Legal Trainee: Paralegal & Notary Clerk in Training

GRÜTER Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB; Kentucky; Remote; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

GRÜTER Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB in Ohio seeks candidates for training as paralegals and notary clerks. You will gain comprehensive experience in various legal fields, drafting documents, and managing correspondence.

Upon completing your training, you can further your education towards becoming a law clerk. The position offers an intensive training in law office organization and notarial practices, preparing you for a significant role in legal support.

Qualifications

• Training to draft briefs and contracts from dictation.
• Maintaining client-related correspondence independently.
• Knowledge of land, corporate, family, inheritance, and international civil law.

Responsibilities

• Assist notaries with official business.
• Prepare and process notarial documents.
• Supervise the staff as a notary's assistant.

Job description

During your training to become paralegals and notary clerks, you will go through various rotations, such as registry, foreclosure and insolvency, reception, secretariat, notaryship and accounting. As a part of our team, you will learn to draft briefs and contracts from dictation, independently maintain client-related correspondence, create, administer and structure new files as well as generate cost accounting and monitor deadlines and terms.

You will always have a contact who will teach you the ropes, supervise you and be available to answer your questions. After completing training, you will be able to continue studying towards a diploma as a law clerk thanks to your two years of professional experience. You will be intensively trained in subjects such as office organization, cost and fee laws, human resources and foreclosure and will be able to use the skills you learn in the law office setting.

The training to become a notary clerk is multifaceted. You will gain knowledge of land, corporate, family, inheritance, foreclosure and international civil law. After you have learned office organization at the practice, you will gain familiarization with the respective fields of law and will be increasingly trained in drafting and processing notarial documents. The objective of the training is to enable you to assist notaries in carrying out their official business while independently drafting and discussing simple documents with clients, as well as processing all types of documents that are specialist in the notary’s office, including correspondence with courts, other government agencies and clients. After gaining two years of experience working at the notary’s office and participating in various professional seminars, you will be free to pursue an education to become a notary’s assistant. As a notary’s assistant, you will be entrusted with discussing, preparing and processing complex documents. You will also look after some clients independently. After two additional years of professional experience, you will be able to pursue training as a specialized notary. As a notary’s assistant, you will generally assume independent organizational and professional management of a notary’s office, including supervising the staff.

Notary assistant (m/f/x)
Attorney´s assistant (m/f/x)

Please send your application documents either as individual documents or as one complete application document (cover letter) to the contact person listed above for your desired location. The following file formats are possible: Word (doc, docx), PDF, JPG, JPEG and PNG. Please refrain from sending password-protected or write-protected documents.