Legal Assistant/Paralegal Jobs

📍 Irving, TX

✨ Full Time Hire

💼 Founded in 1975

Position Summary:

Job entails managing all administrative tasks associated with the legal process of Texas Foreclosure. These tasks generally include editing and preparing correspondence, pleadings, and other legal documents, maintaining paper and electronic files, correspondence, reviewing dockets, communicating with court staff, e-filing pleadings, updating internal systems & client systems, fielding calls from clients, borrowers and other outside parties. The position requires substantial coordination with other legal assistants and attorneys in multi-disciplinary team environment.

Responsibilities:

• Assisting with check down of closed, active, and hold files including forwarding invoices of foreclosures fees and costs, creating chronologies, and retrieving documents.
• Fielding calls from borrowers, clients, courts, and other outside parties in a courteous and effective manner.
• Drafting, preparing, and formatting memoranda, correspondence, legal documents, deeds, assignments, and various other legal documents.
• Reviewing title reports and recorded documents.
• Ensuring timely, courteous, and thorough responses to a heavy volume of email correspondence.
• E-filing pleadings.
• Ensuring the effective and timely delivery of outgoing mail, messenger deliveries, overnight deliveries, and facsimiles.
• Reviewing and interpreting Court dockets.

Qualifications:

• Associates Degree, Paralegal Certificate, or at least 2 years of experience as a legal assistant
• Familiarity with case and document management software
• Experience with client systems such as Loansphere, Clairfire, Tempo, Vendorscape and others is preferred.
• Experience with review of title reports and identifying chain of title issues preferred.
• High-level proficiency in MS Office suite.
• Good understanding of the legal process surrounding foreclosure preferred.

Jettison provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetics.