Job Title: Remote Paralegal I/II
Location/Travel: Works Remotely From Home But Local Travel Within City of Fresno Regularly Required; Must Reside in or near Fresno County, CA
Languages: Bilingual – English & Spanish strongly preferred.
Primary Areas of Practice: Housing/Landlord-Tenant Law; Employment Law & Workplace/Title IX Investigations
Salary Range: $22-$36/hour ($45,760-$75,000 annually)
To apply, email your resume to Ashley at aemerzian@eslegalinc.com

Job Overview

The paralegal will assist attorney(s) by providing support services including document preparation and review; file management; correspondence with clients; scheduling meetings and other clerical tasks; tracking client deadlines; and legal research and brief writing. Firm’s areas of practice include employment law and human resources matters, corporate law, business law, education law, and housing and landlord-tenant law.

Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions (i.e., fundamental job duties of the position), subject to attorney supervision, are as follows:

• Assists attorneys in representing tenant’s facing eviction within the City of Fresno, including communication with tenant clients, correspondence with the City of Fresno, court filings and in-person pick-ups in Fresno County, collecting documents and information from tenants in-person within the City of Fresno.
• Conducts legal research, prepares legal memoranda and case briefs.
• Prepares employee handbooks and other human resources documents.
• Prepares corporate formation documents and related filings and minutes.
• Proofreads and formats a wide variety of documents.
• Prepares exhibits and assists with report writing.
• Performs other general clerical and administrative duties as requested, which may include scheduling meetings, answering the firm’s phone line, recordkeeping, event set-up, depositing checks, mailing items and checking the firm’s mail, maintaining office supplies and coordinating equipment maintenance, and handling packages and correspondence.
• Responding professionally to client emails and phone calls.
• Assist with document management within the firm’s cloud-based storage systems.
• Assisting with calendaring of events (non-litigation and litigation).
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

 
Education & Experience

or equivalent work experience).

Required Skills & Abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English required. Spanish language skills (written and verbal) are strongly preferred.
• Understanding of legal language, principles, and research methods (including experience using online research platforms).
• Must have excellent customer service skills, and courteous and professional demeanor.
• Must have excellent organizational skills and ability to effectively prioritize to meet deadlines.
• Must be experienced with Adobe Acrobat Pro, Zoom, and Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook and Power Point (firm uses cloud-based platforms such as Office 365).
• Must have California drivers’ license.
• Must be emotionally mature and able to take personal responsibility for projects with minimal supervision.
• Must have a can-do attitude, be flexible and be comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative, and entrepreneurial business culture.

 
Physical & Work Environment Requirements

• Work environment is remote, home-based location. Some travel within Fresno, CA required.
• Must have appropriate workspace in home from which to work. Tools (e.g., laptop and other technology) provided by ES Legal as needed, including internet reimbursement.
• Must be able to communicate with clients and team members via telephone, text message, video conferencing and email.
• Must be able to drive or otherwise travel within Fresno County, California.
• Occasionally required to position self to operate normal office machinery including computers and printers, and to lift-up to approximately 25 lbs.
 

 
Emerzian Shankar Legal Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on any protected class under California state or federal law. Applicants from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to those with disabilities in performing the essential functions of the position.

Job Title: Law Clerk – Remote – Work from Home
Primary Areas of Practice: Landlord-Tenant; Public Agency Law – Under direct supervision of licensed attorneys, representation of tenants facing unlawful eviction through the firm’s contract for services for City of Fresno’s Eviction Protection Program; Employment Law; Education Law & Title IX
Classification: Full-Time Exempt or Part-Time Hourly
Salary Range: $25.00 – $38.00/hour DOE.
To apply, email your resume to Ashley at aemerzian@eslegalinc.com

Job Overview
Essential Functions: Support attorneys and paralegals with:

• Representation of tenants with housing and landlord-tenant law through the City of Fresno’s Eviction Protection Program through the firm’s contract with the City.
• Providing legal advice to tenants in unlawful detainer cases (i.e., eviction), including in court, mediation, and settlement negotiations.
• Providing legal representation in transactional and advisory legal advice and representation to private sector business, non-profit corporations, and education institutions (K-12 through higher education both public and private).
• Conducts legal research, analysis on a wide variety of business, landlord-tenant, labor/employment, and education law compliance matters.
• Maintains positive, collaborative, and professional relationships with other attorneys and support staff, as well as the firm’s clients.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Nothing in this job description/posting restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.  

 
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must have excellent customer service skills.
• Must have excellent organizational skills and ability to effectively prioritize to meet deadlines.
• Must have courteous and professional demeanor.
• Must be experienced with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook and Power Point and comfortable working with cloud-based platforms.
• Must be emotionally mature and able to take personal responsibility for projects with minimal supervision.
• Must be comfortable working remotely from home.
• Must have a can-do attitude and be comfortable working in an entrepreneurial business culture.

 
Physical & Work Environment Requirements

• Work environment is remote, home-based location. Some travel within Fresno, CA required.
• Must have appropriate workspace in home from which to work. Tools (e.g., laptop and other technology) provided by ES Legal as needed, including internet reimbursement.
• Must be able to communicate with clients and team members via telephone, text message, video conferencing and email.
• Must be able to drive or otherwise travel within Fresno County, California.
• Occasionally required to position self to operate normal office machinery including computers and printers, and to lift-up to approximately 25 lbs.
 

