Legal specialist vs senior paralegal

Differences between legal specialist and senior paralegal duties and responsibilities

Legal specialist example responsibilities.

• Attain signing authority training certificate to sign motions for relief upon filing complex transactions.
• Prepare and distribute payroll manage daily office operations and equipment and maintain supplies for office to run effectively.
• Achieve award for increasing efficiency by extensively communicating with debtors' attorneys and monitoring trustee activities on a daily basis.
• Review bankruptcy filing notifications and updating appropriate fields and workstations on MSP and LPS systems.
• Review bankruptcy filings and claims using various proprietary applications including NDC, AACER, and LPS.
• Utilize client systems such as Newtrak/LPS, AS400, LHIS, NDC and BAPS.
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Senior paralegal example responsibilities.

• Achieve sole responsibility for administration of all estates and guardianships.
• Respond to active litigation in collaboration with internal custodians and external counsel, including responding to discovery requests and subpoenas.
• Handle all corporate matters including annual shareholder documentation and shareholder meetings, prepare contracts and coordinate execution, and provide litigation support
• Edit and proofread initial drafts, transcribes dictation and perform cite checking, copy assembly/attachments for filing and/or mailing.
• Draft and prepare legal documents, correspondence, corporate resolutions and UCC's, together with file maintenance and organization.
• Position entail all secretarial correspondence, dictation, expense reporting, record keeping and the handling of settlement documents and payments.
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