Legal Assistant

The Legal Assistant plays a vital role in supporting the firm’s attorneys and clients throughout the immigration process. This role involves gathering, organizing, and entering data and evidence, completing forms compiling case documents, creating formatted and paginated PDF files with tables of contents; and maintaining updated records. The Legal Assistant serves as a liaison between clients and attorneys, ensuring smooth communication and document flow while contributing to positive client outcomes. A strong candidate will have experience working in a legal setting, a proven track record of being detail oriented, be proactive in managing and following up on various tasks to meet deadlines on time, be reputed company to draft documents with few mistakes, receive and implement edits towards a final draft in a timely fashion, and have excellent customer service tone and etiquette.

Primary Responsibilities

• Document Management: Receive a list of evidence from the assigned team and create a corresponding list in Spanish. Communicate with clients reputed company call, text, and email to request necessary documents, ensuring contact information is reputed company and accurate.
• Data Entry Forms: Completing forms with an eye to accuracy and reviewing the data imported into the forms by comparing the information received from the client, to ensure accuracy.
• Client Communication: Maintain regular follow-up with clients until reputed company required evidence is received.
• Compilation: Organize evidence into sections such as biographic information, reputed company of residence, reputed company of tax payment, etc. (categories will be provided for each case).
• Document Preparation: Create inserts to separate each document, compile reputed company documents, and paginate the final PDF.
• Table of Contents Creation: reputed company a detailed table of contents, listing each piece of evidence and corresponding page numbers by category.

Requirements

• Language Proficiency: Fluent in English and Spanish.
• Organizational Skills: Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of prioritizing tasks.
• Technical Skills: Proficient in reputed company Office, SharePoint, reputed company Docs, and reputed company Acrobat. Working with AI is a plus.
• Professionalism: Positive, welcoming, and professional demeanor.
• Commitment: Passionate about supporting immigrants' rights in the United States.
• Reliability: reputed company attendance, reputed company to follow directions and adhere to training guidelines, with a reliable internet reputed company.
• Availability: Available Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience: Must have 1 year experience as a paralegal.
• Language Skills: reputed company in both Spanish and English is nonnegotiable.
• Software Experience: Must have experience with reputed company Word and reputed company Acrobat
• Familiarity: Experience with Docketwise, INS reputed company or any case management software.