Legal Staff Paralegal in Richmond, VA

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Paralegal- Litigation The candidate's duties include: Resolve complex issues, transactions, or projects where some professional expertise is required to apply law, regulation, policies, and guidelines. Investigate facts of complex matters, cases, or transactions, including by interviews with clients or witnesses. Organize, review, and analyze large volumes of detailed information. Perform legal research, apply results to facts, and develop and communicate legal conclusions. Draft and review legal and business documents including correspondence, agreements, contracts, pleadings, and other legal documents. Summarize matters, including events, facts, depositions, testimony, and interrogatories. Assist others in the design, maintenance, and/or management of one or more Legal Department workflow processes, reports, tools, and databases. Maintain and update files, forms, databases, and records. Interact on a professional level with other departments, internal and external clients, outside counsel, vendors, and others. Must have Bachelor’s degree in an American Bar Association approved curriculum or equivalent education; or paralegal training program; or paralegal certification; or prior experience. Should have 2 or more years of related legal or financial experience. Understanding of legal concepts, terminology, principles, and procedures. Strong analytical thinking skills with the ability to identify and define issues, establish facts, analyze moderately complex information, and develop substantiated conclusions with minimal supervision. Strong communication skills with the ability to express moderately complex facts and legal principles clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing. Should have solid knowledge of the principles, methods, and practices of legal research and writing with demonstrated proficiency in online legal research.

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