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Family Law Paralegal – General Pool

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• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of assigned Florida family law cases, including facts, procedural status, discovery, financial matters, deadlines, and outstanding needs
• Monitor cases proactively and identify missing information, upcoming deadlines, and potential issues
• Prepare attorneys for mediations, hearings, depositions, and trials
• Create case chronologies, issue summaries, discovery summaries, financial summaries, exhibit lists, and supporting materials
• Track cases from intake through resolution and ensure deadlines and tasks are not overlooked
• Draft and prepare initial filings, pleadings, motions, notices, and other court documents
• Prepare and review financial affidavits and supporting documentation
• Assist with marital settlement agreements, parenting plans, and settlement-related documents
• Draft discovery requests, responses, subpoenas, deficiency correspondence, and related materials
• Review documents for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and attention to detail
• Review financial affidavits, income documentation, expenses, assets, liabilities, bank records, and opposing-party disclosures
• Identify inconsistencies, omissions, unusual transactions, incomplete responses, and unexplained financial information
• Track outstanding discovery and document requests and recommend additional follow-up
• Organize complex financial information for attorney review
• Prepare and submit documents through the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal
• Monitor filing acceptances, rejected filings, service requirements, and procedural follow-up
• Schedule hearings using applicable Florida county scheduling systems
• Navigate county-specific procedures, court divisions, local administrative requirements, and judicial preferences
• Maintain accurate electronic case files and information in case-management and document-management systems
• Communicate professionally and compassionately with clients, attorneys, opposing counsel, court personnel, experts, process servers, and other legal professionals
• Follow up with clients regarding required documents, outstanding information, deadlines, and case updates
• Recognize issues requiring immediate attorney attention and handle confidential information discreetly
• Use digital files, shared drives, electronic filing platforms, and legal technology efficiently
• Use Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and related applications
• Help improve internal procedures, templates, checklists, and case-management workflows
• Support development and training of additional legal support team members

• 5+ years of hands-on Florida Family Law paralegal experience
• Experience independently managing or taking significant ownership of family law cases
• Strong knowledge of Florida family law procedures and documentation
• Experience drafting pleadings, motions, financial affidavits, discovery, parenting plans, and settlement-related documents
• Experience reviewing financial disclosures and identifying inconsistencies or missing information
• Experience preparing attorneys for mediations, hearings, depositions, and/or trials
• Hands-on experience with the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal
• Experience with Florida county-specific filing and hearing scheduling procedures
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills
• Exceptional organization, attention to detail, judgment, and deadline management
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment while maintaining strong communication with attorneys and team members
• Ability to manage multiple active cases and competing priorities
• Experience with Clio preferred
• Experience with SharePoint preferred
• Experience creating or improving legal procedures, templates, workflows, and checklists preferred
• Previous experience training, mentoring, or supervising paralegals or legal support professionals preferred
• Experience working in a growing U.S. law firm where initiative and independent judgment are highly valued preferred

• 100% remote work
• Senior-level responsibility and meaningful involvement in case preparation and strategy
• Direct interaction with experienced attorneys
• Professional growth through improving systems, workflows, and processes
• Long-term opportunity with a growing practice