Vernis & Bowling, a regional civil litigation defense firm, seeks a Legal Assistant with a minimum of 1 year of legal experience to join our Workers’ Compensation team.
Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Draft correspondence, pleadings, i.e. motions, subpoenas, notices
- Filing and tracking subpoenas to accurately maintain case files.
- Managing deadlines and coordinating to ensure subpoenas receive timely responses
- E-filling
- Dictation
- Use of Juris for entering time
- Medical records review as needed
- Document management
- Scheduling, calendaring, preparing hearing exhibits and hearing binders
- Manage deadlines timely
- Exhibit workplace professionalism, teamwork
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work under pressure
Critical to success is attention to detail, follow-through, accuracy, communication, and organization. The ideal candidate is someone who is looking to develop their Legal Assistant skills and who wants a long-term career fit.