Paralegal
Ateneo de Manila University
- Quezon City, PhilippinesKatipunan Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, Quezon City, Metro Manila, PhilippinesQuezon CityMetro ManilaPhilippinesPhilippines
- Full timeFULL_TIME
Expired 5 years ago
2019-02-27T16:00:00+00:00Job closed.
Job Description
Job Summary
Under the supervision of the Director of the Ateneo Legal Services Center, the Paralegal is responsible for docket-keeping and case-status updating. He/she also provides messengerial and case-filing support
Job Responsibilities
- Case-status updating
- Confirms case status with courts, agencies and supervising attorneys.
- Monitors implementation of processes requested from the court (including but not limited to issuance of summons, subpoenas and warrants of arrest, and enforcement of judgement).
- Follows up on inquiries with government and other agencies.
- Filing support
- Prepares required number of copies of pleadings and motions, together with their annexes in coordination with supervising attorneys, to be filed in court in coordination with supervising attorneys.
- Ensures proper and timely filing of pleadings and motions in court and service to other parties.
- Docket-keeping
- Receives and records orders, pleadings, resolutions, decisions, notices and other processes.
- Inputs information into case management database and calendar.
- Keeps case files organized.
- Trial preparation
- Validates information on clients, opposing parties, case proceedings and other matters relevant to the case being handled.
- Conducts records research.
- Locates and contacts witnesses.
- Messengerial support
- Delivers documents in a safe, efficient and confidential manner.
- Maintains a proper record of proofs of delivery.
- Establishes contact persons in government agencies and courts for faster response time on requests.
- Others
- Performs other work related tasks that may be assigned by immediate supervisor.
Qualification:
- Bachelor’s Degree, with some units in law preferred
- With two (2) years of relevant working experience
- Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems
- Knowledge of court procedures and requirements for filing and service to other parties of pleading, motions, and other court documents
- With communication and interpersonal skills
- Time management and attention to details
Minimum Qualifications
Perks and Benefits
Paid Holidays
Paid Vacation Leave
Paid Sick Leave
Maternity & Paternity Leave
Single Parent Leave
Special Leave Benefits for Women
Retirement Benefit Plans
Life Insurance
Medical / Health Insurance
Required Skills
- Record Keeping
- Clerical Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Time Management
- Critical Thinking
- Data Management
- Microsoft / MS Office
Jobs Summary
- Job Level
- Associate / Supervisor
- Job Category
- Administration and Coordination
- Educational Requirement
- Bachelor's degree graduate
- Recruiter response to application
- Sometimes
- Office Address
- Katipunan Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
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About Ateneo de Manila University
The Ateneo de Manila University (Ateneo) is one of the leading universities in the Philippines. More than 150 years in existence, the Ateneo has grown into a major Jesuit institution. Officially it became a university in 1959. It offers over 100 academic degree programmes.
Ateneo offers Basic Education (Grade School, Junior and Senior High School). In addition, the Loyola Schools (college) is made up of four schools (Social Sciences; Humanities; Science and Engineering; and Management) that offer graduate and undergraduate degrees, with a total enrolment of about 10,000 students per year. The Ateneo has 4 professional schools located in 3 campuses in Quezon City, Makati City and Pasig City (Business; Government; Law; and Medicine and Public Health), with about 4,000 professional postgraduate students.
It has an array of research centres, 11 of which are recognized as Centres of Excellence by the Philippine Commission on Higher Education. In addition to a European Studies Programme, it has a Centre for Asian Studies that fosters comparative research on East and Southeast Asia.
The Ateneo has 207 partnerships with universities around the world (82 in Europe, 87 in Asia, 11 in Australia and New Zealand, and 27 in North and South America) and is a member of the ASEAN Universities Network and 3 other international university networks. The Ateneo’s Rizal Library is the most advanced in the Philippines with over 307,000 titles in its collection and online access to most major academic journals.