Legal Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

• Are you ready to be challenged on a daily basis?
• Do you have the right mix of conscientiousness, accuracy, and team spirit?
• Do you want top-notch training from the best in the industry?
• Do you want to be part of the team where all of us work towards a common goal of providing the best family law representation to our West Michigan clients?

Then look no further!

If that’s you, we’d like you to join our team. Kraayeveld Family Law is looking to add a Legal Assistant to our team.

As a Legal Assistant, you will be assisting our attorneys and paralegals with the administrative tasks to provide our clients with top-notch legal services.

We have a great team. Everyone loves coming to work every day and working together. We'd like you to be a great fit, and for that reason our hiring process is extensive.

We ask you to participate in a written interview, a Zoom interview, and a team interview.

Compensation : $18 - $22 hourly

$18 - $22 hourly

Responsibilities :

• Process our incoming digital and legal documents
• Process filings and e-filings with various courts
• Provide back up answering of our phones, which includes screening of potential clients' requests for legal services
• Assist with payment processing and collecting
• Assist with sorting and digitalizing voluminous discovery requests
• Data management of our client relations software

Qualifications :

• Conscientious, dependable, and accurate
• Ability to sell; some sales experience in any industry is preferred
• Typing speed of at least 50 WPM
• Excellent phone skills
• Ability to remain friendly and firm when pursuing client payments
• Basic bookkeeping experience is preferred
• We are a divorce and child custody law firm. The job requires you to keep smiling and continue working when the firm also handles emergency situations for the firm’s clients and when our clients express their stress in a very poor way
• Excel at building and maintaining relationships
• Come to work with a positive attitude to make everyone’s day a bit brighter and better. Anyone who talks to you has to feel that you were the most pleasant person they talked to in the past month
• Although we strive to keep our work environment stress-free, our legal assistant often ends up with several tasks, calls, and deadlines at the same time, and you should be able to be responsible for keeping track of it all and getting it all done

About Company

Grand Rapids family lawyers helping clients with divorce and child custody disputes. We go the extra mile for clients and for our team, we share our knowledge with each other and our community.

We are tenacious litigators; we try cases; we are bold and we are fearless. We create better settlements for clients because we know how to fight for clients.

Above all, we are team players. We help each other to create a work environment where everyone shines, reaches their full potential, and loves to come to work every day.

We are located in the historic Boardwalk building, which includes a swimming pool, gym, restaurants, and free on-site parking.

We love our location close to downtown Grand Rapids!

You will be joining a team of five attorneys and eight support staff.