Compensation: 50000-55000
Experienced Workers' Compensation Legal Assistant
Job Description
Our client is seeking an experienced Legal Assistant to join their team. This firm is a premier personal injury & worker' compensation law firm with cases throughout Ohio.
You will provide overall support and work closely with their Workers' Compensation Attorneys. This firm's main office is centrally located in Cleveland and they will give you opportunities to work remotely when necessary. They offer a fantastic working environment, competitive pay, and room for growth. Some experience in personal injury is required. The applicant also needs to be very tech savvy.
Responsibilities:
- Responding to and propounding written discovery
- Managing the docket for a busy schedule of Administrative law hearings
- Ability to contact medical records providers to acquire claimant medical records and organization of these documents
- Scheduling and summarizing depositions
- Review and summarizing discovery responses
- Preparing meet-and-confer letters.
- Filing various litigation motions (like discovery motions)
- Pre-trial court filings
- Other pre-trial and pre-hearings activities
Qualifications: - Tech savvy (preferably with case management software experience)
- Previous experience as a legal assistant
- Experience in personal injury or workers' compensation law
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (namely Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Experience filing and e-filing documents
- Deadline and detail-oriented under time pressure
Company Description This firm is a successful and growing personal injury and workers' compensation law firm that is looking to add talented, hard-working people looking for long-term employment to their already successful team.