Status: Contract Assignment
Duration: 4 to 6 months to start, good chance of extension
Role: Legal Assistant - Liens Dept
Location: 100 % Onsite
Full-time hours: M-F, 35 to 40/week
Pay Rate: $20-$25/hour
Benefits:
- Medical Benefits - after 30 days of contracting
- No 401K during contract duration
- No Vacation time during contract duration
- No Holiday Time during contract duration
- Five (5) sick days per calendar year
Key to the role:
- Recent Bachelors Grads - 2023 or 2024
- Interested in the legal field
- Open to working 100% onsite in NYC
Overview:
A lien legal assistant (or legal assistant specializing in liens) helps attorneys and legal teams manage all the paperwork, research, and coordination involved with liens.
Make sure everything about a lien is accurate, documented, and processed properly.
Responsibilities:
1. Document Preparation
- Drafts and files lien notices, releases, satisfactions, and other related legal forms.
- Prepares supporting documentation for attorneys and clients.
2. Lien Research
- Searches public records to identify existing liens on properties or assets.
- Verifies lien validity, status, and priority.
3. Communication
- Interfaces with clients, title companies, lienholders, and courts.
- Requests or sends lien payoffs, releases, or other necessary documentation.
4. Tracking and Management
- Maintains lien tracking logs to ensure deadlines (like filing or release dates) are met.
- Monitors outstanding liens and helps coordinate their resolution or settlement.
5. Court and Filing Support
- Files liens with the proper county recorder or court.
- May assist in filing motions or paperwork for lien enforcement or removal.
6. Litigation Support
- Helps gather evidence and prep case files if the lien is being disputed in court.
- Assists in judgment enforcement if the lien is based on a legal ruling.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree is preferred, and recent graduates are encouraged to apply.
- Understanding legal language and principles, research methods, court pleadings and processes, and other related matters is a plus.
- Adept at learning and using legal software.
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, and to exercise discretion and good judgment.
- Seniority Level
- Entry level
- Industry
- Law Practice
- Legal Services
- Employment Type
- Contract
- Job Functions
- Administrative
- Skills
- Liens
- Litigation Support
- Research Methods
- Legal Software
- Confidentiality
- Attention to Detail
- Organization Skills
- Written Communication
- Document