Family Law Paralegal – General Pool

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🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💼 Paralegal

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Horizon Premier Staffing

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2024

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👥 HR Tech

Recruitment • HR Tech

Horizon Premier Staffing is a staffing firm that connects North American organizations with skilled remote talent from a global pool. The company emphasizes tailored remote staffing solutions, offering discovery and vetting, support through recruitment and onboarding, and access to AI tools to improve efficiency. HPS specializes in administrative and professional support roles — paralegals, bookkeepers and billing specialists, HR professionals, administrative assistants, legal researchers, and data entry specialists — and positions itself as a cost-effective, flexible option for employers. It also references a sister company, Horizon Legal Solutions, which provides translation and interpretation services nationwide.

📋 Description

• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of assigned Florida family law cases, including facts, procedural status, discovery, financial matters, deadlines, and outstanding needs • Monitor cases proactively and identify missing information, upcoming deadlines, and potential issues • Prepare attorneys for mediations, hearings, depositions, and trials • Create case chronologies, issue summaries, discovery summaries, financial summaries, exhibit lists, and supporting materials • Track cases from intake through resolution and ensure deadlines and tasks are not overlooked • Draft and prepare initial filings, pleadings, motions, notices, and other court documents • Prepare and review financial affidavits and supporting documentation • Assist with marital settlement agreements, parenting plans, and settlement-related documents • Draft discovery requests, responses, subpoenas, deficiency correspondence, and related materials • Review documents for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and attention to detail • Review financial affidavits, income documentation, expenses, assets, liabilities, bank records, and opposing-party disclosures • Identify inconsistencies, omissions, unusual transactions, incomplete responses, and unexplained financial information • Track outstanding discovery and document requests and recommend additional follow-up • Organize complex financial information for attorney review • Prepare and submit documents through the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal • Monitor filing acceptances, rejected filings, service requirements, and procedural follow-up • Schedule hearings using applicable Florida county scheduling systems • Navigate county-specific procedures, court divisions, local administrative requirements, and judicial preferences • Maintain accurate electronic case files and information in case-management and document-management systems • Communicate professionally and compassionately with clients, attorneys, opposing counsel, court personnel, experts, process servers, and other legal professionals • Follow up with clients regarding required documents, outstanding information, deadlines, and case updates • Recognize issues requiring immediate attorney attention and handle confidential information discreetly • Use digital files, shared drives, electronic filing platforms, and legal technology efficiently • Use Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and related applications • Help improve internal procedures, templates, checklists, and case-management workflows • Support development and training of additional legal support team members

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on Florida Family Law paralegal experience • Experience independently managing or taking significant ownership of family law cases • Strong knowledge of Florida family law procedures and documentation • Experience drafting pleadings, motions, financial affidavits, discovery, parenting plans, and settlement-related documents • Experience reviewing financial disclosures and identifying inconsistencies or missing information • Experience preparing attorneys for mediations, hearings, depositions, and/or trials • Hands-on experience with the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal • Experience with Florida county-specific filing and hearing scheduling procedures • Strong written and verbal English communication skills • Exceptional organization, attention to detail, judgment, and deadline management • Ability to work independently in a remote environment while maintaining strong communication with attorneys and team members • Ability to manage multiple active cases and competing priorities • Experience with Clio preferred • Experience with SharePoint preferred • Experience creating or improving legal procedures, templates, workflows, and checklists preferred • Previous experience training, mentoring, or supervising paralegals or legal support professionals preferred • Experience working in a growing U.S. law firm where initiative and independent judgment are highly valued preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work • Senior-level responsibility and meaningful involvement in case preparation and strategy • Direct interaction with experienced attorneys • Professional growth through improving systems, workflows, and processes • Long-term opportunity with a growing practice