Associate Attorney (Hybrid)

Description:

What you will do:
Purpose of this Role: The Associate Attorney provides exceptional legal representation to financial institutions in a wide variety of creditor rights' matters focused primarily on residential foreclosure, bankruptcy and replevin. The Associate Attorney identifies effective, practical, and innovative solutions to emerging challenges in a fast-paced, high-volume, and team focused environment.

Value to the Team: The Associate Attorney will contribute to the legal team by collaborating with team members to share knowledge and expertise, provide guidance and oversight to non-attorney staff to ensure efficiency and compliance with laws, regulations, client contractual requirements, court rules and best practices; collectively solving client problems, and ensuring the quality and timeliness of legal services provided.

Duties and Responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to:

• Work with default servicing and mortgage bank clients to resolve legal issues.
• Conduct a comprehensive review of all loan documents, financial information, and correspondence.
• Draft responses to motions and affirmative defenses received from defendants.
• Draft, review and ensure proper filing/mailing of pleadings, notices, motions, and correspondence.
• Attend in person and video court hearings.
• Identify and address both routine and complex legal issues and develop creative solutions.
• Identify causes of action, affirmative defenses, and counterclaims and develop strategy and evidentiary basis to advocate for clients in court.
• Review documents and provide direction and oversight to non-legal staff.
• Lead by example with regard to support of the compliance and ethics programs within the firm.
• Other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• High degree of organizational skills
• Detail oriented with strong analytical skills and problem-solving capabilities
• Strong time-management and prioritization skills
• Self-driven with ability to work independently or collaboratively, as needed
• Excellent and adaptive interpersonal and communication skills
• Commitment to providing exceptional, responsive, and time-bound client service
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite of programs (Word, Excel, etc.) and computer savvy
• Compliance focused
• Emotional intelligence

Training and Experience:

• Attorney Licensed in following state(s): PA licensure required, either NJ or NY licensure preferred also, but not required.
• All levels of experience will be considered for our current openings.

• Multi-state licensure (PA, NJ and/or NY), or willingness to obtain multi-state licensure
• Bankruptcy experience
• Federal Licensure
• Knowledge of foreclosure and/or bankruptcy processes

• Ability to sit or stand for long periods.
• Ability to remain focused for extended periods.
• Ability to work extra hours to accomplish goals.
• Ability to work on computers for a significant portion of the day.
• Ability to travel domestically, if necessary.

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