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Seeking a bankruptcy attorney with 2+ years of experience to join our Delaware, New
Jersey or New York offices and be part of a team working on matters in New Jersey, New
York, Delaware, Maryland, Texas, and Florida. We seek a motivated individual devoted
to meeting the highest standards of excellence and serving clients, and who wants to be
part of an established and dynamic office and firm. Bar admission in one or more states
in which the Firm has an office and where the candidate desires to be a resident is required.
Strong academic credentials and excellent oral and written communication skills are
required. Litigation experience is a plus. We offer a competitive starting salary plus a
comprehensive benefits program. Salary is commensurate with experience. The salary
range for this position is $200,000 to $315,000.
Seeking an attorney with 5-7+ years’ experience in estate litigation for our New York office. NY bar is required. We have a sophisticated practice and offer an extraordinary opportunity for challenging, interesting, and rewarding work. We seek an individual devoted to meeting the highest standards of excellence and serving clients, and who wants to be part of an established and dynamic firm. Strong academic credentials and excellent oral and written communication skills are required. Salary is commensurate with experience. The salary range for this position is $260,000 to $315,000.
Seeking corporate attorneys for Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, or Texas offices.
Candidates should have 4 + years of experience with fund formation, governance and
transactions and/or securities matters. Applicable bar admission is required. Strong academic
credentials, excellent oral and written communication skills are required. We offer a competitive
starting salary plus a comprehensive benefits program. Salary is commensurate with experience.
The salary range for this position is $225,000 to $315,000.
Seeking an associate with 2+ years general experience in sophisticated commercial litigation (including chancery litigation) for our Delaware office. We have a sophisticated practice and offer an extraordinary opportunity for challenging, interesting, and rewarding work. We seek an individual devoted to meeting the highest standards of excellence and serving clients, and who wants to be part of an established and dynamic firm. Strong academic credentials and excellent oral and written communication skills are required.
Seeking an associate with 3+ years general experience in sophisticated commercial litigation for our New York office. NY bar is required. We have a sophisticated practice and offer an extraordinary opportunity for challenging, interesting, and rewarding work. We seek an individual devoted to meeting the highest standards of excellence and serving clients, and who wants to be part of an established and dynamic firm. Strong academic credentials and excellent oral and written communication skills are required. Salary is commensurate with experience. The salary range for this position is $200,000 to 315,000.
Seeking an attorney with 3+ years’ experience in all aspects of construction litigation (other than personal injury matters). Commercial litigation experience is also a plus. New York bar required. We have a sophisticated practice and offer an extraordinary opportunity for challenging, interesting, and rewarding work. We seek an individual devoted to meeting the highest standards of excellence and serving clients, and who wants to be part of an established and dynamic firm. Strong academic credentials and excellent oral and written communication skills are required. Salary is commensurate with experience. The salary range for this position is $200,000 to 315,000. We offer a competitive starting salary and a comprehensive benefits program.
Seeking a Tax, Trusts & Estates Associate with 4+ years’ experience to join our Florida office. LL.M. in Taxation or Estate Planning and Florida bar required. Strong academic credentials, excellent oral and written communication skills required. We offer an excellent compensation package and comprehensive benefits program.
Staff Positions
Seeking an Application Engineer whose primary focus will be ensuring the stability, availability, and supportability of the Firm’s Enterprise application stack. This person will work closely with the Enterprise Applications Manager, Accounting, Marketing, Records, and other firm personnel to ensure all applications run optimally and without interruption. Good communication, technical and analytical skills are required, with a heavy focus on Windows Server and SQL (querying, reporting in SSIS and other tools, maintenance, documentation, and upgrades). Some programming knowledge would be a ‘nice to have,’ but expert knowledge is not required.
Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:
- Administer, develop, and support the Firm’s Elite 3E platform. Including, but not limited to Thompson Reuters Elite 3E, Paperless Performa, Design Gallery (“DG”), Workspace, and Iridium.
- Responsibilities within the firm’s financial/marketing application stack include:
- Scheduling month-end maintenance such as: Windows updates, SQL maintenance, query optimization, and security patching
- Inter-department coordination during system upgrades; assessing and communicating risk factors of upcoming upgrades, primarily when integrated systems cause a “trickle-down” effect
- Coordinate with application stakeholders and IT team to prioritize and address issues and future objectives for financial systems
- Responsible for testing financial system applications during system changes, enhancements, upgrades, and monthly system maintenance,
- Documentation of system setup, integrations, backup, and disaster recovery processes
- Communicates and informs the department and management of project statuses, issues, and proposed resolutions
- Manage vendor support tickets
- Track and optimize system performance and storage utilization, plan for necessary hardware or software upgrades to support system growth
- Research and evaluate new tools/technologies to improve the current application stack
- Utilize tools to protect application source code and maintain versioning.
