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Frank Winston Crum Insurance · 2 days ago

Legal Assistant

Clearwater, FL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Frank Winston Crum Insurance is a growing company that provides Workers' Compensation and General Liability policies. They are seeking a full-time Legal Assistant to provide legal and administrative assistance to staff counsel in litigation matters involving property, bodily injury, and construction defect claims throughout Florida.

Insurance

Hiring Manager

Gina Hofferica

Responsibilities

Assists with reception duties as necessary, including answering and screening calls, taking messages, and answering routine questions

Receives, verifies, and organizes critical and non-critical paperwork and documents

Files and serves documents in compliance with Florida and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Ensures compliance with all local Court rules

Performs scheduling of litigation events, including inspections, hearings, depositions, and trials

Calendars events and tasks as necessary for litigation matters

Manages attorney’s calendars

Advises staff counsel of upcoming due dates and priority issues

Develops draft pleadings and shells for review by assigned staff counsel

Prepares drafts of documents, affidavits, and other routine correspondence

Maintains electronic and hard copy case files and databases

Retrieves records and data as directed

Prepares documents for scanning, printing, and otherwise

Coordinates with outside litigation vendors, including certain aspects of invoicing and payments

Qualification

Law firm experienceLitigation supportDocument management softwareMicrosoft Office 365Case management softwareCommunication skillsOrganizational skillsTime management

Required

Minimum of 5 (five) years of law firm experience with defense-oriented litigation

Experience with construction defect, property, premises liability, and bodily injury claims

Working knowledge of Microsoft office (365 or similar), including extensive knowledge of Outlook, Word, and Excel

Preferred

Associate's degree and experience working with multiple attorneys preferred

Experience with law firm case management software, experience with Clio and/or Faster Law preferred

Experience with document and ESI management software

Benefits

Health Insurance is zero dollar paycheck cost for employee's coverage and only one-hundred-ninety-five dollars a month for family!

Dental and Vision Insurance

Short Term Disability and Term Life Insurance at no cost to the employee

Long Term Disability and Voluntary Term Life Insurance

Supplemental insurance plans such as Accidental, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal Services and Pet Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan where FrankCrum matches 100% of the first 4% the employee contributes, and the employee is immediately vested in the employer match

Employee Assistance Program at no cost to the employee

Flexible Spending Accounts for Medical and Dependent Care Reimbursement

Health Savings Account funded by FrankCrum

Paid time off and holiday pay

Education reimbursement

PTO cash out

Tickets at Work

Access to the Corporate America Family Credit Union

Employee and client referral bonus programs

Disaster Relief Fund for employees