Immigration Clerk

Position Summary:

The Immigration Clerk role is an exciting opportunity to grow your career with one of the largest law firms in the United States. This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career with one of the largest law firms in the United States. Ogletree Deakins is an international law firm with 55 offices throughout North America and Europe. We have one of the largest business immigration practices in the United States; our immigration practice group consists of experienced and dedicated immigration lawyers and paralegals who work with domestic and international corporations and businesses in developing appropriate strategies to facilitate the international transfer of skilled employees.

Our Raleigh, NC office has an opportunity for a Data Clerk to join their fast-paced business immigration practice! Duties may include, but not be limited to performing a variety of data entry, scanning, copy, and filing duties to track and document receipt/approval notices from USCIS in the Firm's centralized document management systems and business records; ensuring that immigration documents are easily accessible to clients, legal, and non-legal staff members; and opening cases within our system to allow paralegals and other immigration staff to begin work on petitions.

We offer a collegial, collaborative, challenging, and growth-focused work environment with innovative technology, customized resources and processes, and continuous skill-based training and professional development.

Essential Functions:

• Open, scan, and save up to 100 pieces of mail and FedEx received each day in the office.
• Save, file, and perform data entry for a variety of incoming immigration document types including receipt and approval notices from USCIS.
• Respond to and complete day-to-day clerical requests to open cases or make changes to cases in our system.
• Provide additional support for on-site file organization projects.
• Prepare and customize basic reports within Microsoft Excel.
• Lift and carry objects such as large batches of mail and files weighing up to 20 pounds.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of data entry experience required.
• High school diploma; some college preferred.
• Good keyboarding skills; ability to type 45 wpm.
• Proficient in Excel.
• Excellent organizational skills; ability to organize, manage, prioritize, and handle numerous projects/tasks.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal; ability to keep the work area neat and clear of safety hazards so that files are maintained neatly and are easily retrieved.
• Superior understanding of correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong time management skills; ability to work independently as well as with a team.

Please note, we are not working with outside recruiters for this position.

Benefits:

Ogletree Deakins offers a robust suite of benefits for our Staff including Paid Time Off, Sick Time, a 401(k) matching program, Profit Sharing, Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, affordable Health and Life Insurance including Dental & Vision coverage, Health Savings Account /Flexible Spending Accounts to help offset the cost of dependent care and/or health care expenses, Teladoc (24/7 access to a doctor by phone or online video), Tuition Reimbursement and an Employee Assistance Program.

Firm Overview:

Ogletree Deakins has one of the largest Business Immigration practices in the United States and provides a wide range of legal services for employers seeking temporary business visas and permanent residence on behalf of foreign national employees. We provide comprehensive immigration services to clients of all sizes, including numerous Fortune 500 companies. Our practice is designed to provide superior client service at competitive fixed fee rates. Our attorneys are proactive in handling client matters, from case initiation to case strategy/planning to the successful completion of the case, always remaining accessible to all of our clients.

We are fully committed to the importance of diversity within the legal profession, as well as all workplace environments and strongly encourage the interest of diverse candidates in the firm.

Equal Opportunity Employer.