Paralegal

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About our partner: Join a well-established California law firm focused on probate, trust administration, conservatorships, and estate planning. The team is known for being detail-driven, client-centered, and genuinely supportive of one another, with a culture that values candor, adaptability, and continuous growth. It's a place where paralegals are trusted with real ownership over their cases and treated as essential partners in the firm's success.

About the role: The Paralegal will work closely with attorneys to keep cases moving, providing substantive support across probate, trust administration, conservatorship, and estate planning matters. This is a hands-on role for someone who takes initiative, enjoys managing a full caseload, and is comfortable drafting a wide range of legal documents with precision. Paralegals report to the Managing Paralegal and play a key part in delivering timely, high-quality service to clients.

This is an excellent opportunity to grow your career with a leading US-based company—fully remote.

What You'll Do

• Manage caseload and take initiative in ensuring the case moves forward and all work is done in a timely manner.
• Know and understand the scope of work and strategy for matters assigned
• Communicate with clients, experts, and other parties to provide updates and gather information; answer basic questions about the status of the case.
• Open, maintain, and close client files (both paper & electronic).
• Perform initial case assessment and document review.
• Monitor case progress and move the case forward without attorney prompting, including responsibilities for upcoming deadlines, and important timeframes/milestones
• Drafting various legal documents including but not limited to Judicial Council Forms, Motions, Pleadings, Petitions, Affidavits/Declarations, Court Orders, Discovery, Subpoenas, Agreements, and Proof of Service Declarations.
• Draft documents, indexes, chronologies; deeds and real estate transfers (PCOR, Parent-Child Exclusion); draft letters and court documents; fill out legal forms; write reports, etc.
• Help attorneys prepare cases for mediations/hearings including calculating deadlines, scheduling remote appearances as needed, calendaring deadlines, and ensuring attorneys and clients have work done/reviewed prior to those deadlines for timely filings.
• Assist with document reviews for identifying and prioritizing issues for completion.
• Research and case analysis for trust administration, probate, and conservatorships including judicial decisions about current as well as past cases
• Review and research statutory regulations including the California Probate Code, California Rules of Court, and local rules.
• Assist lawyers in the courtroom (if needed)
• Draft estate planning documents; including but not limited to trusts, wills, powers of attorney, and healthcare directives.
• Maintain records in case management system, digital filing.
• Enter billable and non-billable time in the case management system
• Photocopy, collate, scan, and related functions (as back up to assistant)
• Provide direct feedback to the other team members of the office, including attorneys and the owner on what is working and not working in the office related to policies and procedures.

Matrix of Tasks

• Daily
• Review daily reminders and update Clio task list to ensure all tasks are completed or moved to the date that they will be performed
• Review daily, weekly, and upcoming monthly calendar items and prioritize workload
• Complete tasks as assigned
• Triage and prioritize responses to emails
• Organize, sort, and summarize case information and files
• Docket (schedule) legal events/ case milestones
• Draft letters/reports/ documents
• Prepare for meetings and hearings
• Enter billable time contemporaneously
• Weekly
• Meet with associate and legal team for case status updates
• Provide client updates
• Monthly
• Attend Case Status Update meetings and update records

What You Bring

• An Associate’s Degree in Paralegal/Legal Assistant Studies or Bachelor’s Degree or a minimum of two years’ paralegal/legal assistant experience supported by attorney letter of reference.
• A Paralegal should have experience in a law firm.
• Experience as a legal secretary or legal assistant is especially pertinent, and candidates with this background will be given preference.
• The ability to manage a case load of clients as well as analyze priority of cases and upcoming deadlines including the ability to extrapolate information from incomplete data and capable of problem-solving when cases deviate from standard timelines.
• Willingness to provide direct feedback to the office.
• Self-motivated, able to work independently as needed and work alongside the office team.
• Strong verbal and written skills (including no typos or spelling errors) with the ability to communicate with clients, other counsel, court clerks, financial entity personnel and various local and government agencies.
• Strong computer skills and ability to troubleshoot basic computer issues. Ability to learn and adapt to new technology or platforms used by office.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PDF Software, Legal Calendaring Software and Clio Manage, Lawya, Judicial Council Forms

*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

Salary & Perks

• Competitive Pay: We hire top talent and compensate accordingly.
• This is a full-time, long-term engagement with room to grow
• The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with TLNT.
• 100% remote — work from wherever you do your best thinking
• Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (+/- 1 hour accepted) - PST.
• Additional perks.

Ready to apply? We'd love to hear your story. The next step is a short application where you can share more about your background and upload your resume in English. Take your time — we read every response carefully.