Workers Compensation Legal Assistant

Goldberg Segalla, a dynamic and collaborative law firm with a national presence, seeks a highly motivated and organized individual to join its team as a Workers’ Compensation Legal Assistant. This position can be based in Albany, Buffalo, White Plains, Garden City, Syracuse, or New York, NY. This job is responsible for assisting with a wide range of legal tasks that enhance the attorneys’ effectiveness. Job duties will include, but they are not limited to, opening and closing files, completing budgets, drafting documents, calendaring deadlines, sending reports to clients and saving to the document management system. This position requires knowledge of law offices’ common practices and the legal field.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with filings including PH-16.2/OC-400.5, appeals, rebuttals, and RFA-2
• Draft and complete Affidavit of Service
• Calendar placeholders
• Save all emails, documents and filings in the document management system
• Send out hearing reports, interim reports, and deposition reports
• Open files and complete information sheets
• Close files and maintain closing tracker
• Coordinate witness prep
• Maintain hearing report trackers
• Assist with completing and circulating post hearing directives
• Assist with budgets and rejected invoices
• Serve surveillance and assist with evidence cover letter
• Daily management of attorney’s billable entries
• Daily reminder of deadlines
• Organize and reassign documents and emails from 18000 folders

Experience/Requirements:

• Regularly required to clearly communicate and exchange information in English
• Strong organization and time management skills
• Regularly required to observe and assess data and documents, in printed form and on computer screens
• May be requested to work beyond normal work hours and weekends for special projects
• Works well in a team environment
• Ability to work independently within general guidelines and minimal supervision
• Ability to recognize the need for confidentiality of information and to maintain such confidence
• Ability to respond to internal or external inquiries, including those of a sensitive, confidential, or adversarial nature
• Exceptional organization skills.
• Positive attitude.
• Excellent writing and telephone communication skills.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize workload.
• Teamwork oriented.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and challenging environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs.
• Knowledge of Workers’ Compensation legal practice.
• Knowledge of legal terminology and principles.
• Knowledge of medical and insurance claims terminology.
• Ability to analyze legal documents and ensure accuracy.

Benefits:
The hourly salary range for this position is $19 to $21.50. Actual pay may be adjusted based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. This position also offers bonuses, and a full benefits package. Our benefits package includes, but is not limited to, health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) plan, flexible spending, and more.

Goldberg Segalla isn’t merely a business—we’re a community. We value the diversity of our team and strive to create a collaborative and enjoyable culture for everyone, where leadership is rewarded, and efficiency, mutual respect, and working together for the common good are traits we all embody.

Goldberg Segalla is a national civil litigation firm with offices spanning major metro markets across the U.S., providing strategic coverage wherever our clients do business. As a firm of experienced litigators and trial attorneys, Goldberg Segalla's capabilities span business and commercial disputes, employment and labor, insurance coverage, product liability, and more. Today, our more than 500 attorneys are trusted counselors to public and private clients in key sectors and industries including construction and energy, transportation, manufacturing, retail and hospitality, and insurance.