About the role

  • Drafting, preparing, and formatting memoranda, correspondence, advertisements/postings, deeds, assignments, and various other legal documents.
  • Ensuring the effective and timely delivery of outgoing mail, messenger deliveries, overnight deliveries, and facsimiles.
  • Fielding calls from borrowers, clients, courts, and other outside parties in a courteous and effective manner.
  • Ensuring timely, courteous, and thorough responses to a heavy volume of email correspondence.
  • Developing and maintaining congenial relationships with business associates and clients.
  • Consistently and accurately updating the firm’s internal case management system, as well as all client systems.
  • Reviewing title reports and recorded documents.
  • Providing exceptional customer service to clients at every level of interaction.
  • Proofreading the legal documents as required.
  • Providing support to attorneys in a high volume, time sensitive atmosphere.
  • Providing regular and timely client status updates, as well as continual follow-up on outstanding documents and or services.
  • Coordination with title contacts to complete outstanding tasks such as recordings and retrieval of missing documents.
  • Assisting with check down of closed, active, and hold files including forwarding invoices of foreclosures fees and costs, creating chronologies, and retrieving documents.
  • Performing other duties and responsibilities as needed.

Requirements

  • Minimum associate degree, Paralegal Certificate, or at least 2 years of experience as a legal assistant.
  • Default law firm experience is preferred, but not required.
  • Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Must be committed to providing exceptional customer service.
  • Ability to communicate courteously and effectively with borrowers, 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.
  • Ability to read and write at a high level for proof reading and editing purposes.
  • High-level proficiency in MS Office suite.
  • Proficiency in internet research activities.
  • Familiarity with case and document management software.
  • Experience with client systems such as ICE/BKFS, Clairfire, Tempo, Vendorscape and others is preferred.
  • Good understanding of the legal process surrounding foreclosure preferred.
  • Experience with review of title reports and identifying chain of title issues preferred.
  • Ability to proficiently operate computer, fax machine, scanner, photocopier, typewriter, and telephone is required.
  • All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in the United States.

Benefits

  • We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, which includes a salary commensurate with your experience and accomplishments.
  • WFH Flexible
  • This is a position that can either be hybrid (in Roswell or Birmingham) or remote based on experience level.
  • Resume submissions will be considered confidential.

Job title

Foreclosure Legal Assistant

Job type

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

$21 - $25 per hour

Degree requirement

Associate's Degree

Location requirements

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