Legal Assistant​/Calendar Clerk

Puesto: LEGAL ASSISTANT / CALENDAR CLERK
This job is not for everyone.
LawPLA is hiring an experienced Legal Assistant / Calendar Clerk to take full ownership of legal calendaring and deadline management.
This role is NOT for you if you:
Don't have at least two years of legal calendaring experience;
Need someone to double-check your work for you;
Work slowly;
If you are not a team player;
Can't calculate deadlines.
But if you're the kind of person who loves precision, thrives on rules-based deadlines, catches what other people miss, and takes pride in zero-miss calendaring—keep reading.
Company Overview
At the Law Office of Parag L. Amin, P.C. ("LawPLA"), we're building a fast-growing firm with high standards and a culture centered on growth, teamwork, and results. If you're looking for a place where performance matters, details matter, and your work directly impacts outcomes, you may love it here.
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About Us:

The Anti-Sell:
The Real Job
This role exists for one reason: the firm cannot miss deadlines. Ever.
That means:
Accuracy beats speed—but you still need to move fast.
You'll be working with court notices, orders, service dates, discovery triggers, continuances, and moving targets.
You'll sometimes have incomplete info, unclear orders, or conflicting dates—and you must raise issues immediately and push for clarity.
You'll be expected to build redundancy (ticklers/reminders/follow-ups) and operate with a "no surprises" mindset.
This is "quietly high pressure": when calendaring is done right, nobody notices. When it's done wrong, everyone notices.
If reading that makes you tense, overwhelmed, or defensive, you won't enjoy this role.
If reading that makes you think, "Good. That's exactly the kind of responsibility I want," you're probably our person.
How This Actually Works (Day-to-Day):
This job is not "calendar entry." This is deadline ownership.
On a normal day, you will:
Review incoming documents (notices, minute orders, proofs of service, pleadings, discovery, correspondence) and immediately identify what triggers deadlines.
Confirm the trigger date (filing date, service date, order date, hearing date, etc.).
Calculate the correct rules-based deadline(s) (court rules, statutes, service methods, and internal firm deadlines).
Enter deadlines into the firm's calendar and create the matching Click Up task(s) with clean naming, correct due dates, and clear notes.
Build redundancy so nothing slips: multiple reminders/ticklers, follow-ups, and "early warning" checkpoints.
Spot conflicts, missing info, unclear orders, and inconsistent dates and escalate them immediately.
If you need perfect information to do your job, you will struggle here.
If you know how to detect uncertainty early and force clarity before it becomes a crisis, you'll thrive.

Position Overview:

LawPLA is hiring a Calendar Clerk / Calendaring Clerk to take full ownership of the firm's calendaring systems, rules-based deadline calculations, and deadline task creation in Click Up.
If you've worked in a California law firm for 2+ years and your primary responsibility has been managing a legal calendar/docket, we would love to meet you.
This is a full-time, remote position. Candidates outside the U.S. are welcome, but you must have your own reliable computer, dedicated workspace, and high-speed internet.
Our Core Values:
Growth, Integrity, Value, Proactivity, Accountability, Results, Dependability, Service.
What You'll Do (This is the work)
Own and maintain the firm's legal calendar so no deadline slips.
Calendar all critical events and deadlines, including court appearances, hearings, trials, CMCs/status conferences, mediation/MSC dates, filing deadlines, response deadlines, discovery deadlines/cutoffs, deposition deadlines, expert deadlines, and internal reminders/ticklers.
Calculate rules-based deadlines based on triggers (filing/service dates, notices, court orders) and update them when things change.
Review incoming documents (notices, minute orders, pleadings, proofs of service, discovery, correspondence) and identify date triggers/deadlines.
Enter/update deadlines across the firm's systems (calendar, case management, and Click Up) using clean naming conventions and clear details.
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