Grace Estate Law is a small, but rapidly expanding law firm of focused, career-driven individuals who thrive on helping the firm’s clients. With passion, empathy, experience, and skill, the Grace team understands how to hold space for clients during difficult conversations and guide them through creating a lasting and meaningful legacy. We don’t believe in resting on our natural gifts. Our team is dedicated to growing together by overcoming challenges, learning, and improving our practices so we continue to provide unparalleled service. The firm’s full-time team members enjoys many perks and benefits including health insurance, life insurance, short term disability, paid time off plus paid holidays, and performance-incentive bonuses.
Open Positions
Are you experienced, yet ready to grow? Are you focused, empathetic, passionate, and driven? Apply now at Grace Estate Law!
We help caregivers, supporters, and the most resilient clients create meaningful legacies with confidence and Grace! We are small but growing, and we want members on our team who are strong, and compassionate as well as ethical, professional, courteous, and trustworthy. You must be committed to excellence, value clients, and have a true desire to help our community. You must be trustworthy and have the capacity to be mentally “present” at work while serving our clients, no matter what is going on in your own life. Our clients depend on us to provide excellence in service!
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YOU ARE SELF DRIVEN AND ENJOY ENGAGING DIRECTLY WITH CLIENTS displaying strong written and verbal skills when communicating with the team, clients, or other attorneys by using the correct industry language. You convey confidence on the phone, with empathy and a smile, and put clients at ease. You don’t like micromanagement and take the initiative on tasks throughout the day while being proactive with schedules and deadlines.
YOU ARE FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTABLE when facing a new challenge or roadblock, proactively developing ideas on how to overcome them. You can adjust and readjust daily priorities to accommodate the sometimes unpredictable nature of ensuring client cases are progressing forward and you display a learning mentality, enjoying the challenge of learning new tasks every day.
YOU HAVE STRONG TIME MANAGEMENT AND PRIORITIZATION SKILLS efficiently and effectively juggling multiple tasks while ensuring that long term projects are completed in a timely manner and all deadlines are being met.
YOU ARE DETAIL-ORIENTED and not satisfied with just doing the job quickly, but want to be accurate as well. You look out for the details, carefully proofreading all your work whether an email or a court document. You double check your output because you take pride in creating quality work product.
YOU ARE MENTALLY TOUGH and able to display empathy and courage while talking to our clients who come to us either during an emotionally difficult period in their life (death of a loved one or a disability) or having finally worked up the courage to plan around their biggest fears to create their Wills and Trusts.
Previous experience as an attorney is required. Our current fast-pace environment does not allow for time to train on the basics of our main practice areas of estate planning, probate, and guardianship law.
Requirements/Qualifications:
- Law degree from an ABA-approved law school.
- Current, active license to practice law in the state of Texas and no history of state bar investigations.
- 5+ years of experience required with at least 3 years of experience in our main practice areas of estate planning and probate and estate administration.
- You must be good with basic technology. Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) is required. Experience with Adobe Acrobat Pro, Zoom, and PracticePanther is preferred but not required. Our technology systems are cloud-based and we prefer someone with experience using cloud-based file systems and software.
- Excellent communication skills, especially in emotional situations.
- Excellent writing skills. Experience writing legal articles is preferred, but not required.
Other Desired Qualities:
- Up-beat, self-starter, who has meticulous attention to detail, common sense, and great interpersonal skills.
- “Solutions-oriented” personality with an optimistic viewpoint even when faced with adversity.
- Passion for helping others and getting to the root of a problem.
- Enjoys the practice of law and desires further skillset development.
Requirements/Qualifications:
Previous experience as a paralegal is required. Unfortunately, our current fast-pace environment does not allow for time to train on the basics of paralegal duties or our main practice areas of estate planning and probate law.
Thus, you must have the following experience:
- ABA-approved paralegal certificate program such as an Associate’s degree or proprietary school program in paralegal studies, or Bachelor’s degree (required).
- 4-6 years of Paralegal experience with at least 3 years experience in estate planning and probate (required).
- Highly proficient in computer skills working with Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, and case management software required.
- Strong organization, critical thinking, problem-solving, and attention to detail skills are required.
- Proven knowledge of the Texas Estate Code, specifically Will formalities, probate process, and Texas intestacy/inheritance laws required.
- Proven legal drafting and writing skills required (4-6 years of experience preparing near-complete drafts of petitions/applications, motions, proposed orders, real estate deeds, and all estate planning documents for the attorney to finalize).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required (4-6 years experience calling on clients and probate court clerks and staff and asking questions to get to the root of the problem as well as drafting detailed written communications with specific instructions to clients concerning their matter).
- 4-6 years of customer service and client care.
- 4-6 years managing multiple calendars, tracking schedules for clients, and docketing court deadlines.
- 4-6 years meeting billable hour requirements required.
- 4-6 years experience of strong organizational and administrative skills; ability to identify and track many tasks from start to completion required.
Other Skills Needed:
- Task management
- Following written instructions and checklists
- Drafting letters, emails, and other formal correspondence to clients and other professionals
- Copying, scanning, and filing (physical and electronic filing) of client documents and documents for court filings
- Data entry using web-based programs
- MS Word (high-level knowledge of formatting), MS Excel, Adobe Acrobat (creating and editing PDF documents)
- Email (using Google Mail)
- Cloud-based file systems
- Basic internet searches for common information (ability to search for public records on people and property, etc. and deed records for real property descriptions and title documents)
- Light legal research
- Using basic office equipment (desktop or laptop computer, scanner, printer, multiline phone, FAX, paper shredder, postage meter)
- Networking and participation in client re-engagement initiatives will also be expected
Our ideal candidate will see this as a career opportunity and not just a “job”. This career opportunity offers mentorship and career progression options within our firm and our ideal candidate can see themselves growing and developing within our firm long-term. As our firm grows in the future, so too will the expectations and duties of this role.
Candidates who meet law firm goals and show initiative will be financially rewarded. Additionally, our firm is growing fast, and our firm’s attorney requires someone who has her back and will support critical client matters in any way necessary to keep the business growing. If the business grows, so do the financial opportunities for every employee of the firm. After succeeding in your first 90 days, you will receive paid holidays as well as additional paid time off, flex-time, work-from-home days, opportunities for bonus, and 401k contributions.
We value face-to-face engagement, but also work-life flexibility. This is a full-time job, 35-40 hours per week, depending on your aptitude for getting the work done. We are tech savvy and offer opportunities to work from home 1-2 days per week, but require an in-office commitment of at least 3 days per week due to the fact that our clients also need face-to-face engagement.Accordion content.
How to Apply
Step 1: Prepare a cover letter telling us (1) how can you deliver value to a client who has just experienced the death of a close family member; and (2) what are you looking for in this position, financially, professionally, and personally. As a closing sentence please write, “I have read the instructions contained in the job posting and have followed the instructions.”
Step 2: Send us your resume and cover letter in PDF format by completing the web form below. The “subject line” of the web form should state the position you are applying for.
Step 3: We will review your application and you will receive a telephone call if you are the right fit for us!
