Foreclosure - Specialist (NC)

Padgett Law Group; Tallahassee (FL); Hybrid; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Padgett Law Group seeks a Foreclosure Specialist with North Carolina experience as we prepare to open a Charlotte office. You will handle drafting and filing of legal documents, respond to high volumes of emails, and maintain strong client and attorney relationships.

The role requires excellent communication, organizational skills, and proficiency with MS Office. You will support attorneys in a fast-paced environment and ensure timely client updates and filings.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Commitment to providing exceptional customer service.
• Ability to communicate courteously and effectively with borrowers, clients, attorneys, and others.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and adapt to change.
• High attention to detail and proficiency in MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Drafting, preparing, assignments, motions, affidavits, and other legal documents.
• Responding to a heavy volume of emails in a timely, courteous manner.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with business associates and clients.
• Providing exceptional customer service to clients at all levels of interaction.
• Supporting attorneys in a high-volume, time-sensitive environment.
• Preparing and filing status updates prior to hearings.
• Providing regular client status updates and follow-up on documents.
• Reviewing Notices of Default and communicating required figures to clients.
• Monitoring for executed client declarations and filing them with the court.

Skills

Verbal and written communication

Customer service

Teamwork

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Multi-tasking

Internet research

Foreclosure knowledge

Tools

MS Office

LPS

Tempo

Vendorscape

Job 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.

Benefits

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!

We are looking for a Foreclosure Specialist with experience in North Carolina as we prepare to open our Charolette office!

The 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

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• 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

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Prolonged time sitting at a desk typing, using, and looking at a computer