Global Paralegal

Are you driven by the details, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks? Do you thrive in a role where your work directly advances important cases? Can you bring order and accountability to a fast-paced legal environment? Are you excited about making a real impact in nursing home and personal injury law? Final question: When faced with a challenge, do you get excited or run away? ** IMPORTANT: TO APPLY ** If you have any questions, please email [email protected] only. Please do not reach out through our website's contact information (telephone, email, or web chat) or via direct messaging on any social media platform. To Apply: Submit your application by clicking the "Apply" button and applying on the Crisp Recruit page that opens. **RECRUITERS DO NOT CONTACT** Pleasant Law, PLLC is a plaintiff-side law firm focused on nursing home abuse and personal injury cases, focusing on providing justice and alleviating the suffering of those wronged by negligence and misconduct. Thomas Pleasant, our lead attorney, is celebrated for his rigorous pursuit of just outcomes and his ability to bring even the most challenging cases to favorable jury verdicts. Our practice focuses on medical cases involving serious/catastrophic injury and wrongful death in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and hospitals. We serve clients primarily in North Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky, with a commitment to providing personalized attention and intensive focus on each case. Our firm is currently experiencing significant case volume, creating a need for strong operational support to keep cases progressing efficiently. Our goal is to enable the attorney to dedicate more time to high-value legal work by improving case operations. Our firm is known for its thoroughness in investigating every detail, from medical records to staff histories in nursing home cases, making us formidable advocates in and out of the courtroom. The role of the Global Paralegal at Pleasant Law, PLLC is critical in maintaining case flow and supporting our mission to deliver justice for vulnerable clients. As the backbone of our case management, this position was created to alleviate the administrative burden on our attorneys, enabling them to focus on advocating for our clients. Your efforts will ensure that our practice operates smoothly and cases are handled with the utmost diligence and care, ultimately contributing to successful client outcomes. This is a high-impact role created to relieve significant operational pressure from the attorney and ensure cases move forward without delay. What you’ll do: Case Management: Track each case from sign-up through litigation to resolution, ensuring deadlines and milestones are met. Calendar Management: Oversee discovery and filing deadlines, ensuring all dates are well-documented and tracked. Medical Records Management: Coordinate the ordering, tracking, and follow-up of medical records, ensuring all are received and in order. Document Management: Handle the organization and preparation of legal documents, ensuring everything is filed accurately. Client Communication: Serve as a point of contact for clients, providing updates and responding to inquiries with professionalism. Scheduling: Organize depositions, mediations, and court proceedings, ensuring all parties are informed and prepared. Litigation Support: Assist attorneys with discovery responses, document drafting, and evidence gathering. Accountability Driving: Actively hold the attorney accountable by following up on deadlines, pushing next steps, and ensuring no case stalls. What we’re looking for: Personal Injury Experience: Proven experience in personal injury law, including both pre-litigation and litigation phases. Detail-Oriented: Strong task management skills with extreme attention to detail is critical, missed tasks or lack of follow-through will not be successful in this role. Proactive Approach: Ability to independently move cases forward without waiting for instructions. Excellent Communication: Proficient in English, with the ability to clearly articulate with clients, courts, and legal teams. Remote Work Capability: Comfortable and experienced working in a remote setting, self-motivated and disciplined. Must have significant overlap with Eastern Time (EST) working hours. Technical Proficiency: Comfortable using tools like Google Workspace and access to firm systems and platforms (candidate provides own equipment). Problem Solving: Strong ability to identify issues and devise strategic solutions to ensure seamless case progression. Why you should work here: Growth Opportunity: Work directly with the firm's leadership and make impactful contributions to significant cases. Meaningful Work: Engage with cases that make a real difference in clients’ lives, particularly in the realm of nursing home abuse. Autonomy and Ownership: Enjoy a high degree of independence, tasked with managing cases and implementing processes. Collaborative Culture: Work closely with a small team while operating with a high degree of independence. Additional perks: Competitive Compensation: Receive a strong, experience-based monthly rate for a critical role where your performance has a direct and visible impact on case success and firm growth. The firm also regularly pays discretionary bonuses from successful case outcomes. Technology Support: Gain access to necessary platforms for case management and communication. Global Reach: Work remotely as part of a global team, focusing on outcomes and results. Join Pleasant Law, PLLC, and be the key player who ensures our cases advance with precision and care. If you are a detail-driven professional ready to take ownership of critical case processes, we invite you to apply and make a difference in our clients’ lives today.