What are the responsibilities and job description for the Family Law and Fiduciary Litigation Paralegal position at Shulman Rogers?
Shulman Rogers is a full-service, 100 attorney law firm with its principal office located in Potomac, Maryland and with branch offices in Baltimore, Tysons Corner, Alexandria, and Washington, D.C. The firm supports regional and local clients and works collaboratively, across practice groups, to respond to all of their legal needs.
Shulman Rogers' Family Law and Fiduciary Litigation Group is seeking an experienced Litigation Paralegal. The successful candidate with 5 years of experience will assume an immediate key role in highly diversified family law and fiduciary litigation matters.
Candidate Must Possess
Shulman Rogers is an EO/AA/VEV/Disabled employer.
Shulman Rogers' Family Law and Fiduciary Litigation Group is seeking an experienced Litigation Paralegal. The successful candidate with 5 years of experience will assume an immediate key role in highly diversified family law and fiduciary litigation matters.
Candidate Must Possess
- Experience drafting basic pleadings, discovery requests and responses, including objections and substantive responses collected from clients, and drafting and serving subpoenas with attorney supervision and guidance.
- Substantive experience organizing, maintaining, and reviewing documents from clients, opposing parties, and third parties for use in discovery, depositions, witness preparation, and trial.
- Experience with performing privilege review of client documents and creation of privilege logs.
- Experience with analyzing document productions and ability to create deficiency charts and analysis, including for drafting discovery deficiency letters.
- Substantive experience with exhibit preparation for depositions, hearings, and trials, in addition to preparing other trial materials, and courtroom presentation/support.
- Ability to conduct witness interviews and summarize key information thoroughly for attorney review.
- Experience with docketing, calculating response deadlines (for example, for discovery responses, motions, and subpoena productions), and updating attorneys calendars in a timely manner.
- Familiarity with Maryland and D.C. rules and procedures, and/or ability to proactively learn same.
- Knowledge and experience with electronic filing (MDEC and CaseFileXpress) in Maryland and D.C.
- A bachelor's degree, paralegal certificate or equivalent experience.
- 5 years of relevant litigation paralegal experience. Strong knowledge of legal procedures, terminology, and court rules related to litigation.
- Excellent verbal, written communication skills, and interpersonal skills, including professionalism when speaking with clients.
- Outstanding organization and attention to detail.
- Demonstrated problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, and the ability to take the initiative necessary to accomplish tasks.
- Ability to work efficiently and thoroughly with time-sensitive projects and deadlines, adaptability to changing priorities and demands, and ability to manage workloads and deadlines for multiple attorneys at one time.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and document management software, and able to effectively use other litigation software.
- Proven legal research skills; proficiency with legal research platforms such as LexisNexis or Westlaw.
Shulman Rogers is an EO/AA/VEV/Disabled employer.