Position: Litigation Paralegal/Legal Assistant
Location: Bethesda, MD
Responsibilities:
• File court pleadings electronically in the State, Federal, and Bankruptcy Courts in Maryland, D.C., and Virginia.
• Access and review on-line court dockets in Maryland, D.C., and Virginia, and retrieve information.
• Contact various clerk offices to secure assistance from the clerk's office to ascertain the status of a filing, or to request information or instructions on how to perform a certain filing.
• Organize trial exhibits and indexes to be filed with the Court and for trials.
• Preparing and filing Court forms for General District Courts for the Commonwealth Virginia and the District Courts for the State of Maryland.
•Work closely with process servers, track the status of service of process and ensure that affidavits of service are timely received and filed with the Court.
• Experience preparing court pleadings for purposes of collecting on judgments.
Position Requirements:
• Prior/current litigation and real estate experience
• Electronic filing experience with various courts
• Experience putting together TOCs and TOAs and organizing trial exhibits
• Familiarity with the process of obtaining alternative means of services and investigative services, such as ordering "skip trace" searches on defendants and serving the state corporation commissions.