Junior Paralegal - Medical and Life Sciences
Harris Beach MurthaLocation: Uniondale, NY (Long Island)
Do you thrive in a fast-paced legal environment and enjoy supporting attorneys with both administrative and paralegal responsibilities? Are you excited about the opportunity to join an innovative, growing law firm that has been successful for more than 165 years?
Harris Beach Murtha is in search of a Junior Paralegal to join our Medical and Life Sciences Industry Team in the Uniondale, NY office. You will thrive in this role if you have:
- 3+ years of experience as a legal administrative assistant or transferable paralegal experience (required)
- Defense litigation and mass torts experience (required)
- Knowledge of e-discovery (required)
- A bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience (preferred)
- Strong communication and client service skills
- Excellent time management, multitasking, and organizational abilities
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint) including expertise with TOCs, TOAs, and Styles
The Medical and Life Sciences team is looking for a Junior Paralegal to provide high-level administrative and litigation support to multiple attorneys, including the Industry Team Leader. Do you have the drive and desire to:
- Maintain medical record charts, including requesting, processing, organizing, and tracking medical records for clients within the Industry Team
- Assist attorneys with litigation deadlines, court filings, and case‑related administrative procedures
- Transcribe and type correspondence, memoranda and legal forms
- Review, evaluate and analyze document content and provide executive level summaries
- Proofread and ensure quality of legal documents
- Maintain organized and updated litigation files
- Update matters and client lists
- Maintain calendars and schedule appointments, meetings and conference calls
- Communicate with clients, courts, experts, vendors, and opposing counsel in a professional and timely manner
- Review and prepare new client matter forms
- Process check requests and expense reimbursements
- Handle incoming and outgoing mail
- Perform document scanning, profiling and retrieval
- Assist with other duties as needed
Harris Beach Murtha recognizes everyone has a right to be included. You will be successful in your career at the firm if you:
- Exhibit the ability to effectively multitask, meet deadlines, and provide solutions in a fast-paced office setting
- Believe in the firm’s core values: collaboration, inclusion, ingenuity, respect, integrity, and commitment
- Enjoy working with diverse personalities within various levels of the firm
- Complete a minimum of 500 billable hours annually
- Are comfortable working in the office every day
Harris Beach Murtha is not accepting candidate submissions from recruiting agencies for this position during the first two weeks after posting. Following this period, agencies with an active fee agreement with the firm may reach out to our internal recruitment team at resumes@harrisbeachmurtha.comto inquire about potential collaboration for this position.
Salary information below will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position, geographic locations and weekly hours schedule. The anticipated weekly schedule for the Junior Paralegal is 35 hours per week.
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Harris Beach Murtha is committed to an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from diverse candidates with varied background and skills, including military experience. Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
About Harris Beach Murtha:
Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP. A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha’s New York roots reach back to 1856 and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936. Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal.
Harris Beach Murtha and its subsidiaries have a strong Northeast presence, but a global reach. Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations and individuals. The firm’s practice areas and industries served span appellate law, business litigation, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax, and trusts and estates.
The firm’s lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and Newark, New Jersey.
The firm’s policy prohibiting unlawful discrimination applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, placement, assignment of duties, training, promotion, compensation & benefits and termination. It is the policy of Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC that all applicants and employees enjoy a positive, respectful and productive work environment, free from behavior, actions or language constituting unlawful harassment. Accordingly, harassment or discrimination of any kind based on an individual’s race or color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, carrier status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, creed, domestic violence victim status or any other legally protected status is strictly prohibited. Harris Beach Murtha complies with the provisions of the Human Rights Law, all other State and Federal statutory and constitutional non-discrimination provisions including non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.