Excellent opportunity for a Contract Paralegal to join a prestigious non profit organization. Role will focus on writing, fact-checking, scheduling and calendar management. Immediate start date available for 4+ month assignment.
Client Details
Mission driven non-profit.
Description
This is a hybrid 4x per week in-office 9-5 role, that will work closely with the non profit's legal team on the following:
- Managing and organizing litigation calendars, case dockets, and case files.
- Providing support for the editing, production, and filing of pleadings, briefs, exhibits, legislative testimony, and other documents, including proofreading and cite-checking.
- Conducting research and communicating with court clerks regarding local rules and internal operating procedures.
- Providing administrative and technical support for court hearings, trials, and oral arguments
- Managing litigation-related scheduling, invoices, and travel arrangements.
- Coordinating, managing, and tracking correspondence with potential amici, co-counsel and other partners.
- Researching and tracking outside litigation.
- Writing copy for and updating case pages on the website.
- Drafting and editing blog posts for the website, with opportunities for named authorship.
- Taking on special projects and other duties as assigned
Profile
- Bachelor's degree
- At least 1-2 years of paralegal, litigation assistance, or similar work experience
- Exceptional research, analytical, and writing skills
- Strong organizational, communication, interpersonal, time-management, and detail-orientation skills
- Must possess sound judgment
- Demonstrated ability to effectively function in a team-based, deadline-driven, public policy-oriented environment and to think creatively about solving problems and finding data, reports, or academic literature on a given topic swiftly
- Openness to receiving and implementing feedback, and to accepting direction from organizational management
- Comfort with taking initiative
- Proficiency in MS Office (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
Job Offer
- Competitive hourly rate
- 4 month project with ability for extension
- Immediate availability
- Hybrid role 4x in NYC office
- 9-5 hours
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