Paralegal jobs in Chico, CA

Responsibilities Include:

• Conduct legal research.
• Draft documents ensuring proper formatting, style, and captions.
• Assist in preparing case documents, and research.
• Experience with calendaring, drafting letters, and follow-up on pending legal items.
• Ability to communicate complex legal concepts in a clear and concise manner.
• Engage with Business Advisor in case planning and recommendations on how to proceed.
• Ability to produce correspondence, proofread for grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
• Maintain legal files, and other information in connection with the work in an organized manner that is easily retrievable.
• Able to analyze legal documents and ensure accuracy.
• Prepare chronologies and timeline of events.
• Assisting with workplace investigations including scheduling and summarizing witness interviews.
• Analyze legal documents, statutes, regulations, and case law to identify relevant information and summarize findings.
• Conduct thorough and accurate legal research using various databases and resources.

Legal Document Administrator

• Familiarity with a variety of real estate and corporate general legal concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Will assist the Business Advisor in drafting, editing, storing, processing, faxing, mailing, and electronically sending correspondence, and other legal documents.
• Ensures all legal or corporate documents are prepared, proofread, copies, and filed/served in accordance with legal requirements and deadlines.
• Managing legal documents.
• Be able to file Real-Estate documents, research documents, analysis of legal documents, analysis of contracts.
• Ability to know which City, County, State, or Federal municipal entity is required to process or apply for licenses, recording of company documents, or any legal requirements.
• Keep organized and detailed files for all projects and update frequently in both paper and electronic documents.
• Ability to consistently deliver the highest quality of work under pressure and deadlines.

Competencies

• Highly organized and detailed-oriented.
• Strong Communication & Multi-tasking skills required.
• Shows emotional resilience and flexibility while dealing with a variety of stakeholders, partners, and clients.
• Strong proactive problem solver that figures out solutions to roadblocks and seeks out resources independently.
• Uphold a strict level of confidentiality.
• Exercises considerable judgement and discretion in handling requests for appointments and ensures all parties are informed of and kept abreast of schedules and schedule changes and conflicts.
• Develop and sustain a level of professionalism among staff and clientele.
• Prepare internal and external corporate documents for Business Advisor.

Supervisory responsibilities

• None

Work Environment

Work is performed in an office environment and requires:

• Sitting for prolonged periods of time using a computer keyboard, mouse, and screen.
• Standing and walking may require twisting, reaching, bending, crouching, and kneeling.
• Grasping, pushing, pulling, dragging, and lifting boxes of files and other office items weighing 30 pounds or less.
• Mobility, vision, hearing, and dexterity levels appropriate to the duties to be performed.

Travel Required

• No

Required education and experience

• 3 to 7 years Paralegal experience.
• Paralegal Certificate, extensive educational background in California and Federal Law.
• Bachelor’s Degree or AA in Business Administration, Finance, Business Law, or Accounting.
• Internet and tech savvy.
• Must be able to type 55 to 75 wpm.
• Advanced Computer & Microsoft Office Suite, Word, Adobe, Dropbox, and Excel skills required.

Preferred education and experience

• Paralegal, Legal Secretary, Legal Analyst or Legal Case Manager.
• Have experience in Real-Estate Law, or Title Company Background, trust and estate planning, corporate law, or employment law experience a plus.

Additional eligibility requirements

• Valid California Driver’s License.
• Pass a Pre-Employment Drug Screen.
• Pass a Background Screen and Check.

  Other duties

  Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.