Global Paralegal
About the role
Are you driven by the details, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks?
Do you thrive in a role where your work directly advances important cases? Can you bring order and accountability to a fast-paced legal environment? Are you excited about making a real impact in nursing home and personal injury law? When faced with a challenge, do you get excited or run away?
About the Firm
Pleasant Law, PLLC is a plaintiff-side law firm focused on nursing home abuse and personal injury cases, focusing on providing justice and alleviating the suffering of those wronged by negligence and misconduct. Thomas Pleasant, our lead attorney, is celebrated for his rigorous pursuit of just outcomes and his ability to bring even the most challenging cases to favorable jury verdicts.
Our practice focuses on medical cases involving serious/catastrophic injury and wrongful death in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and hospitals. We serve clients primarily in North Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky, with a commitment to providing personalized attention and intensive focus on each case. Our firm is currently experiencing significant case volume, creating a need for strong operational support to keep cases progressing efficiently. Our goal is to enable the attorney to dedicate more time to high-value legal work by improving case operations. Our firm is known for its thoroughness in investigating every detail, from medical records to staff histories in nursing home cases, making us formidable advocates in and out of the courtroom.
Role Overview
The role of the Global Paralegal at Pleasant Law, PLLC is critical in maintaining case flow and supporting our mission to deliver justice for vulnerable clients. As the backbone of our case management, this position was created to alleviate the administrative burden on our attorneys, enabling them to focus on advocating for our clients. Your efforts will ensure that our practice operates smoothly and cases are handled with the utmost diligence and care, ultimately contributing to successful client outcomes. This is a high-impact role created to relieve significant operational pressure from the attorney and ensure cases move forward without delay.
What you’ll do:
- Case Management: Track each case from sign-up through litigation to resolution, ensuring deadlines and milestones are met.
- Calendar Management: Oversee discovery and filing deadlines, ensuring all dates are well-documented and tracked.
- Medical Records Management: Coordinate the ordering, tracking, and follow-up of medical records, ensuring all are received and in order.
- Document Management: Handle the organization and preparation of legal documents, ensuring everything is filed accurately.
- Client Communication: Serve as a point of contact for clients, providing updates and responding to inquiries with professionalism.
- Scheduling: Organize depositions, mediations, and court proceedings, ensuring all parties are informed and prepared.
- Litigation Support: Assist attorneys with discovery response, motion preparation, and trial preparation as needed.
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