Paralegal

PARALEGAL

Denmark Ashby Matricardi LLC is seeking an experienced, highly organized paralegal to support its attorneys in a fast-paced local-government and civil-litigation practice.

The ideal candidate is dependable, detail-oriented, responsive, and able to manage assignments from beginning to completion with limited supervision. This position requires excellent judgment, strong written communication, careful document management, and the ability to prioritize multiple urgent matters without sacrificing accuracy.

ABOUT THE FIRM

Denmark Ashby Matricardi LLC represents cities, governmental entities, public officials, and other clients in litigation, investigations, employment matters, open-records matters, municipal operations, and general legal matters. Our attorneys and staff work collaboratively to provide professional, practical, and responsive service to every client.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Assist attorneys with all phases of civil litigation, including discovery, depositions, hearings, mediations, trial preparation, and post-trial matters.

Draft and revise correspondence, notices, pleadings, discovery responses, subpoenas, deposition materials, chronologies, and other legal documents.

Prepare discovery-response shells containing each request, appropriate objections, response language, and clearly identified locations for responsive documents.

Organize and review client productions to confirm that all responsive documents, attachments, exhibits, and native files have been collected.

Maintain accurate case files, document indexes, production logs, privilege logs, exhibit lists, deposition folders, and case chronologies.

Coordinate document collection with municipal departments, law-enforcement personnel, human-resources staff, city clerks, elected officials, and other client representatives.

Follow up consistently with clients, witnesses, attorneys, and staff regarding outstanding information and deadlines.

Assist attorneys with preparing witnesses for depositions, hearings, meetings, and trial.

Calendar and monitor court deadlines, discovery deadlines, depositions, hearings, meetings, and internal due dates.

File pleadings and other documents through applicable state and federal electronic-filing systems.

Maintain matters, tasks, communications, documents, and deadlines in Clio or another designated case-management system.

Review documents for accuracy, completeness, formatting, spelling, grammar, names, dates, citations, attachments, and consistency before submission.

Communicate promptly when information is missing, instructions are unclear, or a deadline may be affected.

Protect confidential, privileged, personnel, investigative, and sensitive governmental information.

Perform additional legal-support and administrative duties as assigned.

PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS

The successful candidate must:

Take ownership of assignments and follow them through to completion.

Read and follow instructions carefully.

Ask focused questions when clarification is necessary.

Confirm that assignments and document productions are complete.

Meet deadlines consistently and provide advance notice of any anticipated delay.

Respond promptly to attorneys, clients, witnesses, and internal staff.

Maintain organized, current, and easily reviewable electronic and physical files.

Produce accurate, polished work that is ready for attorney review.

Identify missing documents, inconsistent dates, incomplete attachments, formatting problems, and other practical issues before submitting work.

Accept feedback professionally and apply corrections consistently to future assignments.

Exercise sound judgment regarding urgency, confidentiality, privilege, and client service.

Work collaboratively while remaining accountable for individual responsibilities.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Prior paralegal or substantial litigation-support experience.

Strong knowledge of civil-litigation procedures and discovery.

Excellent proofreading, writing, organizational, and time-management skills.

Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively under tight deadlines.

Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, document-management systems, and electronic court-filing platforms.

Ability to prepare properly formatted legal documents and maintain complex electronic case files.

Professional communication skills and discretion when handling confidential information.

Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Paralegal certificate, associate degree, bachelor’s degree, or comparable legal experience.

At least three years of litigation-paralegal experience.

Experience with municipal law, local government, employment matters, civil-rights litigation, law-enforcement matters, or open-records requests.

Experience using Clio or a comparable legal case-management platform.

Experience coordinating large document collections and discovery productions.

Familiarity with Georgia state and federal court procedures and electronic-filing systems.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Accuracy and attention to detail

Accountability and follow-through

Responsiveness and reliability

Professionalism and discretion

Initiative and sound judgment

Clear, respectful communication

Organization and deadline management

Practical, service-oriented problem-solving

SELECTION PROCESS

Qualified applicants may be asked to complete a brief writing, proofreading, document-organization, or practical-skills assessment during the selection process.

Denmark Ashby Matricardi LLC is an equal-opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to any status protected by applicable law.