Legal Assistant (Primarily Home)

This role performs specialized legal support and administrative duties. You will report to a Manager of Legal Services.

Experience with CT, NY, MA, NJ, RI, PA laws is necessary.

In this primarily home-based role, you will spend the majority of your time working from home. On occasion you may be asked to travel to an office location for in person engagement activities such as team meetings, trainings, and
culture events.

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Position Compensation Range:

$25.00 - $36.05

Pay Rate Type:

Hourly

Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location. Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.

Primary Accountabilities

• Perform research and prepare background information as requested. 

• Receive and respond to all types of inquiries and relay messages.  

• Complete task independently. 

• Manage calendars, including court and other file-related appearances, appointments, internal and external meetings.  

• Schedule and coordinate tasks for file handlers and themselves for future file-related activities and monitors the progress of those activities.  

• Perform electronic mail handling and distribution functions.  

• Screen and respond to incoming mail to relay and clarify information, coordinate file handler activities and otherwise facilitate file handling.  

• Generate various types of legal and claims correspondence.  

• Work with file handlers to ensure delivery of documents, and other items to courts, opposing counsel, experts and others. 

• Contact and schedule opposing counsel, witnesses, experts, court reporters, clients, and others necessary for the coordination of investigation, discovery, depositions, meetings, independent medical examinations and trials.  

• Perform data entry, collection of information, and review of initial materials for intake and setup of new matters. 

• Perform tasks related to payments and closing files.  

• Participate in projects and committees. 

• Leverage knowledge of electronic legal database and claim management system to support file handler. 

• Assist with training of unit employees.  

• Administer specific divisional programs, working with vendors as needed and conducts special project work as assigned.  

• Coordinate collection of claim information to respond to inquiries from other divisions.  

• Responsible for maintaining and updating procedural documents and divisional contact information within systems for the division.  

• Organizing, coordinating and performing claim administrative workflow and processing tasks, as well as understanding of the stages of litigation and the various types of legal documents within litigation. 

  

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support, or service.

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service.

• Demonstrated experience performing legal support duties including interacting with members of the judiciary, opposing and co-counsel, clients, and expert and lay witnesses.

• Demonstrated experience working with confidential documents and situations.

• Demonstrated experience with various PC software appli