Description:
Description:The primary responsibility of a Family Law Litigation Attorney in our Firm is to represent and advise clients in various family cases.
Responsibilities:
- Manage cases assigned directly to you and perform/delegate case work to paralegals appropriately
- Provide competent and timely provision of legal services, including but not limited to:
- Represent and advise clients in a way that best supports their interests in their legal situation
- Create a legal strategy and provide clients with substantive legal advice. Execute legal strategies
- Drafting complex pleadings, motions, briefs, orders, etc. and/or reviewing and approving pleadings, motions, orders, and other legal production documents drafted by paralegals and/or legal assistants
- Overseeing and analyzing discovery
- Conducting legal research
- Drafting legal memos and preparing case outlines for depositions, mediations, settlement conferences, and hearings/trials
- Conducting initial client meetings
- Communicating with witnesses and gathering evidence
- Providing direction to and answering legal questions from support staff
- Represent and advocate for clients in settlement negotiations, at mediation, in deposition, and in court for motions, trials, and other types of hearings
- Attend case status meetings and take necessary actions
- Meet all court-ordered deadlines
- Record time entries, on a daily basis, as appropriate, as billable or non-billable in the case management system
Qualifications:
- The Family Law Litigation Attorney will have a four-year bachelor's degree, a juris doctorate, and be licensed to practice law in West Virginia and/or Ohio.
- The Family Law Litigation Attorney will demonstrate proficiency in litigation skills.
