Legal Secretaries and Paralegals in New Orleans, Louisiana
Legal Secretaries and Paralegals – New Orleans, LA
Special Counsel, the nation’s largest legal-specific staffing company, has a variety of legal and administrative positions available in the Greater New Orleans area. Email resumes as a MS Word document to Legal Placement Director Andrea Pieri at scpieri@cox.net for professional, courteous and effective representation.
Small CBD firm seeking asbestos defense legal secretary. Must be proficient with e-filing and those with asbestos experience will be given top priority. Some paralegal duties as well. Excellent working environment, nice attorneys and office staff. Paid parking and medical!
Temp-to-hire or direct hire: CBD firm adding combo paralegal/legal secretary. Areas of practice include civil litigation, insurance defense, employment defense, construction defects defense, and a small amount of criminal defense & plaintiff work. Paralegal certification a plus but not required for right candidate. Hours flexible as long as you stick to set schedule! Must be proficient in Word Perfect, MS Word and Outlook. Duties include preparing pleadings and correspondence, discovery and legal filing. Salary DOE.
Mid-sized CBD defense firm seeking tort paralegal. Areas of practice are business, commercial litigation, employment law and construction law. Must be proficient in WordPerfect and Microsoft Word. Salary DOE, full benefits.
Small Metairie defense firm seeking top notch insurance defense legal secretary. Preferred candidates will have 10+ years of insurance defense experience, stellar references and extremely stable work history. Excellent benefits package including 100% paid medical and free parking. Salary DOE.
Metairie defense firm seeking insurance defense paralegal. Certification and degree a plus, but will consider those with extensive insurance defense experience. Full benefits including paid parking!
Mid-sized defense firm seeking Legal Nurse Consultant – RN (or LPN) plus paralegal experience required. Those with only one or the other will not be considered, must have combination of both nurse and paralegal experience for this position. Initial hiring salary $45-50K DOE plus excellent benefits package. MUST currently live in southern Louisiana area or have pre-planned date of relocation to Greater New Orleans area occurring within next few weeks to be considered for this position.
Expectations:
1. Must meet Firm Expectation to record at least 1808 hours per year, whether in case specific billable hours, planned client development or other firm required tasks;
2. Must maintain responsibility for firm tasks as defined in Legal Nurse Consultant Job Description; and,
3. Must actively participate in all firm gatherings and meetings, and support legal team as necessary.
Capabilities:
1. Must have excellent communication skills, both oral and written;
2. Must work well with a team consisting of attorneys, paralegals, nurses and the administrative staff;
3. Must have the ability to balance a number of tasks in an efficient fashion using good time management principals;
4. Must develop knowledge and understanding of legal concepts, medical terminology, procedures and the rules of various courts and other official agencies;
5. Must develop familiarity with legal documents, including ability to enhance with medical analyses; and
6. Must be proficient with computers and related software, including knowledge and experience in using Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook software.
Duties and Responsibilities:
A. General Work Requirements
1. Organize and prioritize assignments;
2. Calendar and comply with deadlines;
3. Work independently; delegate/supervise as appropriate;
4. Ability to work effectively under pressure; and
5. Must enter time logged in performing case specific billable hours, planned client development or other firm required tasks into the firm’s computerized billing system database on a daily basis.
B. Legal-specific requirements:
1. Identify relevant medical records, hospital policies and procedures, and other essential documents to be reviewed;
2. Review, summarize and analyze medical records (per Medical Records Review Guidelines process);
3. Identify the applicable standards of medical care;
4. Identify case specific deviations and adherences to those standards;
5. Identify factors that caused or contributed to the alleged damages/injuries;
6. Research medical literature related to case medical issues;
7. Research and analyze validity and reliability of research studies
relied upon by all parties;
8. Prepare global analysis of medical aspect of case;
9. Identify necessary medical witnesses;
10. Prepare questions for meetings with medical witnesses;
11. Attend interviews/meetings with medical witnesses;
12. Prepare summary of meetings with medical witnesses;
13. Review, summarize and incorporate medical witnesses’ depositions into global analysis;
14. Review/contribute to client evaluation reports, to ensure accuracy of medical facts/analysis;
15. Draft interrogatories relevant to medical case issues;
16. Investigate/recommend expert witnesses;
17. Confirm engagement of expert witnesses & maintain rapport with their assistants;
18. Prepare draft position papers for Medical Review Panels;
19. Review and update witness lists from medical witness standpoint;
20. Assist with/comment on to help support/refute medical witness testimony during trial;
21. Recommendations for development of medical library, as would assist with your medical case analyses.
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