📅 Aug 23, 2022
Support U.S.-based small businesses with legal administration, including client intake, CRM and calendar management, correspondence, legal document drafting, and initial review of case records.
Legal Assistant
🕒 4 days ago
📍 🇲🇽 Mexico - Remote🎹 Mid-level📑 Legal Assistant📢 🇪🇸 Spanish Required📢 🇬🇧 English Required💼 Full-Time
Family LawLegal Document DraftingDiscovery CoordinationCourt E-filing
📜 Description
- Support attorneys with divorce, custody, child support, and other domestic relations cases.
- Draft pleadings, motions, correspondence, financial disclosures, and settlement documents.
- Coordinate discovery, organize case records, and prepare exhibits, timelines, and financial summaries.
- File documents electronically and track court dates, litigation deadlines, and case acceptance.
- Schedule hearings, depositions, and client meetings while maintaining attorney calendars.
- Communicate professionally and empathetically with clients, opposing counsel, court personnel, and third parties.
🛠️ Requirements
- Previous experience as a paralegal or legal assistant in a family law practice (a Juris Doctor or licensed attorney background is preferred).
- Hands-on experience drafting pleadings, motions, discovery requests/responses, and financial disclosures for domestic relations cases.
- Strong familiarity with court filing procedures, electronic filing platforms, legal terminology, and litigation deadlines.
- Proficiency with Clio, MyCase, Westlaw, and AI productivity tools such as Claude.
- Multilingual proficiency: Strong written and verbal Spanish & English communication skills required.
- Exceptional organization, document management skills, and ability to manage multiple case deadlines simultaneously.
- High level of discretion, empathy, and confidentiality when handling sensitive client financial and personal information.
✨ Benefits
- Work From Home
- Performance Bonus
Full job description
VirtueStaff is seeking a detail-oriented Paralegal to support a fast-paced family law practice. This role provides comprehensive legal support to attorneys across all stages of domestic relations matters—from initial client intake through case resolution. Key responsibilities include drafting pleadings, motions, and financial disclosures, coordinating discovery, organizing case exhibits, managing court deadlines, and maintaining empathetic, professional communication with clients.
Responsibilities
- Assist attorneys in managing family law cases, including divorce, legal separation, child custody, parenting time, child support, and spousal maintenance.
- Draft legal documents, correspondence, pleadings, motions, notices, affidavits, proposed orders, and settlement agreements.
- Collect, review, and organize financial documentation, including tax returns, bank statements, property records, and business documentation.
- Manage discovery workflows by drafting requests, organizing responses, reviewing incoming documents, and tracking pending items.
- Prepare case files, exhibits, timelines, and financial summaries for hearings, depositions, mediations, and trials.
- Electronically file legal documents with courts and monitor filings for court acceptance.
- Maintain attorney calendars, track court dates and litigation deadlines, and schedule hearings, depositions, and client meetings.
- Communicate professionally and empathetically with clients, opposing counsel, court personnel, and third parties.
Requirements
- Previous experience as a paralegal or legal assistant in a family law practice (a Juris Doctor or licensed attorney background is preferred).
- Hands-on experience drafting pleadings, motions, discovery requests/responses, and financial disclosures for domestic relations cases.
- Strong familiarity with court filing procedures, electronic filing platforms, legal terminology, and litigation deadlines.
- Proficiency with Clio, MyCase, Westlaw, and AI productivity tools such as Claude.
- Multilingual proficiency: Strong written and verbal Spanish & English communication skills required.
- Exceptional organization, document management skills, and ability to manage multiple case deadlines simultaneously.
- High level of discretion, empathy, and confidentiality when handling sensitive client financial and personal information.
Benefits
- Work From Home
- Performance Bonus
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