Description:
Overview:Position Type:
Full Time
Education Level:
Law School
Description:
Stark & Stark has a full-time opening for a Personal Injury Associate Attorney in our Newtown, PA office. The ideal candidate will have excellent legal research and writing skills, an entrepreneurial spirit, and be self-directed and detail oriented. Candidates must be able to organize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. The right candidate will have the extraordinary opportunity to continue their professional development in a challenging but collegial environment.
Stark & Stark's Newtown, PA office is open to considering applications from personal injury lawyers with exceptional credentials and a genuine passion for the law.
Qualifications:
Responsibilities:
- The position will support a personal injury practice with the oversight of other attorneys.
- Some experience handling a high-volume caseload in a fast paced, results oriented environment is a plus.
- This role will be handle depositions, drafting, and responding to pleadings and discovery. As well as writing and researching legal issues for briefs, pleadings, ascertaining experts, reviewing medical records and discovery.
- Must ideally grasp how to effectively evaluate and analyze the merits of a personal injury claim.
- Familiarity with providing guidance and counsel to clients through effective communication.
- Should have knowledge of how to effectively negotiate, settle, litigate, and try cases
Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate will have at least 1-3 years of Plaintiff's Personal Injury litigation experience.
- Strong analytical, drafting, writing, research, and negotiation skills.
- Excellent organizational skills, high attention to detail and accuracy, and the ability to work in a deadline driven practice is required.
- Must have demonstrated the ability to work collaboratively, as part of a team and the interpersonal skills to interact directly with clients.
- Experience working with The Court of Common Pleas- Clerkship with the following counties – Lehigh, Northampton, Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, Delaware, and Philadelphia.
- Must be licensed to practice in the State of Pennsylvania.
