Litigation Paralegal

Overview

Litigation Paralegal position at Poole Huffman. In-office role requiring 5+ years of paralegal experience, strong writing skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage litigation and creditors’ rights matters.

Business Litigation:

• Manage litigation, including calendaring and following up on deadlines
• Draft complaints, discovery requests and responses, and manage document productions
• Draft correspondence and communicate with clients, opposing counsel, witnesses, and experts
• Assemble exhibits for depositions and other required pleadings
• Prepare required pleadings and other documents for court filing, including e-filing, and serve as required
• Draft required documents
• Prepare evidence for attorney at trial

Creditors’ Rights:

• Develop and implement a tailored collection strategy, including investigating debts and locating debtors
• Communicate with debtors and clients
• Draft demand letters
• Prepare and file lawsuits and garnishments
• Prepare default judgments and place liens
• Review client materials
• Record payments
• Manage deadlines
• Calendar for extensive caseload

Administration:

• General case management, including calendaring and following up on deadlines
• Prepare items for mailing, affix postage, make copies, scan documents, and organize files
• Prepare documents for court filing and service on all parties, as required
• Maintain regular communication with the client regarding case status
• Answer phone calls as necessary
• Screen prospective clients

• Experience with legal research
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• 5 years' experience as a paralegal
• Full time
• Good work ethic
• Highly professional
• Detail oriented
• Familiarity with legal software
• Smaller firm experience a plus

Poole Huffman is a boutique law firm representing Georgia businesses in litigation involving business law, contracts, real estate, commercial debt collection, judgment collection, creditors’ rights, and defamation. We have 27 employees and are poised to grow rapidly over the next 5 years.