Personal Injury Legal Assistant Paralegal - Trenton

Job Description

We are looking for a bilingual (English/Spanish) legal assistant/paralegal to join our personal injury team. If you are committed to winning, maximizing client recovery, and improving our client’s quality of life, this is your place!

The successful candidate will possess and be responsible for the following:

• Provide administrative support to the lawyer to enhance law office effectiveness.
• Communicating with clients, law offices, insurance adjusters, medical offices, and experts.
• Assist in preparing for depositions, mediations, arbitrations, and trials.
• Prepare and file complaints, motions, briefs, arbitration statements, prepare specials packages, discovery demands, answers to interrogatories, review discovery provided and summarize deposition testimony.
• Compose e-mails and correspondence.
• Monitor deadlines and be proficient in maintaining the law office calendar
• Prepare disbursement of settlement funds and request checks from the accounting department
• Answering inquiries from potential new clients
• Responsible for Prelitigation and Litigation experience.
  
  

The successful candidate will possess the following requirements:

• At least five years of working experience as a legal assistant or litigation paralegal experience in personal injury.
• Familiarity with New Jersey e-courts and N.J. court rules and legal procedures.
• Satisfactory knowledge of day-to-day operations of a law office
• Computer literacy with proficiency in MS Office/
• Strong case management experience including, SmartAdocate.
• Fluency in the English and Spanish language, both verbally and in writing required.
• Excellent secretarial and organizational skills
• Ability to juggle multiple activities and work under pressure
• Must be willing and able to work in a fast-paced office setting
  
  

Benefits include medical, vision, dental, FSA, life, long-term disability insurance, 401K plan match, and paid time off policy.

We take care of our clients they take care of us! If you want the make a difference, we want you!

Company Description

When the people of New Jersey want to find a lawyer, they find us. Garces, Grabler & LeBrocq was founded in 1991 primarily as a personal injury law firm. Today, we have diversified our practice to provide a broad range of legal services. We are one of the few multilingual law firms with more than 100 employees and nearly 35 lawyers representing clients in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

Compassionate, Knowledgeable, and Driven Lawyers

The law firm Garces, Grabler & LeBrocq matches each attorney with the client's needs—a personalized approach we’ve found to be a win-win. Our lawyers work as a team to provide expert legal representation for any and all legal matters.

During our initial one-on-one consultation, we’ll help you make the right decisions to resolve your specific legal matter. We use a common-sense approach to ensure effectiveness and affordability. At Garces, Grabler, LeBrocq, we have the resources you can expect of a large law firm while providing the personal attention you deserve.

When the people of New Jersey want to find a lawyer, they find us. Garces, Grabler & LeBrocq was founded in 1991 primarily as a personal injury law firm. Today, we have diversified our practice to provide a broad range of legal services. We are one of the few multilingual law firms with more than 100 employees and nearly 35 lawyers representing clients in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Compassionate, Knowledgeable, and Driven Lawyers The law firm Garces, Grabler & LeBrocq matches each attorney with the client's needs—a personalized approach we’ve found to be a win-win. Our lawyers work as a team to provide expert legal representation for any and all legal matters. During our initial one-on-one consultation, we’ll help you make the right decisions to resolve your specific legal matter. We use a common-sense approach to ensure effectiveness and affordability. At Garces, Grabler, LeBrocq, we have the resources you can expect of a large law firm while providing the personal attention you deserve.