McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLP · 2 months ago
Foreclosure Legal Assistant
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLP is a law firm specializing in foreclosure processes. The Foreclosure Legal Assistant will manage administrative tasks related to nonjudicial foreclosures, including document preparation, client communication, and case management system updates.
Legal
Responsibilities
Drafting, preparing, and formatting memoranda, correspondence, advertisements/postings, deeds, assignments, and various other legal documents
Ensuring the effective and timely delivery of outgoing mail, messenger deliveries, overnight deliveries, and facsimiles
Fielding calls from borrowers, clients, courts, and other outside parties in a courteous and effective manner
Ensuring timely, courteous, and thorough responses to a heavy volume of email correspondence
Developing and maintaining congenial relationships with business associates and clients
Consistently and accurately updating the firm’s internal case management system, as well as all client systems
Reviewing title reports and recorded documents
Providing exceptional customer service to clients at every level of interaction
Proofreading the legal documents as required
Providing support to attorneys in a high volume, time sensitive atmosphere
Providing regular and timely client status updates, as well as continual follow-up on outstanding documents and or services. Coordination with title contacts to complete outstanding tasks such as recordings and retrieval of missing documents
Assisting with check down of closed, active, and hold files including forwarding invoices of foreclosures fees and costs, creating chronologies, and retrieving documents
Performing other duties and responsibilities as needed
Qualification
Required
Minimum associate degree, Paralegal Certificate, or at least 2 years of experience as a legal assistant
Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
Must be committed to providing exceptional customer service
Ability to communicate courteously and effectively with borrowers, clients, attorneys, other internal employees, and outside parties
Must be able to work with others in a congenial and team-oriented manner
Must possess exceptional organizational skills; the position requires the ability to multi-task and be adaptable to continual change
Ability to read and write at a high level for proof reading and editing purposes
High-level proficiency in MS Office suite
Proficiency in internet research activities
Ability to proficiently operate computer, fax machine, scanner, photocopier, typewriter, and telephone is required
Preferred
Default law firm experience is preferred, but not required
Experience with client systems such as ICE/BKFS, Clairfire, Tempo, Vendorscape and others is preferred
Good understanding of the legal process surrounding foreclosure preferred
Experience with review of title reports and identifying chain of title issues preferred
Benefits
Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
Company
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLP
McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLP is a full service Residential and Commercial Real Estate Legal Services firm with a combined 75 years of experience specializing in: Foreclosure, Bankruptcy, Eviction, Commercial Origination and Workout Transactions, Complex Litigation, Title Curative/Litigation and Closing Services; representing large to small financial institutions and Investors for matters in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington offices to assist our clients with exceptional quality service.