Contract Paralegal

Title : Litigation Paralegal (contract)

Location : Onsite in Chappaqua Crossing, NY

Contract Length : 4 months with potential to extend

Hourly Rate : $30-34

Our client, a healthcare insurance and services company, is seeking a temporary litigation paralegal to assist the Senior Director of Risk Management & Quality Assurance in coordinating the provision of comprehensive risk management services for all insurance, enterprise risk and medico-legal matters relating to the special tasks and activities of the department.

This position will be a full-time contract (40 hours per week, M-F) and is projected to last roughly 4 months with potential to extend.

Candidates should be prepared and willing to working onsite.

Responsibilities :

• Manages the occurrence / potential claims reporting program, closely reviewing and monitoring occurrences / claims and trending issues.
• Responsible for coordination of interviews, proactively gathering involved documentation and ensuring secure, protected and confidential file maintenance for litigated matters.
• Responsible for notifying insurance carriers, claims TPA, physicians and attorneys when lawsuits are received.
• Coordinates document discovery, witness discovery, claims analysis, case management, and case closure.
• Coordinate and schedule high-level meetings and conference calls.
• Receive and coordinate all service of process.
• Manage and coordinate all legal requests for physicians.
• Maintains calendars to include coordination and scheduling of meetings, depositions, conference calls, sends calendar invites and reminders, reserves conference rooms
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree required. Paralegal Certificate preferred.
• 5+ years of paralegal / legal assistant / risk management experience.
• Experience with legal terms, laws and judiciary guidelines experience with medical terminology.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and Power Point) and Adobe Acrobat.
• Notary (preferred).

Skills :

• Communication and Verbal Proficiency
• Interpersonal Skills
• Listening and Communication Skills
• Reporting Skills
• Scheduling
• Presentation Skills, Organization and Time Management
• Collaboration Skills
• Personal Effectiveness / Credibility
• Flexibility
• Technical Capacity
• Stress Management / Composure
3 days ago