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Experienced Divorce Paralegal
We are seeking a highly motivated seasoned divorce paralegal for a very unique and exciting opportunity in our growing in-house legal team. The Personal Services Department (PSD) Paralegal will assume primary responsibility for and take an essential role in high-level customer support matters and maintaining a wide variety of family law products offered by LegalZoom with a focus on divorce. This is a part-time (approximately 4-5 hours/business day) and temporary position (approximately 6-9 months) with an opportunity for full-time staff placement.
Please note that this is not a traditional “Paralegal” role. You will be an integral part of a team focused on providing our customers with a great experience and enhancing our product offerings in our personal services department (with a focus on divorce) by providing key research and analysis. This is a challenging position that may provide the successful candidate with many opportunities for upward mobility and increased levels of responsibility. If you are a paralegal who is looking for a change of pace and are interested in learning business skills while using your research abilities and creative thinking this may be the position for you!
Principal Responsibilities
• Coordinate and resolve high-level customer-related issues.
• Assume primary responsibility for maintaining family law products and procedures, including the following:
o oversee and manage legal research monitoring systems with attention paid to differences in various jurisdictions
o communication and coordination with other departments for implementation of changes resulting from monitoring
o maintain awareness and knowledge of divorce-related documents, information and procedures and provide suitable guidance / training to managers and staff in the division
o frequent review and update of product offerings and consumer-facing communications
o participate in product development as requested
• Liaise with various operational managers to ensure continuing awareness of and responsiveness to changes in documentation, information, procedure and filing requirements in various jurisdictions.
• Maintain repository of family law products and procedures, serving as resource for internal questions about these items.
• Contribute to other legal department goals and duties as needed.
Candidate requirements:
• 5-7 years of continuous experience as a divorce paralegal. Experience in name change, trust & estates and other areas of family law highly preferred.
• Familiarity with family court procedure and filings.
• Understanding of issues related to dissolution of marriage, child/spousal/family support and child custody.
• Exceptional legal research skills with both traditional and non-traditional sources of legal information and ability to synthesize and communicate research results in a practical manner.
• Excellent “non-legal” writing skills and ability to communicate to a broad audience
• Strong attention to detail, balanced with ability to see the big picture.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, dynamic and highly team-oriented.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment with highly motivated team members.
• Ability to perform in a self-managed environment - must be a self-starter.
• Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, MS Outlook (including management of meetings and contacts), Internet and related software applications.
LegalZoom.com was founded by a team of top attorneys, including celebrity attorney Robert Shapiro. As a young and fast-growing company, we offer tremendous opportunities for personal advancement in a casual but fast-paced environment. Our offices are located in Hollywood.
LegalZoom is an Equal Opportunity Employer, dedicated to diversity.
- Location: Hollywood, CA
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