AddressDescription
Our client, a mid-size Boston law firm, is recruiting for a Fiduciary Litigation Paralegal to join our Private Client Department.
The responsibilities of this position include:
- Drafting probate pleadings such as guardianship petitions and related form pleadings, conservatorship petitions and related form pleadings, estate administration and trust related form petitions and collateral standard form Court documents
- Drafting non-technical Complaints, Answers, Motions, Responses, Assents, and Oppositions
- Drafting non-technical pleadings and proposed orders in equity litigation and Trusts & Estates litigation matters
- Discovery requests and responses, including interrogatories, requests for production of documents, notices of deposition, subpoenas, Schedules A
- Reviewing discovery responses, including document management, labeling, organizing and uploading for electronic retrieval of discovery materials and tracking discovery deadlines
- Document management in trust litigation and estate litigation matters
- Guardianship Care Plans and tracking deadlines
- Rogers review preparation and tracking deadlines
- Conservators Inventories and Accounts and Trustee Inventories and Accounts
- Calendaring dates and deadlines
- Preparing lawyers for court appearances
- Filing in court and arranging for service of pleadings, citations, summonses
- Development of pleadings binders or docket books
- Participation with lawyers in strategy conferences
- Communications with clients, family members, opposing counsel, co-counsel, and third parties and vendors
Requirements
This individual must be organized, efficient, and highly responsive to a group of many lawyers, self-motivated with excellent verbal and written communication skills and possess a commitment to client service.
Experience with various county courts within the Massachusetts Probate & Family Court Department including the Fiduciary Litigation Session, and some experience with or knowledge of rules of the Superior Court is preferred.
Knowledge or familiarity with the MUPC and MUTC is highly desirable.
