Senior Paralegal

Senior Paralegal role at Burnham Law

Join Burnham Law Firm as a Full-Time Senior Paralegal and elevate your career in a dynamic legal environment! Collaborate with seasoned attorneys and paralegals, sharpen your skills, and play a vital role in shaping our legal strategies from the comfort of your own space. This is a hybrid role with a 3‑day in‑office requirement, coordinating schedules to maintain an efficient in‑office presence while allowing remote work flexibility, ensuring a smooth workflow and effective team collaboration.

Salary range: $75,000–$95,000 per year.

• Location:
  
  Fort Collins, Westminster, Centennial, or Colorado Springs
• Must be willing and able to travel to multiple offices as needed

You will receive great benefits such as Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Snack/Drink Room.

The Senior Paralegal (BLF-1) is the first level in the Senior Paralegal Career track and is responsible for providing advanced paralegal support across assigned matters while leading a small team. This role has a billable hour requirement and is designed for a high‑performing paralegal who can deliver strong work product at pace, manage competing priorities, and operate effectively with a small team.

The BLF-1 role is intended to be a growth position with an opportunity to progress to Senior Paralegal (BLF-2) as business needs evolve and team structure expands.

• Provide advanced paralegal support across assigned matters, ensuring accurate, high‑quality, on‑time deliverables and consistent quality control.
• Draft, format, proofread, and coordinate legal documents and matter materials (e.g., correspondence, filings support, discovery materials, contract/matter support documents) in accordance with established standards.
• Maintain matter files and systems, including calendars, deadlines, task lists, trackers, and document repositories, ensuring information is organized, current, and accessible.
• Coordinate the flow of information among attorneys and other staff, clients, opposing parties, and any other person applicable to obtain required inputs and keep matters progressing efficiently.
• Manage document‑intensive workflows, including document collection, organization, version control, production coordination, and audit‑ready recordkeeping.
• Proactively identify risks to deadlines or quality and escalates early with recommended solutions.
• Consistently hit billable‑hour and transfer requirements, including timely and accurate time entry.
• Prioritize effectively across competing deadlines to balance output and quality, communicating constraints and resource needs in advance.
• Lead and support a small team of paralegals and legal assistants through daily direction, work allocation, prioritization, and follow‑through.
• Coach team members and conduct quality review to improve work product, consistency, and confidence.
• Support onboarding and training; reinforce use of templates, checklists, standard operating procedures and workflows.
• Promote a positive, accountable team environment by setting expectations, addressing issues promptly, and escalating performance or resourcing concerns as needed.
• Coordinate coverage and balance workloads to maintain service levels during peak periods, absences, or shifting priorities.
• Use and improve templates, SOPs, and guides.
• Partner and collaborate with the Senior Paralegal team to align priorities, capacity, process updates, and consistent execution across matters.
• Other duties as assigned.

• High School Diploma or equivalent required;
  Associate's/Bachelor's Degree or Paralegal Certificate preferred.
• Minimum of three to five years of relevant work experience in the legal field.
• Deep knowledge of legal procedures and research.
• Highly organized, detail‑oriented, and able to work in a high‑pressure and exciting environment.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills as well as excellent proofreading skills.
• Ability to prioritize, multi‑task, and work efficiently both independently and as part of a team.
• Possess broad knowledge of daily paralegal tasks.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel and…