Paralegal/Legal Assistant

Black Diamond Funding Ventures, LLC is a Legal Funding company located in Sunrise, Florida that is seeking a Legal Assistant to join our legal team! In this position, you will work directly with our in-house attorney and assist in organizing, calendaring, legal research, and pre-suit preparation. Your job duties include maintaining the legal department’s filing system, general administrative tasks, responding to emails and correspondence, and maintaining the office calendar on a daily basis. Our ideal candidate has at least one year of general legal experience, has a strong work ethic, exceptional problem-solving skills, and a meticulous attention to detail. You will perform clerical and administrative functions in order to drive company success and ensure quality workflow as well as legal document review and underwriting duties.

Job Responsibilities:

• Conduct legal research on cases and gather pertinent legal information
• Interpret laws, case ruling and regulations
• Monitor and develop written summaries of proposed and enacted legislation, regulations, court decisions, industry guidelines and other relevant publications
• Assist with pre-suit case preparation
• Maintain detailed calendar on a daily basis
• Draft emails, letters, agreements and other binding documents and correspondence
• Provide secretarial and administrative support such as answering and directing phone calls, making copies, greeting guests, coordinating appointments and meetings, etc.
• Track cases pending in litigation
• Communicate professionally with clients, attorneys, court staff, etc.
• Perform all other office tasks

Requirements:

• Associate’s/Bachelor’s degree or equivalent Paralegal certification
• One year of legal research and writing experience
• Ability to understand and interpret legal documents
• Strong organizational skills and highly detail-oriented
• Ability to work independently, take direction, manage large workloads and meet deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong proofreading skills, with exceptional commend of English grammar, punctuation and spelling
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Outlook, LexisNexis, PACER and other legal research site
• Bi-Lingual or Multi-Lingual is highly preferred

Please email adrienne@blackdiamondfunding.com directly for further details!