Personal Injury Paralegal

About Us:

At the Husband & Wife Law Team, we provide a unique combination of awesome legal results and amazing client service. We thoughtfully guide people through adversity to their best possible outcome working with thousands of clients over the past 28 years. We are growing fast and are looking for passionate people to help us serve our community!

 Role Summary:

We are seeking a tenacious, highly creative, and experienced personal injury paralegal to join our specialized litigation team as a 90-Day Case Paralegal. This unique role focuses exclusively on serious and catastrophic injury cases that present potentially high-value outcomes but also involve uncertain legal or factual elements. Cases require a deep, strategic evaluation within a 90-day investigative window to determine viability and path to victory.

 This is a role for someone who thrives under pressure, embraces complex challenges, and views legal obstacles as opportunities for innovation and problem-solving.

 Key Responsibilities:

• Support strategic evaluations of serious/catastrophic injury cases flagged for 90-day review due to liability, factual, or payment challenges by gathering and organizing relevant case materials.
• Assist in conducting focused investigations to help determine the legal merit, evidentiary support, and recovery potential of each case.
• Identify and document potential weaknesses in a case and contribute to the development of creative legal and factual strategies to address or overcome them.
• Coordinate with investigators, experts, and internal teams to compile case theory, evidence, and supporting documentation under the guidance of supervising attorneys.
• Prepare written case summaries and contribute to strategic memos for review by firm decision-makers at the conclusion of the 90-day period.
• Communicate with clients to gather facts, clarify events, build rapport, and assess their reliability and value as witnesses.
• Maintain and organize a high-volume docket of open investigative matters, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail in all documentation.
• Collaborate closely with the litigation team to ensure a smooth transition of viable cases into full litigation.
• Demonstrate a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset, showing emotional resilience and adaptability in the face of legal challenges or uncertainties.

 Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a paralegal or legal assistant in personal injury litigation, including serious/catastrophic injury cases. 
• Demonstrated success managing complex cases with liability or factual issues.
• Exceptional investigative and legal research skills.
• Strong analytical thinking and creative legal strategy development.
• Proven ability to identify key issues quickly and create actionable game plans.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple investigations under time-sensitive deadlines.
• Strong communication and writing skills for both legal and non-legal audiences.
• Emotional resilience — thrives in high-pressure, high-stakes, and sometimes unfavorable legal scenarios.

Preferred Skills

• J.D. from an accredited law school and licensed to practice law in Arizona.
• Prior legal software experience (FileVine, Clio, etc)

Preferred Traits: 

• Entrepreneurial mindset — thrives on finding a way where others see no path.
• Natural problem-solver who is intellectually curious and highly resourceful.
• Positive, team-oriented attitude and not deterred by loss or uncertainty.
• Comfortable navigating cases with limited or conflicting evidence.