Paralegal Fellow

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Paralegal Fellow

The candidate will help develop program infrastructure to scale service delivery, including document automation, workflow management systems, templates, and forms. Commit to learning how to provide limited scope legal services and leveraging the informal domestic relations trial process to scale access to legal help. Collaborate with the program team, including director, other fellows, paralegals, and clerks, and with the broader organization, including the legal products team, to deliver and improve services. Support community legal education program development, including outreach, curriculum development, networking, volunteer recruitment, and ambassadorship. Use the organization’s tech stack to optimize workflow and communications. Use and help build the organization’s internal knowledge base regarding substantive legal and operational issues. Do extensive, substantive legal work, including legal research, discovery compilation and analysis, asset distribution calculations, trial preparation, and document drafting. Help develop a work experience and training program that satisfies the supervised work requirements of an Oregon State Bar Paralegal Licensure Program; and Help make it fun because life is too short for work to be a bummer. Graduation from an accredited paralegal degree program OR at least 5 years work experience as a paralegal. Law School graduates who have not yet joined a Bar are also welcome. Spanish fluency strongly preferred (understanding, speaking, and writing). Proficient working in a highly digitized office and across multiple applications. Comfortable working remotely for the foreseeable future.

Company info

The Commons Law Center
810 NW Marshall St, 300
Portland
Oregon
United States 97209
Website : https://thecommonslawcenter.org