Job Responsibilities
Describe the job role and the day-to-day tasks involved. |
- Assist in drafting and formatting legal documents, including pleadings, discovery, and client correspondence under supervision.
- Support attorneys and senior paralegals in preparing digital materials for virtual hearings, mediations, and court appearances.
- Organize and maintain electronic case files in compliance with firm standards, ensuring all documents are properly uploaded, labeled, and stored.
- Coordinate with third parties such as expert witnessed, process servers, and court personnel.
- Daily AV call with supervisor
- Opening, maintaining, and closing files through (Tools)
- Phone duties will include answering and making calls from / to debtors, clients, courts, sheriff, staff, other parties
- Transcription of all phone calls
- Monitoring of inbound debt recovery inbox
- Emails to debtors, clients and colleagues and courts
- Generation of cost agreements from precedents
- Billing and editing of same
- Preparation of task lists
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Qualifications
Describe the qualifications the staff must have in terms of skills and capabilities |
- Legal terminology knowledge
- Document formatting (pleadings, declarations, discovery templates, letters, etc.)
- Legal document review (spotting incomplete information, inconsistent formatting, or missing fields)
- Data entry & document management (accurate input of case information in CMS, labeling PDFs, version control)
- Calendar support (entering court deadlines or appointments based on instruction
- Email and written communication
- Knowledge of the Spanish language is an advantage but not a requirement.
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Competencies/Personality Traits |
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- Candidates with experience at an Australian law firm will be highly valued
- Excellent attention to detail together with strong verbal and written communication skills;
- Well-developed time management skills;
- A willingness to learn, positive approach and strong initiative;
- Intermediate skills in the MS Office suite (desirable)
- Candidates with experience at an Australian law firm will be highly valued
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