Legal Assistant (Primarily Home)

$47,840 - $73,986/Yr

American Family Insurance Group - Denver, CO

Full-time

Remote - Denver, CO

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

The Legal Assistant position at American Family Insurance is primarily a remote role focused on providing specialized legal support and administrative duties. The role involves conducting research, managing calendars, coordinating tasks, and ensuring the delivery of legal documents. The position requires a solid understanding of legal procedures and terminology, as well as the ability to maintain confidentiality while interacting with various stakeholders in the legal process.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research and prepare background information.
• Receive and respond to inquiries, relaying messages.
• Manage calendars for court appearances, appointments, and meetings.
• Schedule and coordinate tasks for file handlers and monitor progress.
• Handle and distribute electronic mail.
• Screen and respond to incoming mail to facilitate file handling.
• Generate legal and claims correspondence.
• Ensure delivery of documents to courts, opposing counsel, and others.
• Schedule and coordinate with opposing counsel, witnesses, experts, and others for investigations, discovery, depositions, and trials.
• Perform data entry and initial setup of new matters.
• Handle tasks related to payments and closing files.
• Participate in projects and committees.
• Support file handlers with electronic legal databases and claim management systems.
• Assist with training unit employees.
• Administer divisional programs and conduct special projects.
• Coordinate claim information collection for other divisions.
• Maintain and update procedural documents and divisional contact information.
• Organize and perform claim administrative workflow and processing tasks.
• Understand stages of litigation and various legal documents.
• Complete other assignments or participate in projects as needed.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support, or service.
• Demonstrated experience performing legal support duties including interacting with members of the judiciary, opposing and co-counsel, clients, and expert and lay witnesses.
• Demonstrated experience working with confidential documents and situations.
• Demonstrated experience with various PC software applications (e.g. Microsoft Office Suite).
• Demonstrated experience writing and proofreading legal documents for proper grammar and spelling.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of legal procedures, legal terminology, and the judicial system.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of legal ethics rules and the ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with SharePoint, Guidewire/Claims Center, Legal eXchange or Legal Files.

Benefits

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Family leave
• Health insurance
• Loan repayment program
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off