RBPRSLLC is looking for candidates to fill the position of Family Law Paralegal. On-Site position in Kirkland, WA. No visa sponsorships supported, no agencies please.
What is it for you:
- Represent clients in family law cases, including divorce, child custody disputes, and domestic matters.
- Develop and implement legal strategies tailored to client needs, adapting as cases evolve.
- Negotiate settlements, attend court hearings, mediations, and trials to advocate for clients.
- Stable, growing company with tremendous opportunity for career advancement
- Competitive compensation and benefits
What You Will Be Doing:
- Interface with clients, witnesses, experts, opposing counsel and their staff.
- Comfortable as client’s main contact, attending client meetings, and track and record client billings and expenses.
- Compose, prepare, and answer correspondence with clients and case-related experts.
- Calendaring, reminders, and scheduling management for ~35-45 cases
- Interact with courts regarding hearings, motions etc.
- Draft a variety of legal documents: petitions, summons, subpoenas, motion pleadings, declarations, court orders, parenting plans, discovery and other documents as needed.
- Assist with trial preparation including the assembly of exhibits, witness binders, and court filings.
- Prepare and review discovery, including answers to interrogatories and requests for production requests.
- Assist lawyers in the preparation of depositions, hearings, trials, and conferences.
- Organize and analyze large volumes of financial documents, including preparing asset/debt spreadsheets.
Draft child support worksheets
Experience You Will Need:
- 3+ years of family law experience under an attorney in a law firm setting.
- Comfortable with billable hour requirements and delegating tasks to legal assistant.
- Comfortable with practice management systems, billings systems etc.
- Excellent organizational, time-management and customer service skills
- Paralegal professional certification or advanced paralegal education.
- Talented communicator and writer.
- Understanding of the nuances related to family law (with a basic understanding of the court procedures in King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties)
Salary: $75,000 - $95,000/year