Law Clerk

Dormer Harpring, LLC

Law Clerk

Denver, CO
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    We are looking for an assertive, ambitious, kind, and outgoing team member to begin working full-time for our fast-growing plaintiffs’ personal injury law firm. The right candidate will work within a team of one associate lawyer, a litigation paralegal, and a pre-litigation paralegal. This position can be part-time or full-time for the right candidate. Night or part-time law students are a good fit for this role if seeking full-time. Full-time students are a better fit for a part-time role. We use FileVine as a case management system and various software automation to make our team's lives easier. We're a mostly paperless firm. Compensation: $45,000-$58,000 annually, or ~$22-$27/hour + quarterly performance bonuses Responsibilities: • Support Litigation Paralegals and Attorneys by being the first point of task delegation • Collecting and organizing evidence for disclosures and trial exhibits. • Drafting & filing litigation documents, including disclosures, pleadings & written discovery • Assist paralegal with pre-litigation tasks (initial case investigative research, demand drafting, caselaw research using Westlaw as needed for miscellaneous letters to defendants) • Scheduling attorney meetings with witnesses, experts, and clients • Calendaring & managing litigation deadlines • Scheduling and noticing depositions • Assist paralegal with litigation tasks (serve defendants using Proof Portal, draft deposition topic letters, draft A2 disclosures, draft written discovery, draft case management orders, draft trial management orders) • Assist attorney with litigation tasks (draft mediation statements, conduct legal research using Westlaw, draft complaints, draft motions in limine, draft miscellaneous reply and response motions) • Attend expert witness meetings, lay witness meetings, mediations, depositions, and trials as needed • Assist with trial preparation (draft motions in limine, draft trial briefs, draft jury instructions, review depositions, and create designations, cut deposition designation videos) Qualifications: • Legal research experience or current law student preferred • Comfortable learning new technologies and software • Excellent reading, writing, and people skills • Attention to detail • Empathy for personal injury victims • Client and Team-oriented • Possessing personal grit for dealing with stressful and time-sensitive events in litigation and trial Compensation: $45,000 - $58,000 annually + quarterly performance bonuses

    • Support Litigation Paralegals and Attorneys by being the first point of task delegation • Collecting and organizing evidence for disclosures and trial exhibits.  • Drafting & filing litigation documents, including disclosures, pleadings & written discovery • Assist paralegal with pre-litigation tasks (initial case investigative research, demand drafting, caselaw research using Westlaw as needed for miscellaneous letters to defendants) • Scheduling attorney meetings with witnesses, experts, and clients • Calendaring & managing litigation deadlines • Scheduling and noticing depositions • Assist paralegal with litigation tasks (serve defendants using Proof Portal, draft deposition topic letters, draft A2 disclosures, draft written discovery, draft case management orders, draft trial management orders) • Assist attorney with litigation tasks (draft mediation statements, conduct legal research using Westlaw, draft complaints, draft motions in limine, draft miscellaneous reply and response motions) • Attend expert witness meetings, lay witness meetings, mediations, depositions, and trials as needed • Assist with trial preparation (draft motions in limine, draft trial briefs, draft jury instructions, review depositions, and create designations, cut deposition designation videos)

  • Compensation
    $45,000-$58,000 per year