Immigration Paralegal I

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Full-time • Entry Level
Richardson, TX
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A Paralegal is responsible for coordinating with Attorneys in the preparation, filing, and monitoring of various immigration and nationality law matters. Additionally, a Paralegal should have a comprehensive knowledge of the immigration process, mastery of multiple case types, and increasing company client interaction. This role has excellent career-pathing opportunities including the ability to grow into a Senior Paralegal or other career paths.

  • Under direction of Senior Paralegal/Attorney, takes lead in email/phone client communications.
  • Provides guidance to assignees regarding proprietary systems and case processing.
  • Increased understanding of client communication procedures and requirements.
  • Inputs client services rendered and sends to Accounting for processing.
  • Complete competence of case types previously handled and continually strives to advance and broaden knowledge base; demonstrates increasing levels of independence in case handling.
  • Processes more advanced and varied corporate immigration cases.
  • Evaluates cases, relays concerns, and proactively escalates to the appropriate BAL team members(s).
  • Prepares forms, letters, documents and correspondence for attorney review; adapts tools and resources for casework which deviates from templates; increases knowledge of BAL best practices.
  • Manages status of all filed applications and petitions and finalizes documents after attorney review.
  • Utilizes document and data management systems to prepare, monitor, and record all aspects of client casework as per BAL policy.
  • Prepares internal caseload reports for management.
  • Shares process flow with assignees; Identifies problematic cases and discusses strategies and/or solutions with Attorney.
  • Performs research to obtain information such as background on a company or industry, current wages, processing procedures, standard processing times, etc.
  • Initiates contact with government agencies to obtain necessary information; alerts Senior Paralegal and/or attorney regarding potential process delays/problems.
  • Comfortable and ability to thrive in an extremely high volume environment
  • Demonstrates sound judgement
  • Ability to execute and work well with minimal supervision
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to catch errors and correct work and the work of others
  • Superior client service skills
  • Effectively able to prioritize cases, caseload and other assigned tasks (i.e. projects, company management responsibilities, etc.)
  • Ability to meet deadline and goals
  • MS Office, Scan/Copy; learn, apply and effectively navigate daily use of propriety software
  • Typically at least 1+ year(s) U.S. corporate immigration experience.
  • Bachelor’s Degree; 1-year law-related experience under licensed attorney; or, PL certificate from ABA approved program.
  • competitive pay
  • a discretionary annual bonus
  • a supportive, team oriented culture
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • disability
  • life insurance
  • sick time
  • unlimited vacation
  • 401(k) with company match
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