Legal Service Specialist
About The Position
The Legal Service Specialist receives and manages legal demands served on the BankUnited, including levies, garnishments, freezes, summonses, subpoenas, restraining notices, tax levies, and other legal process. The role handles intake, review, research, processing, tracking, and responses, coordinating with internal business units and requesting parties to ensure accurate, complete, and timely responses and compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements. It also manages related documentation, payments, account actions, agency requests, and legal-demand records. Interstate air travel may be required. Senior-level responsibilities may include managing Grand Jury memorandums and the Grand Jury master log, ensuring the BSA/AML and Quality Assurance Departments are notified of Grand Jury subpoenas, balancing general ledgers monthly, and ensuring defined documents are scanned and stored electronically while originals are filed appropriately. The specialist must comply with applicable federal and state laws, regulations, guidance, Bank policies, procedures, and required training, including requirements related to anti-money laundering. The role also requires identifying and reporting suspicious activity. Candidates who reside within BankUnited's footprint may be given preference.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED required.
- At least three years of related experience in banking operations and/or managing legal process, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, preferred.
Nice To Haves
- Associate's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.
- Legal Process certification preferred.
- Candidates residing within BankUnited's footprint may be given preference.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate and fulfill research documentation requests in legal demands.
- Administer limited guardianship accounts and remit court-ordered checks.
- Establish and maintain liaisons with law firms and attorneys.
- Negotiate reimbursement from law firms to the Bank for research required by legal demands and court orders.
- Ensure summonses, complaints, and garnishments are sent to the law firm in a timely manner.
- Accept legal demands served and maintain logs for them.
- Facilitate management of limited special asset loans to ensure compliance with agreements.
- Prepare invoices and dispatch documents to requesting agencies.
- Remit funds to legal agencies within the appropriate time frame or as ordered by a court.
- Seize account-holder funds in response to demands from legal agencies, including the Department of Revenue and IRS.
- Maintain logs for legal-demand files sent to storage.
- Administer the intake, review, research, processing, tracking, and response to legal demands served on the Bank.
- Coordinate with internal business units and requesting parties to provide accurate, complete, and timely responses and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
- For senior-level duties, manage Grand Jury memorandums and the Grand Jury master log, and ensure BSA/AML and Quality Assurance are notified of Grand Jury subpoenas received.
- For senior-level duties, ensure general ledgers are balanced correctly each month.
- For senior-level duties, ensure defined documents and paperwork are scanned and stored electronically and originals are stored in the appropriate file.
- Comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance, Bank policies and procedures, and required training, including anti-money-laundering requirements.
- Identify and report suspicious activity.
- Assist other department staff as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
