Attorney - Bankruptcy

Description

Padgett Law Group (PLG) is an elite, full-service creditors' rights law firm with practices in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Alabama, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Illinois. Additionally, PLG offers national bankruptcy, replevin, and loss mitigation services. The firm’s practice provides exclusive representation to institutional clients such as lenders, mortgage servicers, credit unions, banks, hedge funds, investors and other financial services industry stakeholders.  Leveraging technology in our partnerships with forward-thinking clients gives PLG the ability to focus on the aggressive management and processing of delinquent or under performing loans, providing our clients with an edge when curing or resolving these complex legal matters. In 2019, PLG was recognized by The M Report, a leading default services industry publication, as a Top 25 Company to Work For. 

At Padgett Law Group, our mission is simple: to attract and retain the most talented individuals within our industry while delivering high-quality legal services to our clients. We understand our crucial role as our clients strive to provide an ethical and empathetic experience. We contribute to that through our long-standing and recognizable firm culture that is visible during every interaction with PLG—and amongst ourselves. At PLG, we stand on our decades-long tradition of merit, respect, hard work, and excellent results, and we use that foundation for every service we provide. As a firm, we believe that our mission can only be truly realized through investment in our core values of People, Precision, and Performance. 

At Padgett Law Group, we're not just looking for talented employees to join our growing team. We're looking for leaders who cultivate those around them and contribute to our path forward; we're looking for individuals who appreciate our culture and commit to our shared goals; we're looking for people who want to be more than employees, processors, or paper pushers. 

Our vision is to build the most compelling law firm that is home to the industry’s best talent, as we are today and as we grow in the future.

What’s in it for you? Padgett Law Group believes in investing in our employees and ensuring that they have all the resources necessary to succeed - including a competitive, comprehensive, and valuable benefits package. As a full-time PLG employee, you will receive: 

• 4 weeks of PTO from day one (which increases with tenure) 
• Paid Parental and Grandparent Leave
• 7 Paid Company Holidays and your birthday off every year
• Full suite of healthcare insurance options including health, dental, vision, STD, LTD, Accident, Critical Illness, Voluntary Life and AD&D coverage, and more 
• Company-covered Term Life Insurance, AD&D Insurance, and Employee Assistance Program 
• 401k (with company match)
• Extensive Training and Development Opportunities
• Flexible work schedules including in-office, hybrid, and remote working capabilities and more! 

OVERVIEW:

The position of Attorney – Bankruptcy (Attorney) at Padgett Law Group a/k/a Timothy D. Padgett, P.A. provides support to the firm’s bankruptcy staff and clients. The Attorney reports directly and solely to the firm’s designated Supervising Attorney of Bankruptcy Operations. This position will carry a caseload. We are also looking to hire in multiple states including Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Ohio.

The Attorney is responsible for ensuring compliance with all local, state and federal areas of concern relating to default servicing. These duties included attending hearings, management local appearance counsel hearings, reviewing documents, training staff, providing legal advice to clients, as well as conducting research at the local and federal level. 

Employment reviews occur annually in accordance with the firm’s executive teams established performance review and will serve to determine merit-based increases based upon the revenue growth of PLG.

SCOPE OF WORK:     

Hearing Maintenance

• Attending hearings 
• Managing Local Appearance Counsel hearing attendance by ensuring both the Attorney and Local Appearance Counsel are prepared prior to the hearing with clear instructions regarding the desired outcome
• Ensuring coverage for all scheduled hearings 
• Providing immediate/real time hearing results internally and to the client

Portfolio Management

• Ensuring internal and external systems of record are updated timely – i.e. within any established court deadline, client SLA, or internal deadline
• Ensuring staff have updated drafting templates that are in compliance with local and federal rules of procedure, as well as any district or judge specific rules
• Performing Quality Control reviews of documents prior to client and/or court submission to ensure compliance with all internal and external rules
• Monitoring dockets in which an appearance has been filed to timely identify and escalate any actionable docket events
• Ensuring upstream processes as well as any downstream processes are in compliance with are within any established court deadline, client SLA, or internal deadline

Provide Loan Level Support to Firm Staff

• Answering loan level legal questions
• Providing training tools and drafting templates
• Coordinating with leadership to identify areas in which process and staff can be improved
• Acting with integrity, energy, and commitment at all times
• Displaying and embodying firm culture
• Maintaining consistency and stability through work ethic, and personal conduct 
• Timely escalate, manage and mitigate any firm risk related legal matters performed by the firm’s bankruptcy department 

Provide Loan Level Support to Firm Clients

• Answering questions and communicating generally in a timely manner
• Providing training tools
• Escalating process level questions/issues/concerns to internal leadership

Research

• Use vendor and other Firm tools to conduct research 
• Provide results of research and recommendations regarding training, as well as technology or process changes needed

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities) 

• An active bar admission for the state in which you were hired with a member in good standing status 
• Admission or ability to get admitted to all bankruptcy courts within the state in which you have an active bar membership 
• Experience representing creditors in bankruptcy proceedings in the jurisdiction in which you were hired or the willingness to obtain bankruptcy knowledge. 
• Ability to work with others in a congenial and team-oriented manner. 
• Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to multi-task and be adaptable to continual change. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.