Paralegal, Employment Law & Benefits (Hybrid in Deerfield/Chicago, IL)

• Associate’s degree or higher with a paralegal certificate OR a High School Diploma/GED and at least 3 years of legal experience (assisting legal document preparation, routine legal research, and data compilation in litigation, real estate, contracting)
• Experience drafting legal documents
• Experience researching complex legal issues
• Experience using legal research tools, such as LexisNexis or Westlaw
• Basic level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: opening a workbook, inserting a row, selecting font style and size, formatting cells as currency, using copy, paste and save functions, aligning text, selecting cells, renaming a worksheet, inserting a column, selecting a chart style, inserting a worksheet, setting margins, selecting page orientation, using spell check and/or printing worksheets)
• Basic level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: opening a document, cutting, pasting and aligning text, selecting font type and size, changing margins and column width, sorting, inserting bullets, pictures and dates, using find and replace, undo, spell check, track changes, review pane and/or print functions)
• Basic skill level in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: inserting, rearranging, hiding and deleting slides, navigating between slides, increasing list level, adding, centering and editing text, changing views, inserting a table or a note, moving objects, printing outline view and/or running a slide show)
• Willing to travel up to 5% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state)

• Undergraduate degree
• Paralegal certificate from an ABA-certified paralegal program
• Experience with project management (for example: planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives)
• Experience in a retail environment and/or healthcare setting

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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