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Job Title: Paralegal Location: Newark NJ 07102 Duration: 06+ months Pay Rate: $24.24/hr. on W2 without benefits Work hours: 9:00 to 5:00 Dress Code: Business Casual Job Description:- Provides secretarial /paralegal assistance to agency executives in legal environments who have complex program or operational responsibilities. Performs research, management, and case investigative work. Drafts affidavits, pleadings, briefs, and interrogatories. Prepares exhibit books. Reads and summarizes depositions for trial use. Responds to plaintiff's discovery requests. Interview witnesses and defendants to prepare for trial. Uses a word processing system to key, proofread, and edit letters, memoranda, briefs, pleadings, expense, travel, and miscellaneous forms from handwritten drafts, dictation, and typed drafts. Takes and transcribes legal dictationu2014types routine correspondence. Answers the telephone, takes messages, directs calls, receives clients, and distributes deliveries. Performs other assigned duties such as mail, creating case files and filing, completing and maintaining forms, and making travel arrangements. Considerable knowledge of the State and/or federal court systems, of legal case management, and litigation support techniques. Considerable knowledge of legal terminology, office / administrative management ability, with a variety of clerical/administrative duties. Ability to use word processing software/systems. Paralegal training or experience.Required Experience:- Provides secretarial /paralegal assistance to agency executives in legal environments who have complex program or operational responsibilities.Required Skills:- Ability to draft letters and memos.- Skill in scanning documents.- Experience with document preparation (briefs and complaints).- Knowledge of e-filing procedures and packaging/mailing.- Ability to schedule and manage meetings via Zoom and Teams.- Proficiency in maintaining calendars.- Capacity to handle confidential information.- Skill in screening and routing calls.About our Company: - 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., is one of the fastest growing IT Service Integrator and Workforce Solution companies in the United States. Founded in 1997, 22nd Century Technologies is a Certified National Minority Business Enterprise with 6,000+ people including 600+ Cyber SMEs nationwide supporting our customers in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. With HQs in Somerset, NJ and Mclean, VA, 22nd Century has 14 offices throughout the United States. As part of our unrelenting focus on quality and compliance, 22nd Century Technologiesu2019 delivery is based on Certified Matured Processes including CMMI L3 Dev & SVC, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, and ISO 9001 quality processes. With a strong focus on the public sector, 22nd Century currently holds government contracts with 14 out of 15 Federal Executive agencies including DoD, 37 other Federal agencies, 50 States, 115+ Local agencies, and 37 School Districts. In the last three years, we have expanded our services to Fortune 500 and other commercial clients and currently support 80+ commercial clients. Recognized among u201cBest Company to Work Foru201d by Forbes, 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., consistently exceeds our clientsu2019 expectations by focusing on their absolute satisfaction with jobs while keeping our employees motivated. u201c22nd Century Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer