Bankruptcy Paralegal

Dunn Law is a Miami business and insolvency firm. One of our partners serves as a Chapter 7 panel bankruptcy trustee in the Southern District of Florida, and the firm represents creditors, committees, assignees, and receivers in bankruptcy cases, assignments for the benefit of creditors under Chapter 727, Florida Statutes, and the litigation that grows out of them.

The Bankruptcy Paralegal keeps that work moving on time and on the record: opening and administering cases, filing through CM/ECF and the Florida E-Filing Portal, owning the deadline calendar, building the factual record behind claims and avoidance actions, and keeping estate records reconciled.

The position requires independent judgment. The paralegal is frequently the first person to identify a discrepancy among the debtor’s schedules, a filed claim, and the estate’s financial records.

• Prepare, proofread, and electronically file motions, applications, notices, objections, reports, and proposed orders through CM/ECF and the Florida E-Filing Portal.
• Calculate and calendar deadlines under the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, local rules, and chambers procedures, confirming each date against the entered order rather than the rule table alone.
• Review incoming court notices daily, route each to the responsible attorney with the applicable deadline identified, and escalates any date at risk in writing.

• Prepare Section 341 meeting materials and confirm debtor production against the estate’s request list before the meeting date.
• Review schedules and financial records for unscheduled assets, transfers, exemption issues, and potential causes of action.
• Maintain the claims register, review proofs of claim for amount, classification, and support, and prepare objection worksheets.
• Assemble interim and final reporting packages, reconciled to the estate bank records.

• Prepare and file proofs of claim, including administrative and reclamation claims under Sections 503(b)(9) and 546(c), with the invoices and contracts that support them.
• Track bar dates, plan and disclosure statement deadlines, and ballot deadlines across an active portfolio.
• Draft stay relief motions, cure and adequate assurance objections, and Rule 2004 examination requests for attorney review.

• Assemble Chapter 727 assignment packages: the assignment agreement, schedules of assets and liabilities, and the petition filed with the circuit court.
• Issue the notice of assignment and claim forms to all known creditors within the statutory window and document the mailing.
• Maintain the claim docket through the filing deadline and support the assignee’s interim reports, liquidation, and final distribution.

• Build preference analyses under Section 547, including the 90 day and one year insider reach back periods, new value and ordinary course data sets, and setoff exposure.
• Assemble the transfer record for fraudulent transfer claims under Sections 548 and 544(b), and track the Section 546 limitations period for every estate.
• Manage demand letters, complaints, service, discovery and document productions, Bates numbering, privilege logs, and exhibits.

• Open matters, run conflicts against the party index, and set the opening deadline calendar within one business day of intake.
• Maintain electronic case files to the firm’s naming conventions so that any team member can locate a document without assistance.
• Record time contemporaneously by the end of each business day, with descriptions sufficient to support a fee application reviewed by the court.

• Three or more years as a paralegal in bankruptcy, insolvency, creditors’ rights, or commercial litigation.
• Working knowledge of Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 practice, petition through closing.
• Demonstrated proficiency with CM/ECF, PACER, and the Florida E-Filing Portal.
• Ability to calculate deadlines independently and explain how a date was derived.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, including reconciliation of two sets of records.
• Disciplined electronic file management in a cloud practice management system.
• Ability to draft correspondence and initial pleadings to a standard that requires editing rather than rewriting.
• Proven discretion with confidential financial and client information.