 
Emerzian Shankar Legal Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on any protected class under California state or federal law. Applicants from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Job Title: Legal Assistant – Remote Work From Home
Practice Areas: Workplace & School Investigations; Title IX; Labor & Employment Law
Reports To: Shareholders
Classification: Full-Time Hourly
Salary Range: $25.00 to $35.00 per hour
To apply, email your resume to Ashley at aemerzian@eslegalinc.com

Job Overview

The legal assistant performs confidential administrative duties in support of the
firm’s legal staff and is responsible for facilitating the efficient operation of the law firm by
performing a variety of clerical, administrative, and personal assistant tasks, as described further
below.

Duties and Responsibilities
The essential functions (i.e., fundamental job duties of the position) are as follows:

• Conducts research and prepares documents.
• Operational, fiscal, and business analysis techniques.
• Demonstrate competence in independently applying judgment and nonstandard
  applications and systems, solving a wide range of problems, and developing practicable
  and thorough solutions.
• Communicating with the firm’s staff and clients by phone, email, text, and in-person.
• Proofreads, formats, and audits a wide variety of documents using various software
  platforms.
• Investigative thinker with strong research and analytical skills.
• Prepares exhibits and assists with report writing.
• Must have excellent general clerical and administrative duties as requested, which may include scheduling meetings, answering the firm’s phone line, recordkeeping, event set-up, depositing checks, mailing items, checking the firm’s mail, maintaining office supplies, and coordinating equipment maintenance, handling packages and correspondence, and assigned running errands.
• Responding professionally to client emails and phone calls.
• Assist with document management within the firm’s cloud-based storage systems.
• Assisting with calendaring of events and scheduling (non-litigation).
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the
essential functions.

Education & Experience

• Associates degree or higher preferred.
• At least 3 years of work experience in a professional setting, such as a law office or
  management-level in another field preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience as an administrative assistant; supporting high level
  executives and/or management.
• Must have ample experience in Microsoft Outlook, scheduling, and calendaring for both
  internal and external meetings.
• Proficiency in creating and formatting grammatically correct professional letters and
  emails.

Education & Experience

• Must have excellent written and verbal English language communication skills.
  Excellent written and verbal communication skills in languages other than English are
  strongly preferred.
• Must have a can-do attitude, be flexible and be comfortable working in a fast-paced,
  start-up business culture.
• Must have excellent customer service skills.
• Must have excellent organizational skills and ability to effectively prioritize to meet
  deadlines.
• Must have courteous and professional demeanor.
• Must be experienced with remote video conferencing applications such as Zoom.
• Bilingual preferred, but not required.
• Must be experienced with Adobe Acrobat Pro and Microsoft Office applications,
  including Word, Excel, Outlook, and Power Point (cloud-based platforms such as Office
  365 strongly preferred).
• Must be skilled at typing (at least 50 wpm with high rate of accuracy).
• Must be comfortable using text communication and social media (including Facebook
  and LinkedIn).
• Must have a California drivers’ license.
• Must be emotionally mature and able to take personal responsibility for projects with
  minimal supervision.

Physical & Work Environment Requirements

• Work environment is remote, home-based location. Must have quiet workspace in home
  from which to work from cell phone and laptop computer. Tools will be provided by the
  Company.
• Prolonged periods of working on a computer.
• Must be able to communicate with attorneys and clients via telephone, text message, video conferencing and email.
• Occasionally required to position self to operate normal office machinery including
  computers and printers, and to lift up to approximately 25 lbs.
• Must be able to drive to or otherwise travel in the Fresno area and throughout the Central
  Valley region of California area to various meeting sites. Occasional travel outside the
  Central Valley area required.

Note: Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties
and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Emerzian Shankar Legal Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based
on any protected class under California state or federal law. Applicants from diverse
backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Job Title: Attorney – Remote Work From Home
Practice Areas: Workplace & School Investigations; Title IX; Labor & Employment Law
Licensure & Location: California state bar licensure required. Remote work from home within
California. Some travel to Fresno, CA may be required.
Reports To: Shareholders
Classification: Full-Time Exempt or Part-Time Hourly
Salary Range: $100,000 to $175,000+ annually (or hourly equivalent)
To apply, email your resume to Ashley at aemerzian@eslegalinc.com

Essential Functions

• Conducts workplace, school, and Title IX investigations, including interviewing parties
  and witnesses (remotely via Zoom), review of other evidence and information, and report
  writing.
• Provides legal advice to school, non-profit, and private sector business clients on labor
  and employment law.
• Conducts legal research and analysis on related matters as needed, including preparing
  client memoranda and emails.

Performs other related duties as assigned. Nothing in this job description/posting restricts
management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must have excellent customer service skills.
• Must have excellent organizational skills and ability to effectively prioritize to meet
  deadlines.
• Must have courteous and professional demeanor.
• Must be experienced with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook
  and Power Point and comfortable working with cloud-based platforms.
• Must be emotionally mature and able to take personal responsibility for projects with
  minimal supervision
• Must be comfortable working remotely from home.
• Must have a can-do attitude and be comfortable working in an entrepreneurial business
  culture.

Physical & Work Environment Requirements

• Work environment is remote, home-based location. Some travel required.
• Must have appropriate workspace in home from which to work. Tools (e.g., laptop and
  other technology) provided by ES Legal as needed, including internet reimbursement.
• Must be able to communicate with clients and team members via telephone, text
  message, video conferencing and email.
• Occasionally required to position self to operate normal office machinery including
  computers and printers, and to lift up to approximately 25 lbs.

Required Education and Work Experience

• California state bar licensure required.
• Juris Doctorate required.
• 1+ year of professional work experience required; 3+ years of professional work
  experience in a law firm setting preferred.

Note: Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties
and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Emerzian Shankar Legal Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based
on any protected class under California state or federal law. Applicants from diverse
backgrounds are encouraged to apply.