Remote Associate Attorney (Indiana License Required)

Overview

Remote Associate Attorney position with the organization’s creditors’ rights practice group. This role supports meaningful day-to-day legal work, including attending court hearings, preparing, reviewing, and signing substantive pleadings and motions, and communicating with clients and opposing counsel.

Responsibilities

• Attend court hearings
• Monitor files from answer to judgment
• Communicate with customers and attorneys to resolve legal matters
• Provide clients with status updates verbally and through email/websites
• Review file information received from clients for accuracy and completeness
• Summarize legal documents
• Prepare and review declarations and affidavits for truthfulness
• Prepare correspondence to courts, attorneys, and clients
• Prepare and file pleadings
• Draft motions and answers/responses to motions
• Review bankruptcy filings, deceased notifications, and military hits
• Perform online records research

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school
• License to practice law in Indiana (or ability to immediately obtain an Indiana law license)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent analytical, writing, research, investigative, and organizational skills
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, and Excel) and case management software
• Basic typing skills
• Ability to multitask
• Self-motivated
• Ability/desire to work with others to achieve firm and client goals

Other Work Requirements

• Successful completion of pre-employment testing, including a criminal background check, credit check, and drug testing

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive annual salary based upon experience
• Competitive medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance; cost shared between the organization and the employee (full-time only)
• Life insurance fully paid by the organization (full-time only)
• Long-term disability insurance fully paid by the organization (full-time only)
• 401(k) Qualified Retirement Plan with both pre-tax and post-tax (Roth) options available; employee contributions matched up to 4% of annual compensation
• Section 125 Plan (full-time only)

Perks

• 17 firm-paid vacation days annually (full-time only)
• 8 firm-paid holidays per year
• Casual dress when not attending court hearings or meeting clients

Location

Remote