Description:
The Position:A leading Texas, PI firm, headquartered in Austin is expanding. Success, demand, and expansion are creating an opportunity for a Personal Injury Litigation Attorney to join a top-notch, highly regarded, and growing team.
Responsibilities:
- Attending trials, arbitrations, depositions, mediations, and other court appearances.
- Preparing pleadings and motions, drafting discovery, mediation briefs, and trial briefs.
- Ability to adhere to strict deadlines while multi-tasking and working in a fast-moving litigation environment is necessary.
- Settle and negotiate personal injury cases.
- Keep clients fully informed by communicating with clients to understand their legal concerns and needs to help provide them with essential client service.
- Accurately value and develop cases.
- Document files with notes and records using.
- Provide clients with an accurate accounting of their settlements.
- Excellent organizational skills and time management is a must.
- Be able to work well with legal assistants.
- Have ownership and a strong knowledge of a portfolio.
- Prosecute cases in a timely manner.
- Return client calls.
- Remain current on federal and state laws, regulations, and practices affecting firm business.
Knowledge, Skills, & Experience:
- An active Texas Bar License.
- Experience in Personal Injury.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as a licensed attorney in any jurisdiction is required.