Job Description

Do you love digging into research and helping people? We’re hiring an immigration paralegal to assist our legal team in preparing legal documents, filing motions, coordinating law office activity, and conducting legal research. Applicants should be experienced, highly organized professionals with great attention to detail. If this sounds like a job you’ll love, apply below. Responsibilities:

• Work with lawyers to prepare for trial by conducting research on legal articles, preparing and organizing exhibits, organizing and coordinating witnesses, filing motions, and assisting with client meetings
• Gather information about legal issues from the client in interviews
• Coordinate law office activity, including the drafting subpoenas and coordinating with process servers
• Draft legal documents, pleadings, and correspondence such as interrogatories, subpoenas, deposition notices, complaints, pretrial orders, legal briefs, and affidavits under the guidance of a lawyer
• Organize our case filing systems to ensure all documents are properly sorted and easy to locate, and other administrative duties as needed
• Draft petitions, waivers, Naturalization, Business visas, U visa, Vawa, T-visas, asylum, TPS, DACA, removal defense paperwork with USCIS, US embasies and immigration courts.

Qualifications:

• Excellent organizational skills, and time-management skills
• 3+ years of legal service experience under an attorney or lawyer in a law firm setting
• Talented communicator and writer
• Must have completed an ABA-approved paralegal certificate program such as an Associate’s degree or proprietary school program in paralegal studies, Bachelor’s degree desired
• Completion of a nationally-accredited paralegal program strongly preferred

About Company: About Vasquez Law Firm, PLLC With more than 35 years of combined legal experience, we know what is at stake, and we know how to get results in a wide range of practice areas. If you are facing a difficult situation, we are ready to put our experience and client-focused approach to work for you and your family. We help immigrants and their families navigate the legal aspects of immigration, criminal defense, personal injury, and workers' compensation issues in their own language, connecting them with resources to improve their lives far beyond their court cases. If you have the drive and the skills to contribute to our mission and are ready to take on this challenging yet rewarding role, we would love to hear from you. Competitive salary + performance-based incentives.Growth opportunities within the firm.Supportive team and professional development opportunities.The opportunity to make a direct impact on clients’ lives.

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