Location: Admin • Perth Amboy, New Jersey
Employment Type: Full-Time
Minimum Experience: Experienced
Compensation: $60,000-$75,000
Description
We seek a Personal Injury Legal Assistant/Paralegal to join our personal injury team. If you are committed
to winning, maximizing client recovery, and improving our client’s quality of life, this is your Firm!
The successful candidate will possess and be responsible for the following:

• Provide administrative support to the lawyer to enhance law office effectiveness.
• Communicating with clients, law offices, insurance adjusters, medical offices, and experts
• Assist in preparing for depositions, mediations, arbitrations, and trial.
• Manage all prelitigation and Litigation matters and a handle a 75 client caseload.
• Prepare and file complaints, motions, briefs, and arbitration statements; prepare special packages, discovery demands, and answers to interrogatories.
• Review the discovery provided and summarize deposition testimony.
• Compose e-mails and correspondence.
• Monitor deadlines and be proficient in maintaining the law office calendar.
• Prepare disbursement of settlement funds and request checks from the accounting department
• Meet, greet and answering inquiries from potential new clients.
• Manage prelitigation and Litigation documents.
• Assist with trial preparations.
• Manager and handle medical records.

The successful candidate will possess the following requirements:

• At least five years of working experience as a Plaintiff Personal Injury Paralegal/Legal Assistant.
• Familiarity with New Jersey e-courts and N.J. court rules and legal procedures.
• Satisfactory knowledge of the day-to-day operations of a law office
• Computer literacy with proficiency in M.S. Office and Dropbox
• Must be bilingual – Fluency in the English and Spanish languages, both verbally and in writing is preferred.
• Excellent secretarial and organizational skills
• Ability to juggle multiple activities and work under pressure.
• Must be willing and able to work in a fast-paced office setting.

Benefits include medical, vision, dental, FSA, life, long-term disability insurance, 401K plan match, and paid time off policy. Bonuses, birthday lunches, holiday parties, and picnics. We have season tickets to the New Jersey Devils if you love hockey!

We take care of our clients; they take care of us! If you want the make a difference, we want you!

To learn more about our company and employment opportunities review our career site www.garcesgrabler.com. Please submit a cover letter and resume to employment@garcesgrabler.com

Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $60,000.00 – $75,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Travel reimbursement
• Vision insurance
• Wellness program

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Travel requirement:

• No travel

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Perth Amboy, NJ: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Required)

Experience:

• Microsoft Office: 5 years (Required)
• Litigation (Personal Injury): 5 years (Required)

Language:

• Spanish (Required)

Apply Here: https://www.click2apply.net/zWzkznIdrLWYwhlAWtzOkJ