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Job Description
- Req#: 24-00171
Job Title: Project Attorney
Job #: 7634
Location: Remote - OR & WA only
Duration: 1+ year contract
Top 4 Required Skills:
• JD from an accredited US law school or foreign law degree and LLM Required. Bar license NOT required.
• Communication
• Collaborative
• Attention to detail
Position Summary
Project Attorneys/Specialists ensure their assigned tasks are handled timely and in line with the provided directions and expected results. Ensures that consumer-facing discussions are effective and handled with empathy. This position requires collaboration and coordination with internal teams, project managers, and clients. Attention to quality assurance and meeting client deadlines and deliverables are other key elements of the role. Project Attorneys/Specialists will communicate with clients in a professional manner and demonstrate a client-focused ethos. This role is expected to be an escalation route to review consumer facing inquiries or issues that cannot be resolved by standardized processes.
Job Responsibilities
• Respond to complex inquiries from customers and clients across a variety of communication methods, including phone, email, and written correspondence.
• Adhere to standard protocols, procedures, and instructions from the Project Manager and Supervisors, as well as implementing feedback as required
• Work effectively in a highly collaborative environment with a variety of business partners
• Create, monitor, and update scripting and procedures for claims and correspondence teams to ensure the work they are doing is furthering the goals of the project
• Assist the supervisor or PM in resolving any issues that might arise Monitor the overall health of the case by identifying any errors and creating solutions for resolution
Required Qualifications & Characteristics
• JD from an accredited US law school or foreign law degree and LLM
• Flexible and customer service focused
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are required. Ability to clearly communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences
• Ability to handle changing or competing priorities to support business needs
• Strong technical orientation, excellent computer skills, exceptional planning and organizational skills, critical thinking and a keen attention to detail are all required
• Experience with MS Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook
Key Competencies
Integrity – Behaves in an honest, fair, and ethical manner; shows consistency in words, actions, and commitment; respects the confidentiality of information or concerns shared by others; is honest and forthright with people; carries his/her fair share of the workload; takes responsibility for own mistakes.
Client Focus – Acts with the clients, both internal and external, in mind and sees their needs as a primary focus; builds a sustaining collaborative and productive relationship with clients; seeks to understand client situations, issues, and expectations; takes appropriate action to meet client needs and address concerns; implements or utilizes methods to monitor and evaluate client feedback.
Results-Driven – Sets stretch goals for personal and team accomplishment and works tenaciously to achieve those goals; acts with a sense of urgency; takes the initiative on actions; identifies what needs to be done and acts before being asked; does more than what is normally required in a situation; establishes metrics to monitor progress and measure success.
Entrepreneurial Orientation – Proposes innovative solutions to customers and business partners; encourages and supports entrepreneurial behavior in others; demonstrates willingness to take calculated risks to achieve business goals. Is community minded and not afraid to be self-directed, empowered to act.
Pre-Employment Requirement
All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of our pre-employment screening that may include drug testing, background/criminal check, and if applicable, must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
APR Staffing is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
About APR Staffing
APR Staffing was born from the merger of two well-respected technical staffing firms in Portland. ieSolutions, founded in 2002, enjoyed an impressive reputation as one of the largest locally-owned and most respected technical staffing companies. Professional Resource Group, aka Data Resource Group, founded in 2009, also earned regional acclaim for being a fast-growing and highly-motivated professional staffing agency. Both companies have been recent award winners for the Portland Business Journal's Fastest-Growing Private Companies. The two firms, now as APR Staffing, make for one of the fastest-growing and most-respected professional and technical staffing companies in Oregon and Southwest Washington.
Collaborating with our customers, we augment their workforce with technical and administrative professionals. We provide only high-caliber, professional-grade resources throughout the Pacific Northwest.About the company
Minority-owned staffing agency providing technical & professional services in Oregon and SW Washington. Finding the right fit has never been easier.
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