Paralegal

Job Description

Time Type:

Role Details:

Time Type: Full Time

Starting Pay Range: $60,000 - $70,000 /YR

Job Location: 1350 IH 35 N, San Marcos, TX 78666

**This position is an Onsite Position Only**

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Provide pre-litigation assistance in a variety of claims, including gathering documents responsive to retention requests and communicating with claim representatives.
• Compile and sort documents responsive to discovery requests and provide to outside counsel.
• Organize and update case management software system.
• Review, redact, and compile documents in response to third-party record requests.
• Draft releases, agreements, memoranda, letters, affidavits, resolutions, and other legal documents.
• Proofread and analyze a variety of legal documents and suggest revisions.
• Review and analyze existing contracts and provide related guidance to legal manager, in-house counsel, and McCoy’s internal teams.
• Assist legal manager, in-house counsel, outside counsel, and other McCoy’s employees with preparation for depositions, mediations and trials.   

• Maintain legal department calendar and assist legal manager and in-house counsel with calendar management including recording all case deadlines and scheduling depositions, meetings and other appointments.
• Assist legal manager and in-house counsel with providing legal advice to or answering questions from management.
• Attend team meetings and company training sessions as required.
• Utilize various online resources to obtain a variety of information.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• Effective organizational, writing, and communication skills with the ability to prioritize workflow and follow up on projects or assignments as appropriate.
• Ability to communicate with individuals with varied levels of education, experience and backgrounds.
• Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft and other third-party software applications.
• Ability to read and analyze legal documents.  Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Ability to prepare drafts of legal documents and assist in-house counsel, legal manager, and other employees in review and analysis of existing contracts and provide related guidance to McCoy’s internal teams.
• Experience conducting and summarizing legal research.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Three or more years of paralegal or legal assistant litigation experience.
• B.A. or B.S. and certificate of completion in a formal course of paralegal study at an accredited educational institute or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in developing, implementing, and using legal department technology solutions including case management systems and SharePoint file organization.
• Prior or applicable experience in some or all of the following:
  • General business and commercial law transactions
  • Commercial litigation
  • Employment law and litigation
  • Real estate law
  • Tort law (employment, auto liability and commercial general liability defense)
  • Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques
• Ability to demonstrate a working knowledge of employment-related issues, risk and insurance management, and/or transactional experience, including applicable laws regarding EEO/AAP, HIPAA, FMLA, ADA, OSHA, DOT, FMCSR, etc.

WORK AVAILABILITY

• Must maintain regular and acceptable attendance, at such level as is determined by management.
• Must be regularly available and willing to work a minimum of 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week or such other hours per day or hours per week as the employer determines are necessary or desirable to meet business needs.
• Must be available and willing to work such weekends and holidays as the employer determines are necessary or desirable to meet its business needs.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

• This position requires periodic travel with occasional overnight stays.
• Must meet driver eligibility requirements as required by the Company.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and lift boxes of documents.  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat; and vibration.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.