House Counsel Staff Assistant

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Chubb Staff Counsel office of Meaders & Alfaro is currently seeking candidates for a full-time Legal Staff Assistant position for our Dallas, Texas office.

The attorneys and staff of the firm are employees of ACE American Insurance Company, a Chubb Company.

The Legal Staff Assistant position supports the Texas firm (with Dallas and Houston offices) by managing the firm's e-service mailbox which receives daily filings and submissions from the Texas Courts E-Filing Portal, opposing counsel, Courts, and other parties.

In this role, the candidate will be responsible for monitoring this email box and processing all court filings and documents served into the Firm's e-service email box.

This role requires the candidate to work well independently, demonstrate strong time-management skills, and be fully familiar with the Firm's case-management system (ProLaw) and MS Outlook.

In this role, the candidate will carefully review all filings and submissions and process them (electronically) into the ProLaw case management system.

Attention to detail and knowledge of response times for legal filings and submission are a must for this role.

This successful candidate will work under the direction and supervision of the firm's Law Office Administrator.

The job duties shall include, but are not limited to:


* Saving all documents served into the e-service box into our Prolaw database system;


* Calculating and calendaring all deadlines associated with the filings and submissions into the ProLaw system (including due dates for responses to complaints, discovery requests, deposition dates, court hearings and appearances, motions, mediations, trials, etc.);


* Reviewing, calculating, and calendaring deadlines contained in trial orders;


* Communicating with paralegals and attorneys in the office regarding any unique submissions into the e-service box;


* Assist with opening Casualty and Financial Lines cases in our Prolaw database;


* Assist Law Office Administrator with processing invoices and various administrative tasks;

QUALIFICATIONS



* Prior administrative or paralegal experience in a litigation environment in the state of Texas;


* Knowledge of Texas Rules of Civil Procedure and Texas court filing systems is preferred;


* A degree or certificate of completion from a recognized paralegal training program is preferred, but is not required;


* Proficiency in Adobe Pro and MS Office software platforms (including Outlook, Word, & Excel);


* Ability to learn the ProLaw case-management platform;


* Strong time management, organizational and communication skills;

ABOUT US

Chubb is a world leader in insurance.

With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients.

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