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Job DescriptionSalary: $45k-$55k Legal Assistant/ Paralegal Our legal team is committed to providing each client with quality counsel, innovative solutions, and personalized service. Founded in 2000, the firm offers the legal expertise of its 115+ attorneys, who have accumulated experience and problem-solving skills over decades of practice. We are a vibrant, busy, and growing full-service law firm looking to increase to its talented ranks of professional staff by adding a Legal Assistant with a demonstrated interest and experience of 1-3 years in a legal administrative capacity. Key Responsibilities: • Client Intake & Communication, • Answer phones, take accurate messages, and ensure theyre routed with appropriate urgency and followup to resolution, • Greet clients and coordinate communications in a professional, clientfocused manner, • Calendar & Docket Management, • Maintain detailed calendar for guardianship practice., • Schedule and coordinate internal and external meetings, court appearances, and client appointments, • Document Preparation & Filing, • Service of legal documents; prepare simple pleadings and assemble exhibits for court filings, • Create, edit, format, and proofread letters, memos, and other documents in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, • Efile with NYSCEF and other portals; coordinate service of process via service companies, • File documents with state and administrative agencies (electronic and paper), ensuring compliance with deadlines, • Administrative Support, • Arrange conference calls and meetings; manage travel and expense reports, • Create and maintain paper and electronic files; handle photocopying, scanning, and printing requests, • Open new client matters, run conflict checks, and submit electronic approvals, • Special Projects & Learning, • Assist with basic legal research and case summaries in guardianship and elderlaw matters, • Participate in training sessions and take on ad hoc projects to develop paralegal skills Knowledge, Skills & Attributes • 1-3 years of experience providing administrative support in a legal environment (paralegal internships or coursework considered), • Experience with e-filing documents with NYSCEF strongly preferred, • Familiarity with elder law or guardianship matters is a plus, • Bachelors degree or paralegal certificate preferred, but not required, • Proactive, anticipatory thinker with excellent clientservice and problemsolving skills, • Strong interpersonal abilities; works cooperatively with all levels of staff, • Solid computer skills, including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, • Ability to think clearly and work well under pressure in a fastpaced environment Benefits • Medical, Dental, 401(k), PTO, and more, • Handson mentorship from experienced guardianship and elderlaw attorneys, • Support for professional development and paralegal certification, • A collaborative, growthoriented culture in our Lake Success office

Job Description Overview: Somekh and Associates is a growing elder law/estate planning law firm in Garden City as of August 1, 2025. Our friendly office is seeking two (2) organized, self-directed, legal assistants with a desire to learn about the field of Elder Law and Estate Planning. Flexible hours (9 am-5 pm/Monday-Friday). Salary commensurate with experience. Honest and accurate reporting of hours is required. This Job will begin as soon as possible. Please only apply if you know you will be able to begin working within 2 weeks of being hired. Compensation: $35,000 - $40,000 yearly Responsibilities: DUTIES (including but not limited to the following): SECRETARIAL/ ADMINISTRATIVE: • Ordering office supplies, • Scanning in documents and titling them properly, • Printing Stamps and labels for mailings, • Calendaring Fair Hearing/ Court Notices ESTATE PLANNING: • Drafting Power of Attorneys, Health Care Proxies, Trusts, Pour-over Wills, Certification of Trusts, and other similar documents using software, • Drafting Wills, • Drafting Deeds and ordering ACRIS/ transfer tax documents, • Being available to witness/notarize ESTATE ADMINISTRATION: • Preparing Probate/Administration/ Small Estate petitions, Waivers, Citations, Notices, and other necessary documents, • Obtaining an EIN, • E-filing petitions using NYSCEF MEDICAID APPLICATIONS: Extensive contact with the client is needed Including but not limited to: • Helping clients gather documents needed, • Obtaining medical records from the client’s doctors, • Ensuring the client signs all the necessary documents, • Reviewing bank statements for transfers, • Preparing Pooled Trust applications, • Must have at least 1-3 years of experience working in a law firm setting. Preference will be given to those with prior relevant law firm experience in elder law, estate planning, and estate administration., • Must be sharp, independent, self-directed, and quick to learn, • Computer Savvy Experience with the following programs: • Clio Manage and Clio Grow, • ElderCounsel, • HotDocs, • NYSCEF E-filing, • MEDS, • ACRIS About Company Somekh and Associates is a growing elder law & estate planning law firm in Garden City.

Bachelor’s degree and/or Paralegal Certificate. General Liability Defense Paralegal. They are currently seeking a Full-time General Litigation Paralegal with 4+ years of experience.

Commercial Litigation Paralegal. They are currently seeking a Full-time Commercial Litigation Paralegal with at least 5 years of litigation experience. If they have additional experience in administration (overseeing some paralegals and handling that admin), huge plus!.

Corporate Paralegal (Transactional) –. They are currently seeking a Corporate Paralegal (transactions) with at least 1-3 years of experience for its Long Island location. Bachelor’s degree and/or Paralegal Certificate.

Our client is a well-established law firm with a concentration in estate planning, trust and estate administration, elder law, and special needs planning. They are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Legal Assistant/Paralegal to provide critical administrative and paralegal support to its estate

Our client is a prominent Long Island Personal Injury Law Firm.They specialize in the representation of clients within Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Worker's Compensation, Mass Tort, and more.Position is located in Nassau County.Main Responsibilities/Requirements:.Support attorneys through t