Foreclosure - Paralegal

Padgett Law Group; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks of PTO

Paid parental leave

401k with company match

Flexible work schedules

Health insurance options

Job summary

Padgett Law Group in Atlanta, Georgia is seeking a legal support professional to assist attorneys and manage client communications. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills, strong attention to detail, and a commitment to exceptional customer service.

This position offers a collaborative work environment and involves drafting legal documents, conducting research, and maintaining relationships with clients. Candidates with experience in legal document preparation and proficiency in relevant software are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.
• Must be able to work well in a team-oriented manner.
• Attention to detail and organizational skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Draft legal documents such as motions and affidavits.
• Provide exceptional customer service to clients.
• Maintain relationships with business associates and clients.
• Research and analyze legal sources.
• Prepare and file legal documents with the court.

Skills

Communication skills

Exceptional customer service

Organizational skills

MS Office proficiency

Internet research

Legal process understanding

Tools

LPS

Tempo

Vendorscape

Job description

Description

Padgett Law Group (PLG) is an elite, full service creditors' rights law firm with practices in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Alabama, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Illinois. Additionally, PLG offers national bankruptcy, replevin, and loss mitigation services. The firm’s practice provides exclusive representation to institutional clients such as lenders, mortgage servicers, credit unions, banks, hedge funds, investors and other financial services industry stakeholders. Leveraging technology in our partnerships with forward-thinking clients gives PLG the ability to focus on the aggressive management and processing of delinquent or under performing loans, providing our clients with an edge when curing or resolving these complex legal matters. In 2019, PLG was recognized by The M Report, a leading default services industry publication, as a Top 25 Company to Work For.

?At Padgett Law Group, our mission is simple: to attract and retain the most talented individuals within our industry while delivering high-quality legal services to our clients. We understand our crucial role as our clients strive to provide an ethical and empathetic experience. We contribute to that through our long-standing and recognizable firm culture that is visible during every interaction with PLG—and amongst ourselves. At PLG, we stand on our decades-long tradition of merit, respect, hard work, and excellent results, and we use that foundation for every service we provide. As a firm, we believe that our mission can only be truly realized through investment in our core values of People, Precision, and Performance.

At Padgett Law Group, we're not just looking for talented employees to join our growing team. We're looking for leaders who cultivate those around them and contribute to our path forward; we're looking for individuals who appreciate our culture and commit to our shared goals; we're looking for people who want to be more than employees, processors, or paper pushers.

Our vision is to build the most compelling law firm that is home to the industry’s best talent, as we are today and as we grow in the future.

What’s in it for you?

• 4 weeks of PTO from day one (which increases with tenure)
• Paid Parental and Grandparent Leave
• 7 Paid Company Holidays and your birthday off every year
• Full suite of healthcare insurance options including health, dental, vision, STD, LTD, Accident, Critical Illness, Voluntary Life and AD&D coverage, and more
• Company-covered Term Life Insurance, AD&D Insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
• 401k (with company match)
• Extensive Training and Development Opportunities
• Flexible work schedules including in-office, hybrid, and remote working capabilities
• And more!

Essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Drafting, preparing, assignments, motions, affidavits, and various other legal documents.
• Ensuring timely, courteous, and thorough responses to a heavy volume of email correspondence.
• Developing and maintaining congenial relationships with business associates and clients.
• Providing exceptional customer service to clients at every level of interaction.
• Providing support to attorneys in a high volume, time sensitive atmosphere.
• Preparation and filing of status updates prior to scheduled hearing
• Providing regular and timely client status updates, as well as continual follow-up on outstanding documents and or services.
• Review expired Notices of Default and communicate with the client to ensure most updated figures have been received
• Monitor for executed client declarations
• File client declarations with the court
• Researches and analyzes law sources such as statutes, recorded judicial decisions, legal articles, treaties, constitutions, and legal codes.
• Prepares legal documents such as briefs, pleadings, appeals, contracts, initial and amended articles of incorporation, stock certificates and other securities, buy-sell agreements, closing papers and binders, deeds, and trust instruments for review, approval, and use by VP, general counsel.
• Investigates facts and law of case to determine causes of action and to prepare case accordingly.
• Performs other clerical duties such as scheduling appointments, providing information to callers, taking dictation, composing and typing routine correspondence, and reading and routing incoming mail
• Prepares affidavits of documents and maintains document file

Requirements

• Experience with client systems such as LPS, Tempo, Vendorscape and others is preferred.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be committed to providing exceptional customer service.
• Ability to communicate courteously and effectively with borrower, 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.
• Attention to detail is a must.
• High-level proficiency in MS Office suite.
• Proficiency in internet research activities.
• Good understanding of the legal process surrounding foreclosure preferred