Personal Injury (PI) Legal Assistant

3-5 yrs required

Full-time

No

Salary

The salary for this position is commensurate with experience, ranging from $45,000 - $60,000 annually.




# Personal Injury (PI) Legal Assistant

## Job Description
We are seeking a hard-working, detail-oriented, well-organized Legal Assistant with three (3) to five (5) years of Personal Injury experience to work out of our Hollywood, Florida office. Legal assistants are responsible for managing day-to-day operations of the law firm and ensuring the firm remains in compliance with legal regulations while providing clients the highest quality of customer service. We require someone who speaks both English and Spanish.

## Responsibilities
As a Personal Injury (PI) Legal Assistant, you will play an important role in helping the firm with intake, manage cases, draft demands, and settle cases. You must demonstrate a high level of professionalism in dealing with confidential and sensitive issues. You will be responsible for every aspect of the case, from inception to trial. The candidate must have experience in settling cases. Since the law firm is growing, we are looking for a Legal Assistant that is willing to go the extra mile to service our clients and the cases. The Legal Assistant is to draft and prepare demands, complaints, motions, and pleadings. While managing the case, the legal assistant is expected to gather all important client information from medical records, files, bills, correspondence and organize the information for further application in a pre-suit demand or for litigation in a timely fashion. Other responsibilities include calendaring events, appointments, sorting and distributing mail, organizing, schedule appointments and conference calls, and other miscellaneous administrative matters.

## Skills and Traits Needed for Position

### Skills
* Excellent writing and verbal skills
* Ability to conduct basic research
* Ability to manage client relations
* Excellent time management skills

### Traits
* Adaptability
* Professionalism
* Polite, professional, and well-spoken
* Optimistic and positive attitude

## Requirements
* Customer service background
* Phone etiquette
* Fluency in English and Spanish
* Ability to input and update information into our case management software
* Ability to move cases forward in an appropriate and timely fashion
* Ability to follow direction
* Ability to follow firm policies and procedures
* Ability to settle a minimum of 200 cases

## Salary
The salary for this position is commensurate with experience, ranging from $45,000 - $60,000 annually.

English and Spanish

other responsibilities include calendaring events, appointments, sorting and distributing mail, organizing, schedule appointments and conference calls, and other miscellaneous administrative matters. requirements

customer service background;
must have phone etiquette;
english and spanish speaking is a must
maintain organization of files by inputting and updating information into our case management software;
ability to move cases forward in an appropriate and timely fashion;
ability to follow direction;
ability to follow firm policies and procedures;
settle a minimum of 200 cases

responsibilities

draft and send letters of representation to clients, clinics and insurance companies (any and all parties involved)
gather incident information from client
prepare demand packages
open new files (obtain medical records and bills, police reports, insurance information, request for pip payout sheets, and fill out pip applications for clients)
call clinic to verify initial treatment
communicate with health insurance companies including private health insurance in order to obtain coverage and negotiate medical bills
reviewing policies, claims and other records to determine insurance coverage eligibility under florida state laws
schedule and prepare clients for recorded statements, ime’s and euo’s
assist clients with providers, property damage claims
must be able to obtain insurance limits, negotiate medical bills and compile medical bill summaries
assist attorney in managing global settlements or individual settlements and assist on the preparation of settlement disclosure
maintain communication with the clients to ensure they are up to date on their treatment

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