- Any additional responsibilities as required by management
- Other responsibilities include:
- Compulaw administration, maintenance and integrations
- Support requests/tickets escalated from the helpdesk team
- Documentation of processes/procedures, ‘how-to’ guides, and frequently asked question resolution
- Basic ‘end user’ application troubleshooting and maintenance such as: FasTax, B&A Forms, Allstate legal forms, LexisNexis etc.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- 3+ years’ experience operating with legal accounting and time management software required, experience with Elite 3E preferred
- Fluency in the Elite 3E SQL database schema preferred or demonstrated ability to develop such fluency
- Experience with maintaining 3E Templates (“Design Gallery”), Workspace and BizTalk
- Proficiency in Elite Application Framework and Tools; Example: IDE
- Knowledge of 3E Solutions Manager a plus
- Proficiency in SQL reporting (“SSRS”)
- Ability to learn functional and technical integration aspects of the firm’s applications such as Iridium, Foundations, Concur
- Experience administering Windows Server
- Solid technical foundation with the ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve complex problems and implement solutions with minimal guidance
- Self-motivated person with excellent time management skills
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to communicate results
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to communicate with staff of varying technical expertise
- Proficiency in XML/XSLT transformation
- Knowledge of C# and Visual Basic .Net, HTML5 programming
Non-essential Functions:
- Responsible for communication, coordination and back up of other members of the Information Technology Department as required to service the firm and its clients.
- Exempt position, expected to work additional hours, weekends and holidays, as required in performance of duties.
- This position is considered essential to the function of the firm. Therefore, attendance during firm administrative leave and closings may be required.
- Perform such other and/or additional duties as may be assigned from time to time.
- Support and monitor firm policies and procedures as pertains to the Information Technology Department
Qualifications:
To succeed in this position, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in management, design, and implementation of large enterprise applications in a heterogeneous operating system environment with hands-on experience in maintaining mission critical enterprise applications at a high level of availability.
- Requires broad knowledge of the specialized and technical field of computer science, and business/management acumen equivalent to a complete college or university education; includes thorough skills knowledge.
- 4-year college degree preferred, equivalent experience considered.
Technical Skills & Requirements:
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the design, implementation and maintenance of Windows computer systems. Experience with Microsoft SQL required, working knowledge of Active Directory administration and maintenance a plus. Experience with Thomson Reuters 3E and Foundations Experience management system administration required. iManage document management system administration is a plus. Proven experience supporting a large number of end users, 300+.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) preferred, but not required.
Seeking a Litigation Paralegal for our New Jersey Office with 3+ years of law firm litigation paralegal experience. Responsibility for assisting lawyers in all aspects of the Litigation Department’s caseloads, including: the organization and maintenance of court materials; drafting and filing pleadings, motions, and other court documents; preparation of correspondence, memoranda, discovery, and other communications with minimal supervision; management of docket, matter dates, and deadlines; deposition digesting and preparation; and coordination of deposition, hearing, motion and trial preparation. Assist with and coordinate paper and electronic discovery process, including: identifying potentially relevant electronically stored information (“ESI”); draft and issue legal hold notices; coordinate with clients to identify, preserve, and collect relevant sources of ESI and paper discovery; and assist with processing, reviewing, and coding ESI.
Knowledge of and ability to electronically file (CM/ECF) pleadings required. Candidates must be highly organized and possess the ability to prioritize, be a team player, and have excellent written and verbal skills. College degree and/or paralegal certificate required. Strong working knowledge of MSOffice (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Relativity, and Concordance required. Knowledge of IManage a plus.
Seeking a Trust & Estate Administrative Assistant to join our T&E Department in our New Jersey or New York offices. Experience with general probate procedures (including, but not limited to, document drafting and filing, etc.), communication with clients, probate clerks and other professionals, drafting of initial estate administration documents, assist with asset valuations, transfers and redemption’s, collection of cash accounts, marshalling of assets, assistance with preparation of estate tax returns, drafting of distribution documents, and overall general assistance to trust and estate attorneys and paralegals in all other basis aspects of estate and trust administration. Candidates should possess excellent communication skills, be highly organized and be a team player. We offer a competitive starting salary and benefits program. Salary is commensurate with experience. The salary for this position is $65,000 to $75,000.
Seeking a full-time Client Services/Hospitality Representative (Monday through Friday from 10:00 am – 7:00 pm) for our New York Office located in Midtown at 1325 Avenue of Americas between (53rd & 54th Street). Job responsibilities include high volume phone contact, greeting clients and reserving conference rooms, conference room set ups and maintenance of kitchen pantries. Candidate must possess strong computer skills. Other duties include light typing, photo copying, filing and special projects on an as needed basis. We offer a competitive starting salary plus a comprehensive benefits package. Salary is commensurate with experience. The salary range for this position is $50,000 to $55,000.
Seeking a legal practice assistant (LPA) for our Boca Raton, FL. Office. 3+ years legal experience to support members of the Firm, associates and paralegals in the areas of Litigation, Corporate and Tax, Trusts & Estates . Candidates should possess excellent communication and organizational skills. Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and 3E required; knowledge of IManage and PowerPoint a plus. We offer a competitive starting salary and a comprehensive benefits program.
We offer an excellent compensation package and comprehensive benefits program.
Cole Schotz is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Please e-mail resume for consideration to:
Gayle P. Englert, Chief Human Resources Officer
Email: genglert@coleschotz.com
Office: 201.525.6307
Fax: 201.678.6307
Cole Schotz P.C.
Court Plaza North
25 Main Street, P.O. Box 800
Hackensack, NJ 07602-0800
