Family Law Paralegal – Contract

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🕒 August 20

🌪️ Oklahoma – Remote

🌪️ Oklahoma – Remote

💵 $30 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💼 Paralegal

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The Freelance Firm

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2018

🤝 B2B

⚖️ Legal

🏪 Marketplace

B2B • Legal • Marketplace

The Freelance Firm is a service provider that connects law firms with freelance attorneys and paralegals, offering tailored support solutions to enhance legal practices. By providing access to a network of specialized freelance legal professionals, The Freelance Firm helps law firms manage their workload efficiently, allowing them to focus on revenue-generating activities while reducing overhead costs. Their offerings include legal drafting, research support, and administrative assistance, all designed to improve the productivity and effectiveness of legal practices.

📋 Description

• Provide high-level drafting support for active family law matters • Draft initial disclosures, discovery requests and responses, petitions, responses, protective orders, motions, and other family law pleadings • Assist with organizing and moving active family law cases forward • Communicate directly and professionally with clients regarding case status, outstanding information, documents, and next steps • Provide regular updates regarding file progress • Assist attorneys with case preparation and other substantive family law support • Work collaboratively with the firm's attorneys, paralegals, operations staff, and other team members • Take ownership of assigned work and proactively identify issues, next steps, and opportunities to improve case progression

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of substantive paralegal experience, with strong direct family law experience • Exceptional drafting ability is a MUST • Experience independently drafting substantive family law pleadings, discovery, motions, and related documents • Very strong attention to detail and commitment to producing accurate, polished, high-quality work product • Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills • Comfortable making thoughtful suggestions, identifying potential issues, and bringing ideas to the legal team • Ability to work independently while integrating closely with an established legal team • Proactive, responsive, and dependable communicator • Strong client-management skills and ability to communicate professionally and empathetically with clients • Polished and professional demeanor • Strong organizational and time-management skills; ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines • Professional, respectful, collaborative, and team-oriented • Comfortable receiving feedback and revisions • Experience with MyCase is highly preferred • Substantive family law writing samples are strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Potential to grow to up to 40 hours per week • Ongoing, potentially substantial and long-term workload • Immediate work available • 30-minute online meeting • Resume submissions kept in strict confidence