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Berry Law

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1965

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

⚖️ Legal

Consulting • Insurance • Legal

Berry Law is a law firm that specializes in providing legal representation for personal injury and criminal defense cases in Nebraska and Iowa. They offer a wide range of legal services, including veteran appeals, military law, and mass torts. The firm is known for its commitment to helping clients fight for their rights and achieve favorable outcomes in both personal injury incidents and criminal charges. Berry Law operates on a contingency fee basis for personal injury cases, emphasizing a client-first approach where they only get paid if the client wins. Their experienced team of attorneys is available 24/7 to provide consultations and legal support.

📋 Description

• Build and continuously improve Berry Law's legal quality management system for VA appeals • Report defects and identify systemic quality issues • Conduct independent quality reviews of randomly selected appeals • Review all appeals from new attorneys for the first 15 days after training • Ensure compliance with Berry Law's Quality Standards and prevent critical defects before filing • Analyze defects and determine root causes • Report defects to the VA Commander for corrective actions • Conduct quarterly legal writing workshops, appellate advocacy training, and calibration exercises • Maintain QC Standards, QC Scorecards, Defect Database, Writing Guides, Approved Authority Library, Template Library, and future AI Prompt Library • Review and report on precedential cases and update quality resources as necessary • Ensure legal writing is concise, accurate, persuasive, professional, easy to read, and strategically organized • Assign root cause, corrective action, owner, and deadline for significant defects and report them to the VA Commander and assigned Platoon Leader • Maintain dashboards tracking defect rates, recurring defects, attorney trends, department trends, and quality improvement over time • Conduct weekly audits of appeals and appeal forms • Conduct monthly audits of templates, AI output, and SOP compliance • Require Platoon Leader review before filing when necessary • Place attorneys on enhanced QC review • Update templates and checklists after consulting with the VA Commander • Recommend training changes and escalate recurring quality issues to the CEO • Recommend attorney and case manager termination directly to the VA Commander

🎯 Requirements

• Licensed attorney • 5+ years of appellate or litigation experience • Exceptional legal writing ability • Extensive VA appellate experience • Strong analytical skills • Excellent judgment • Former appellate clerk preferred • Former law review editor preferred • Former legal writing professor preferred • Experience implementing quality management systems preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Berry Law has been recognized nationally for its workplace culture and rapid growth • Equal opportunity employer