Legal Assistant / Secretary - Real Estate
Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
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Location | Lake City, FL Lake City, Florida |
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Job DescriptionCompany Description
We are looking for a Legal Assistant / Secretary for our Real Estate practice to join our team!
Job duties include:
- Meeting with potential clients to take in new order information, determining the nature of the task and routing it properly within office workflow, and inputting accurate and complete order information.
- Researching land titles and related information.
- Drafting legal documents including contracts, deeds, mortgages, easements, wills, trusts, and other estate planning documents, complaints, answers, motions, petitions, and other pleadings.
- Researching the identity and location of heirs, interested parties, etc., and contacting them.
- Research of Public Records, Land or Court Records.
- Preparation of interrogatories, requests for production of documents, subpoenas, and similar discovery-related tasks.
- Scheduling on the office calendar and communicating confidential case-related information with clients.
- Filing of documents in the public records and court system.
- Accounting for our fees and costs and the payment for them from clients.
- Keeping organized files and records in a clean office environment.
- Working cooperatively with the attorney and other staff.
Qualifications:
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word
- Ability to draft accurate and complete documents
- Proficient in Proofreading
- Good writing ability using proper grammar and punctuation
- Familiarity with legal terminology and/or Land title
- Experience in a Law office or Land title closing agency
We are a small-town law office engaged primarily in real estate and matters related to it, including real estate transactions, estate planning, probate, foreclosure, evictions, easements and access issues, reformation of documents and suits to quiet title. We don't do any criminal law or domestic relations and relatively little litigation. It is a busy environment with many small transactions at any one time but rewarding to the extent that we are almost always helping people understand and successfully navigate some of life's big financial decisions.
Company Description
We are a small-town law office engaged primarily in real estate and matters related to it, including real estate transactions, estate planning, probate, foreclosure, evictions, easements and access issues, reformation of documents and suits to quiet title. We don't do any criminal law or domestic relations and relatively little litigation. It is a busy environment with many small transactions at any one time but rewarding to the extent that we are almost always helping people understand and successfully navigate some of life's big financial decisions.
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Full-time Jobs Part-time Jobs Posting ID: 934341199 Posted: 2024-05-03 Job Title: Legal Assistant Secretary