Paralegal Job Description Writing For Recruiting

This paralegal job description clearly states what the potential paralegal should expect as a full time salaried employee at this law firm.


Transform Experience Into Opportunity:

If you ready to work with business leaders and their teams to solve complex problems and drive
change, then a career at ABCLegal is for you. ABCLegal is recognized as one of the United States’
leading debt recovery law firms. We offer the highest quality debt recovery services to blue-chip
corporate clients all over United States, including offices in Long Beach, California, New York, New York, Sarasota, Florida, and Chicago, Illinois.

We have a vacancy for a Paralegal to join our Long Beach office. This position is a full-time, salaried position with full benefits.

The Role

You will be working in the Corporate Recovery Services department and your main duties include (but are not limited to): drafting specific delinquency notices, creating recovery letters and other corporate pending legal documents, maintaining selected and specified files, liaising with clients and potential clients, partnering (where applicable) with external legal firms, preparing case specific reports, preparing for
settlement and general file management duties.

The most important aspect of this position requires expert research skills. You will be asked to prepare materials based on the research you perform that will serve as the basis for any court proceedings or potential litigation. Most of your time spent will be done so collecting important research data.

Salary/Benefits:

ABCLegal currently has twenty paralegals spread throughout the country, each earning between
$65,000 – $75,000 (including superannuation) depending on experience. In addition to salary, we also offer paid maternity leave, mentoring programs, and more.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including health and life insurance, a superannuation savings plan, employee stock options, professional development and certification courses.

To Succeed in this Role, the Ideal Candidate Would Possess the Following Attributes:

· Expert case specific research skills
· A dedication to quality client service,
· The ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines,
· The ability to think quickly in complex situations,
· The ability to solve challenging problems in a pressure filled environment
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work well in a team environment

Professional Qualifications:

· Minimum of seven years in-house and/or law firm experience in the debt recovery field
· Bachelor’s Degree required; accredited certification in addition to degree a plus

If your skills fit the description of this position, please submit your resume along with a cover letter and a minimum of five professional references to John Smith at careers@ABCLegal.com.

All qualified applicants will be considered. Interviews will take place one on one as well as in a group setting.

Modeling your paralegal job description around this sample is a great way to attract the candidates you want to interview.

The reality is, every paralegal or aspiring legal assistant worth their weight in gold has an idea what their salary range ought to be.  The data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics spells this number out letter by letter, state by state for all to see.  So does it benefit you to include an actual salary in your paralegal job description?  It will benefit you to disclose the number in your job posting for some not so obvious reasons.


First, the typical job posting forums (Craigslist, Career Builder, etc) have thousands of folks perusing their pages every minute of the day.  While you will undoubtedly get candidate responses that won’t even come close to what you need, you might unknowingly eliminate a hot prospect by not indicating what they will be earning up front.  If the paralegal job description was drawn up by an assistant with little thought put into it (I see some mind numbing job descriptions right now and they are the rule, not the exception) the salary disclosure might get a high quality candidate to respond to you ad based on the number alone.  Without it, they will move right on to the next post.  Don’t forget, you need a strong paralegal just as much as they need the job.   Give a little, in this case little would be information, and you will get a little.

Second, it will save you time.  Again, there will always be a segment of people that will not qualify for what you are offering.  You effectively reduce the amount of unqualified legal assistants that will apply for the position.  In a weak job market there are always more workers than there are jobs (so it is in theory) but talent always lands somewhere.  The paralegal job description you construct needs to be detailed; the salary information should be publicly available in that job posting isn’t descriptive.

Lastly, disclosing the salary requirements of a paralegal at your firm leaves less room for negotiation.  That is a positive when it comes to the final job offer.  Without disclosing the paralegal salary information, you might overpay a prospect that you really like and are excited about once they discuss what their salary requirements will be.  No one in the right mind is going to sit in front of you at an interview knowing the job pays $60,000 a year and try to negotiate $80,000.  If you find a candidate that does, you’ll never come to an agreement.  This is the biggest time waste, not to mention the waste of energy, a lawyer can go through.

Paralegal salary requirements should always precede the paralegal job description.  Doing so will save you time, get you more qualified candidates, and help ease the salary negotiation process.  If you look at some of the current paralegal job ads on the major job boards, you will see some that do and some that do not.  It’s the ads that do include paralegal salary data that stand to reel in the prospects that end up making your firm more money in the long run.