Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger seeks to hire seasoned paralegal with significant general litigation and commercial bankruptcy experience
Paralegal Needed! Due to its exploding growth, Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Helsinger has a pressing need to hire a seasoned paralegal with significant general litigation and commercial bankruptcy experience. Competitive salary and benefits. For more information contact recruiting@sfgh.com. Please, no phone calls. The ideal candidate will be able to do most of the following:
General Litigation Practice Support Skills
- Manage case development throughout all phases of litigation, pre-trial investigation and discovery
- Manage dockets and attorney calendaring regarding same
- Coordinate document and evidence collection
- Manage document production
- Review documents and creating chronologies of facts
- Prepare basic discovery responses
- Review discovery responses and documents for responsiveness and privilege
- Prepare privilege logs
- Draft and issue process and coordination of service of process pursuant to the Uniform Deposition and Discovery Act and other relevant statutes
- E-file and hand-file (if necessary) documents in state and federal courts
- Draft basic litigation documents (routine motions and orders, notices)
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Prepare witness notebooks and expert reliance files
- Prepare transcript designations to be used at trial
- Coordinate trial and hearing logistics
- Provide real-time trial assistance
- Cite-check and shepardize case law and statutes to finalize legal documents for different state and federal jurisdictions;
- Manage and use litigation support software programs (e.g., Relativity and/or Concordance)
Bankruptcy Practice Support Skills
- Draft debtor preparation documents (petitions, schedules, etc)
- Draft basic bankruptcy documents (routine motions, fee applications, and more depending on skill set and knowledge)
- All General Litigation Support Skills noted above