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Bankruptcy Paralegal (Litigation)
West Palm Beach, FLOverview:
SourcePro Search is conducting a search for a Litigation Paralegal/Legal Assistant for our client’s busy Bankruptcy Litigation practice group. The ideal candidate will have a Litigation background handling Business and Commercial Litigation. This is a fast-paced, high-volume Bankruptcy Litigation practice where excellent organizational and commercial litigation skills are mandatory.
Your Litigation Paralegal/Legal Assistant Duties & Responsibilities:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
Preferred Education and Experience:
We have great benefits, most of which are effective on your first day:
SourcePro Search is conducting a search for a Litigation Paralegal/Legal Assistant for our client’s busy Bankruptcy Litigation practice group. The ideal candidate will have a Litigation background handling Business and Commercial Litigation. This is a fast-paced, high-volume Bankruptcy Litigation practice where excellent organizational and commercial litigation skills are mandatory.
Your Litigation Paralegal/Legal Assistant Duties & Responsibilities:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
- Familiarity with all aspects of complying with filing requirements and deadlines, including ability to draft pleadings and orders
- Must have experience preparing and e-filing documents including but not limited to complaints, discovery, and motion practice in Federal and/or State Courts (experience in Bankruptcy Court is helpful but not required)
- Coordinate and assist with trial preparations
- Handling multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously
- Heavy calendaring and scheduling for meetings, calls, deadlines, and proactively ensuring deadlines are met within bankruptcy estates
- Preparing and responding to extensive discovery
- Document management, organization, retrieval, and production
- Maintain case pleadings, correspondence, discovery, and research for large volume cases
- Prepare and finalize pleadings in accordance with applicable court rules
- Prepare for depositions, i.e., prepare documents electronically and all other discovery related tasks
- Organize and prepare exhibit lists and/or privilege logs
- Other duties assigned
Preferred Education and Experience:
- Minimum of two-to-five years of progressive experience as a Legal Assistant or Paralegal in a Commercial Litigation or Bankruptcy Litigation Practice
- Significant commercial litigation experience is required, including prior experience drafting motions and pleadings, e-filing, and preparing and responding to discovery
- Given that this position is in a bankruptcy department handling bankruptcy litigation, bankruptcy experience is helpful but not a requirement
- Substantial experience working with PDF, Microsoft Word, and office/client management software programs
We have great benefits, most of which are effective on your first day:
- Heavily subsidized health insurance premiums
- Some health plans include Firm paid HSA contributions ranging from $600 and $1,200 annually
- Free dental insurance for employees and inexpensive options for dependents
- Free vision insurance for employees and inexpensive options for dependents
- Tax advantaged account options like Flexible Spending Accounts and Dependent Care Accounts
- Life Insurance, paid by the Firm
- Long-Term Disability Insurance, paid by the Firm
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 10 paid holidays plus 1 floating holiday (in 2023)
- Generous PTO for full-time employees: 0-4 years – 19 days (prorated for first year); >4 to 10 years – 24 days; >10 years – 29 days
- Traditional and Roth 401(k) options from day one. Eligible for discretionary Firm matching contribution after 1 year of service.