Immigration And Elder Law Paralegal

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Immigration and Elder Law Paralegal
The candidate will assist with serving Spanish monolingual clients. Providing basic rights advice (with attorney supervision), in-person and remote interpretation and translation (both English to Spanish and Spanish to English), conducting intakes, completing court forms, triaging potential clients, coordinating filing and service of process, and communicating case progress to clients and follow-up communications with clients including drafting letters, and other correspondence. Be an integral part of the immigration and elder law teams by providing support and keeping things organized and efficient to increase the overall caseload of the teams. Draft forms to file in court, such as fee waivers, proofs of service, and other more complicated filings (probate and civil unlimited departments in San Francisco and other bay area counties). Execute timely error-free filings and mailings, ensuring they are high-quality and within deadline. Communicate with the clerks about scheduling or filing issues, if needed. Oversee service of process (personal, substitute, and mail). Understand the civil procedure behind service. Use creative methods to locate and serve evasive defendants. Coordinate with the sheriffs or private process servers to ensure quality personal service is completed by deadline. Understand the larger social service network both locally and in the broader Bay Area and when appropriate, refer clients to external mental health, service orgs, and other resources. Provide interpretation, translation, and case management for monolingual Spanish-speaking clients who have immigration or elder law cases. Also do all intake translation for these cases. Prepare polished first drafts of immigration forms for attorney review. Prepare and execute timely, error-free filings in San Francisco Immigration Court. Collect information and supporting documents from clients in an organized and efficient manner, including foreign documents and translations, utilizing creative strategies when needed. Empathetically support elderly clients through difficult discussions about death, terminal illness, and healthcare wishes, and following through with clients to ensure that their estate plans are delivered to them promptly. Provide administrative support to the Frontline team, when needed. Work with the attorney and client to assist with fact-gathering for the client’s case using information technologies, calling possible witnesses, or business or government agencies. Conduct or take notes at all immigration and elder law intakes (if no volunteer is available for this). Provide clients’ rights counseling and case management, including maintaining and providing necessary follow-up with clients. Review documents with clients and obtain their informed signatures. Commit to leading the office in representing our mission and values externally to potential clients, clients, and others as well as internally to all teammates and volunteers. Our values are passion, grit, teamwork, caring, and dynamism. Must have some experience in the legal field and/or office environment. Comfortable translating and interpreting legal information in Spanish. Along with performing client support and legal secretary/paralegal tasks in Spanish. Must have experience using case management systems and comfortability with technology. Must genuinely enjoy working with low-income clients and be committed to providing trauma-informed services. Must be willing to make a two-year commitment to the organization are required. A paralegal certificate are required. Meeting the CA requirements to use the title paralegal are required. Previous experience as a paralegal, legal secretary, or client advocate are required. Previous civil procedure experience.. Experience working with low-income and vulnerable populations are required. Have lived a significant portion of your life in San Francisco County are required.

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