Job Description
Our firm is seeking to add two attorneys to our closely knit team. If you are a continuous learner, competitive, and driven to be the best and do your best, you might be a fit for our witty team. An appreciation for "its complicated" and a sense of humor are essential to success in this role. If you thrive off of helping people during one of the toughest times in their lives and have a proven track record of success, apply now.
Responsibilities:
- Advocate on behalf of clients by understanding their needs, effectively analyzing the situation and forming a strategy for a plan of action.
- Manage a full case load, ensuring that clients get personalized attention from you as the attorney.
- Settle and negotiate solutions where possible through mediation, settlement conference, and simple document exchange.
- Fight for clients and zealously litigate cases, motions, or issues that can not be resolved through settlement efforts.
- Manage family law cases from start to finish.
- Utilize superior writing skills to draft and approve all legal documents from motions, pleadings, responses, and discovery to briefs.
- Meet with clients and obtain information needed for DRFA. Discuss and review financial information and consistency of data.
- Help drive and facilitate 5-star reviews by satisfied clients.
- Perform quality work that results in happy clients who re-hire us and refer their friends and family members.
- Divide marital assets, including real estate, retirement accounts, debts, vehicles, crypto, and investments when necessary during divorce proceedings. Draft marital balance sheets.
- Read, review, and approve all legal documents drafted by paralegals and support staff, such as pleadings, motions, marital settlement agreements, contracts, judgments, and orders.
- Work in synergy with skilled paralegals and staff members as a part of a high-functioning team.
Qualifications:
- Licensed to practice in the State of Georgia with no prior discipline or disbarment from the Georgia Bar.
- A minimum of three years prior experience as a family law attorney in the State of Georgia (or a minimum of 1 year if you were a paralegal for 5 or more years.
- Prior case management experience working with family law clients or criminal clients, leading a case from start to close.
- Knowledge of Georgia family laws, cases, and procedures.
- Familiarity with metro Atlanta family law judges.
- Prior trial experience in divorce and child custody cases.
- Excellent old-fashioned work ethic. No 9-5 mindsets. We value work-life balance but do not want employees with a clock-out-at-5:00 p.m. mindset. Arrive on time, work efficiently, and ensure deadlines are met and cases are managed in a proactive way to reduce stress on staff and clients.
- Team player who works with our high-functioning team. We have a superior team and do not want any mess spreaders to disrupt this. We have direct communication and not backstabbing. We are professionals, but not sticks in the mud. We are accountable and own it when we make a mistake, learn from it, and move on. We understand that we are engaged in the practice of law. We are seeking an attorney who can enhance and elevate our team.
- Honest, loyal, ethical, and trustworthy.
- Appreciate clients' experience and have a genuine desire to help them with their family law matters.
- Excellent computer and technology skills. Able to learn new software and systems with ease.
- Organized and able to work with established systems and processes. We are not a new company. We have established ways of doing things and need lawyers who can work within our systems and work together to constantly improve them.
- Able to manage a full caseload with the help of our skilled paralegals and legal staff.
- Not afraid to go to court and litigate and fight for clients. Our ideal lawyer can settle cases where possible, but litigate if needed on some or all of the issues.
- Superior client management and case management skills.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills, especially in highly stressful and emotional situations.
About Company:
We are a small family law firm with a fast-moving work environment that requires the ability to think, move quickly, and multitask. We have old-school, old-fashioned work values, a non-office politics team, and high-tech tools and equipment. We have a team of all "A" players.
We will only hire the best talent, and we only want people who fit in with our core values and culture. Our firm has nearly perfect attendance because we understand how absences impact coworkers and clients!
We focus on customer service, teamwork, candor (open communication), forwardness, quality, and continuous learning. We will give you the tools and resources to succeed. You bring the skills, positive attitude, and initiative. We require full, comprehensive background checks, and we check references for all candidates.
A high-speed internet connection at home and a secure, private work area are essential requirements for this role.
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