Austin, TX

Insurance Defense Paralegal

A thriving Austin law firm is searching for an experienced Paralegal to join their team.

Qualifications:

A successful candidate will have at least 5 years of insurance defense litigation experience.

Essential Job Functions include:

  • Review and analyze pleadings, contracts, and discovery
  • Maintain calendar and case docketing system
  • Prepare draft pleadings, motions, deposition notices, discovery requests, responses and objections
  • Prepare correspondence, status reports, and pre-mediation and pre-trial reports for clients
  • Prepare attorneys for hearings, depositions, mediations, and trials including notebooks
  • Review and summarize depositions
  • Review medical chronologies and medical expense recaps
  • Perform legal research and interpret local, state, and federal laws, statutes and case law
  • Meet with clients and expert witnesses
  • E-file legal documents, initiate and monitor record orders, prepare draft subpoenas and depositions
  • Prepare draft jury charges, witness lists and exhibit lists
  • Attend pre-trial and trials and assist with voir dire and exhibits.

Additional Qualification Requirements:

  • 5+ years of insurance defense litigation
  • Bachelor’s degree and/or paralegal certificate
  • Experience working with Word, Excel and Adobe Pro
  • Experience with billing and ABA task codes

To be considered, email your resume to austin@attorneyresource.com