Legal Assistant I - Workers Compensation
AmTrust Financial
- Latham, NY
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Answer inbound main line phone calls and route inquiries to correct team member
- Greet and manage guests and vendors
- Retrieve, scan, and route all incoming mail to proper team and Claims
- Monitor and process office electronic mailbox correspondence
- Ability to flag critical documents requiring timely responses and appearances
- Process outbound USPS/FedEx mail
- Coordinate/schedule meetings, hearings, appointments, and depositions
- Generate draft templates (pleadings, motions, objections, correspondence) for attorney review and approval
- Assemble medical packets to experts along with itemized schedule of records
- Provide Legal Assistant support to 1 or more Attorneys
- Document processing (assemble, copy, scan, serve, E-file accordingly)
- Manage and prioritize competing deadlines
- Communicate with claim partners, clients, witnesses, Court, opposing counsel, vendors, and team members
- Maintain data integrity in our document management platform supporting our paperless environment (documents, parties, roles/relations, naming conventions)
- Timely transmit and request payments to vendors, experts, etc.
- Provide office support as needed (place tickets for failing equipment, order office supplies, assist peers as needed and during PTO)
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
- 3+ years’ New York workers compensation defense experience
- Prior workers’ compensation experience supporting multiple attorneys and competing deadlines
- Ability to type a min. of 70 wpm and must be proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.)
- Organized, self- motivated, ability to prioritize and work independently
- Exceptional attention to details and the production of professional work product
- Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Work in a team environment with a positive respectful attitude
- Experience with a document management platform (Litify a plus)