About the job Paralegal - Family Law
FAMILY LAW PARALEGAL
Onsite | Fort Lauderdale, FL | Full-Time | $65,000–$90,000 annual base pay | Plus incentives tied to billable hours & KPI achievement
Summary
Mayersohn Law Group, P.A. is hiring an experienced Family Law Paralegal to support our growing Family Law practice in Fort Lauderdale.
This is an onsite role for a highly organized, client-centered paralegal with hands-on Florida family law experience. You will work closely with attorneys and clients on divorce, paternity, timesharing/custody, child support, alimony, financial-disclosure, and related family-law matters.
The right candidate is proactive, dependable, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing a busy caseload with minimal supervision. You must be able to communicate with empathy while maintaining firm deadlines, accurate documentation, confidentiality, and a high standard of client service.
What You'll Do
Family Law Case Support
- Draft, prepare, revise, and organize family law pleadings, motions, notices, discovery, subpoenas, correspondence, and related legal documents.
- Assist with matters involving dissolution of marriage, paternity, parenting plans, timesharing, child support, alimony, modifications, enforcement, and other Florida family-law issues.
- Prepare and organize financial affidavits, mandatory disclosures, financial records, and supporting documentation.
- Assist with written discovery, including interrogatories, requests for production, subpoenas, discovery responses, and document collection.
- Maintain accurate case files, deadlines, task lists, hearing dates, and court-calendar information.
Filing, Deadlines & Organization
- Prepare documents for Florida e-filing and ensure filings, service, and supporting materials are complete, accurate, and timely.
- Coordinate service of process, subpoenas, document delivery, and follow-up with process servers, clients, opposing counsel, and court personnel as appropriate.
- Organize digital and physical files, discovery productions, exhibits, communications, and client records.
- Monitor deadlines and proactively identify outstanding documents, follow-up needs, and case-preparation requirements.
Client Communication
- Communicate with clients to collect documents, obtain case information, schedule appointments, and provide procedural updates.
- Help clients understand next steps, document requests, deadlines, and attorney instructions while maintaining appropriate paralegal boundaries.
- Provide responsive, professional, and compassionate service to clients navigating sensitive family-law matters.
- Maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment with sensitive financial, personal, and case-related information.
Attorney & Hearing Support
- Assist attorneys with preparation for hearings, mediations, depositions, and trial.
- Prepare hearing notebooks, exhibit lists, witness materials, timelines, document summaries, and other case-support materials.
- Coordinate with clients, witnesses, experts, and third parties as directed by the attorney.
- Use Clio, Family Law Software, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, and legal-research or document-management tools to support case progress.
- Meet established monthly billable-hour and performance expectations.
Qualifications
- At least 2 years of hands-on Florida family law paralegal experience.
- Experience supporting divorce/dissolution, custody or timesharing, paternity, child support, alimony, and/or related family-law matters.
- Experience drafting family law documents and assisting with discovery, financial disclosures, case management, and hearing preparation.
- Strong working knowledge of Florida court filing procedures and family-law deadlines.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, legal case-management software, and document organization.
- Strong attention to detail, organization, time management, and follow-through.
- Ability to manage multiple active matters, shifting deadlines, and client needs in a fast-paced environment.
- Professionalism, reliability, discretion, and a strong client-service mindset.
- Ability to consistently meet billable-hour and productivity expectations.
Preferred
- Certificate or degree from an ABA-approved paralegal program.
- Experience using Clio, Family Law Software, e-filing platforms, and legal-research tools.
- Experience preparing Florida financial affidavits, mandatory disclosures, child-support-related documents, or parenting-plan materials.
- Experience supporting attorneys during hearings, mediations, depositions, and trial.
- Bachelor's degree or paralegal certification.
Compensation & Benefits
- $65,000–$90,000 annual base pay
- Up to $119,00 with additional incentives tied to billable hours & KPI acheivement
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) participation
- 10 days of PTO, plus paid holidays
- Ongoing training and professional development
- Opportunity to work directly with experienced litigators on meaningful family-law matters
About Mayersohn Law Group
Mayersohn Law Group, P.A. is an AV‑rated, NAMWOLF‑certified South Florida law firm known for excellence in litigation. Founded by Leah Mayersohn, a former prosecutor with decades of high‑stakes trial experience, the firm represents clients in Criminal Law, Family Law, Real Estate, and Commercial Litigation.
Our mission: Relentless where it matters. Deliberate at every turn.
We pursue outcomes with tenacity while applying thoughtful, strategic judgment at each step.
We are guided by our PATHS values:
- Purposeful: Every action is intentional and moves the case forward
- Accountable: We take ownership from intake through resolution
- Trustworthy: We handle every matter with discretion and care
- Honest: We communicate clearly, directly, and truthfully
- Strategic: We apply sound judgment and real‑world thinking to every case
Our team works in a direct, fast‑paced, solutions‑focused environment. We value professionals who communicate clearly, accept candid feedback, and stay focused on achieving results while supporting our systems and operations.