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Marrs Griebel Law, LTD

Litigation Paralegal

Marrs Griebel Law, LTD, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 87199

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Description

Marrs Griebel Law, LTD is hiring an experienced litigation paralegal to join our growing team in Albuquerque. This is not a clock-in, clock-out kind of role. We're looking for someone who wants to own their workflow, produce excellent results, and be directly rewarded for the value they bring.

If you have strong litigation experience, excellent organization and writing skills, and the ability to manage complex case files from start to finish, you'll find real opportunity here, alongside a team that respects high performers and works with purpose.

Compensation

We offer a compensation model based on billed hours, which allows our paralegals to be rewarded directly for the work they contribute. Hourly Rate: $50-$70/hr , based on experience Earning potential: $75,000-$125,000+/year Top performers have exceeded $250K

with performance-based bonuses Full benefits package included

This model is ideal for professionals who are self-motivated, efficient, and take pride in delivering high-quality work.

Responsibilities

•Case management: including case status reports, workflow planning, and managing deadlines (not primarily responsible for calendaring) •Verify discovery-related calendaring (typically handled by a legal assistant) •File management: organize and manage client and discovery documents •Document management: review, organize, and analyze documents; prepare summaries and indices •Work directly with clients to retrieve documents and assist with discovery responses •Draft discovery documents, certain pleadings, initial drafts of complaints, chronologies, notices, and letters •Document production: collect, review, organize, number, and produce documents •Deposition support: assist with deposition preparation, including organizing exhibits and drafting preliminary questionnaires •Trial preparation: assemble exhibits, draft exhibit lists and pretrial orders, prepare witness binders and filing appendices •Assist during trials and arbitration hearings •Summarize deposition transcripts and related exhibits •Conduct factual research using in-house files and external reference sources •Provide secondary support to legal assistant: file and serve pleadings, and direct calendaring in accordance with court or arbitration rules

Qualifications

To thrive in this role, you should bring: • 3+ years of substantive litigation paralegal experience •Strong

organizational and case management

skills •Proficiency in

legal writing

and

document proofreading •Ability to

self-manage

and effectively prioritize tasks in a deadline-driven environment •Familiarity with

New Mexico and Federal court procedures , including arbitration •Experience with

mid- to large-scale document production •Technical fluency in

MS Office Suite, Adobe,

and ideally

SharePoint • Bachelor's degree strongly preferred •Paralegal certificate from an

ABA-accredited program

or equivalent experience