Legal Intern
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Job Description
About the Company:
We are a mighty law firm with over two-and-a-half decades of experience in Estate Planning & Elder Care, delivering service to its’ client base. Our firm’s mission is to provide our clients with peace of mind if a death or dying crisis occurs that their wishes will be enforceable, and fierce advocacy for the vulnerable elderly and others.
Job Description:
We are seeking to hire a high school or college student wanting to gain legal work experience and get their legal career started as a Legal Intern. This is an unpaid internship during the summer school months. This position directly reports to the Client Intake Supervisor.
Duties:
The intern supports attorneys, paralegals and other staff members in client and administration matters within the Firm. The tasks will vary and can include:
• Utilizing templates
• Coordinating file maintenance
• Witnessing signing ceremonies
• Creating file labels
• Running reports
• Answering phones, etc.
Skills Requirements
• Ability to prioritize, calendar deadlines, organize workload, adhere to processes and take initiative to assist the attorneys.
• Have good computer skills and maintain physical files.
• Assist with answering phones, scanning and organizing incoming and outgoing mail, and filing documents; conducting internet and legal research; reviewing written documents and emails for typographical consistency, grammar, and spelling; entering data into a database or computer software.
• Professional and empathetic phone manners with clients, the public, other professionals, and the court.
