Personal Injury Paralegal

The Paralegal assists with: case planning development management legal research interviews clients gathers facts and retrieves information drafts and analyzes legal documents collects, complies and utilizes technical information, to make recommendations to attorney MAJOR DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

1. The PL drafts legal documents, formal discovery requests, notices, interrogatories, motions and summaries of depositions.
2. The PL assists with locating and contacting witnesses, arranges for the interview and evaluation of witnesses, drafts witness declarations in proceedings and pretrial statements and assists with the preparation of witness testimony.
3. The PL may compile and organize trial notebooks, exhibits and files and coordinate the scheduling of witnesses, assists attorneys with witness issues, exhibits and note taking at State Bar trials.
4. The PL drafts formal discovery requests and responses, including special interrogatories, requests for admissions, production demands, deposition notices and motions to compel for the attorney
5. The PL may analyze records and disciplinary files and make recommendations to the attorney as to the disposition of files.
6. The PL performs legal research including statutory and case law and drafts forms, research memoranda, proposed rules, orders and other documents.
7. The PL may prepare summaries of depositions and court transcripts and witness testimony.
8. The PL may perform a number of other similar or related duties which may not be specifically included within this position description, but which are consistent with the general level of the job and the responsibilities described. Salary $75,000 - $90,000 per year