Foreclosure - Specialist [IL]

Overview

This role supports a full-service creditors’ rights law firm providing bankruptcy, replevin, and loss mitigation services. Work focuses on drafting and processing legal documentation, managing client and case communications, and supporting attorneys in a high-volume, time-sensitive environment.

Responsibilities

• Draft and prepare assignments, motions, affidavits, and other legal documents
• Ensure timely, courteous, and thorough responses to a heavy volume of email correspondence
• Develop and maintain congenial relationships with business associates and clients
• Provide exceptional customer service across all levels of interaction
• Support attorneys in a high-volume, time-sensitive atmosphere
• Prepare and file status updates prior to scheduled hearings
• Provide regular, timely client status updates and conduct continual follow-up on outstanding documents and/or services
• Review expired Notices of Default and communicate with clients to ensure the most updated figures are received
• Monitor for executed client declarations
• File client declarations with the court

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Experience with client systems such as LPS, Tempo, Vendorscape and others is preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Commitment to exceptional customer service
• Ability to communicate courteously and effectively with borrowers, clients, attorneys, other internal employees, and outside parties
• Ability to work with others in a congenial, team-oriented manner
• Exceptional organizational skills, including the ability to multi-task and adapt to continual change
• Strong attention to detail
• High-level proficiency in the MS Office suite
• Proficiency in internet research activities
• Good understanding of the legal process surrounding foreclosure preferred

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Prolonged time sitting at a desk typing, using, and looking at a computer
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Compensation & Benefits

Full-time employees receive:

• 4 weeks of PTO from day one (increases with tenure)
• Paid Parental and Grandparent Leave
• 7 Paid Company Holidays and your birthday off every year
• Full suite of healthcare insurance options including health, dental, vision, STD, LTD, Accident, Critical Illness, Voluntary Life and AD&D coverage, and more
• Company-covered Term Life Insurance, AD&D Insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
• 401k (with company match)
• Extensive Training and Development Opportunities
• Flexible work schedules including in-office, hybrid, and remote working capabilities

Location

Practices across Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Alabama, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Illinois, with national bankruptcy, replevin, and loss mitigation services.