Contract Paralegal

Title: Litigation Paralegal (contract)

Location: Onsite in Chappaqua Crossing, NY

Contract Length: 4 months with potential to extend

Hourly Rate: $30-34

Our client, a healthcare insurance and services company, is seeking a temporary litigation paralegal to assist the Senior Director of Risk Management & Quality Assurance in coordinating the provision of comprehensive risk management services for all insurance, enterprise risk and medico-legal matters relating to the special tasks and activities of the department.

This position will be a full-time contract (40 hours per week, M-F) and is projected to last roughly 4 months with potential to extend. Candidates should be prepared and willing to working onsite.

Responsibilities:

• Manages the occurrence/potential claims reporting program, closely reviewing and monitoring occurrences/claims and trending issues.

• Responsible for coordination of interviews, proactively gathering involved documentation and ensuring secure, protected and confidential file maintenance for litigated matters.

• Responsible for notifying insurance carriers, claims TPA, physicians and attorneys when lawsuits are received.

• Coordinates document discovery, witness discovery, claims analysis, case management, and case closure.

• Coordinate and schedule high-level meetings and conference calls.

• Receive and coordinate all service of process.

• Manage and coordinate all legal requests for physicians.

• Maintains calendars to include coordination and scheduling of meetings, depositions, conference calls, sends calendar invites and reminders, reserves conference rooms

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required. Paralegal Certificate preferred.

• 5+ years of paralegal/legal assistant/risk management experience.

• Experience with legal terms, laws and judiciary guidelines experience with medical terminology.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and Power Point) and Adobe Acrobat.

• Notary (preferred).

Skills:

• Communication and Verbal Proficiency

• Interpersonal Skills

• Listening and Communication Skills

• Reporting Skills

• Scheduling

• Presentation Skills, Organization and Time Management

• Collaboration Skills

• Personal Effectiveness/Credibility

• Flexibility

• Technical Capacity

• Stress Management/Composure