Careers

Business Immigration Paralegal & Assistant

We are seeking an experienced legal assistant or paralegal on a full-time basis who meets the following requirements:

Education & Experience:

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree or Associate’s Degree, or comparable education (e.g., paralegal certification).
• Required: Fluency in Spanish; Preferred: Brazilian Portuguese.
• Required: 1 to 2 years of paralegal or legal assistant or comparable experience working in a law office.
• Preferred: Experience in business immigration filings and family immigration filings, but not required.

Responsibilities:

• Provide administrative support to one or more lawyers.
• Effectively communicate with clients, colleagues, and legal service vendors by phone and email.
• Screen potential clients by phone and email.
• Attend client meetings and keep notes.
• Write synopses of client inquiries, business information about clients, and client related research tasks for the filing of immigration matters.
• Conduct documentary research of immigration records.
• Prepare immigration legal documents such as forms, exhibit lists, and related matters.
• Preserve an updated case record system.
• Facilitate the meeting of deadlines by using case management systems, including using office technology and provide timely reminders.

Skills:

• Knowledge or ability to learn the immigration procedural system.
• Knowledge of Office 365 and its apps (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, etc.) and ability to work with immigration case forms technology.
• Outstanding time-management and typing skills.
• Ability to multitask and being comfortable dealing with a diverse pool of people