Administrative Legal Clerk

Hawkins Parnell & Young LLP is looking for a File Clerk to assist one or more busy practice teams. The position is ideal for someone - seeking experience in a law firm environment. Duties include accessing various electronic file sites to pull case data and manipulating, interpreting data from various databases. The successful candidate may also assist in trial preparation as well as learn litigation software and paralegal duties, depending on the team assignment.

HPY offers a competitive salary complemented by a full, comprehensive benefits package including Vacation, Sick Days, Medical Insurance, Vision Plan, Dental Insurance, Life Insurance, 401k, Short and Long Term Disability and Profit Sharing.

Successful Candidate Duties:

• Create and maintain paper and electronic files in compliance with internal policies
• Find and retrieve information from files in response to requests from team members
• Read electronic data in order to determine how and where they should be classified or filed.
• Learn and utilize litigation software

Requirements:

• Familiarity with MS office and file management suite
• Some law office experience preferred
• Ability to work independently
• Critical reasoning and personal judgment required
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Practice Areas:

Appellate, Bad Faith and Coverage, Banking & Finance, Business/Commercial, Construction, Employee Benefits & ERISA, Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), Labor & Employment, Legal Malpractice, Long Term Care & Assisted Living, Medical Malpractice, Municipal Liability, Premises Liability, Product Liability, Professional Negligence, Toxic Tort and Environmental, and Transportation

Why Hawkins Parnell & Young?

Over the last half-century, we have grown to include more than 350 lawyers and professional staff in ten offices located in Atlanta, Austin, Charleston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Napa, New York, St. Louis, and San Francisco. Our firm represents some of America’s largest corporations, small local businesses and individual clients in high-risk litigation and business disputes across the country. Our continued success relies on one distinction - OUR PEOPLE. We are committed to our people by providing a culture that is vibrant, challenging and rewarding with an environment to choose your career path and experience opportunities and benefits not present at every firm.

We value diversity and strive to create a supportive environment that enables all of our personnel to achieve and deliver excellence in their professional careers. We actively embrace different backgrounds, viewpoints and perspectives as we endeavor to promote diversity in our workplace and our community. Many of our attorneys and staff participate in pro bono programs and community service to provide social, legal and economic opportunities to the underprivileged and disadvantaged.

Hawkins Parnell & Young is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.