Stark & Stark offers excellent opportunities for attorneys and professionals who want to meet the challenges facing the legal profession in this century. Bring in clients, handle your own cases, develop community relationships and build a practice.
You deserve to work with a law firm built on integrity, reliability, and a personal commitment to the challenges and opportunities you face every day. Since 1933, Stark & Stark has developed innovative legal solutions to meet the needs of our clients. With experienced attorneys in more than 30 practice areas, our philosophy of putting the law to work for our clients is the basis from which we build and maintain our practice. At Stark & Stark we believe the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Open Attorney Positions
Commercial Real Estate, Land Use, and Banking Associate - Hamilton, NJ
Stark & Stark has an opening in our Hamilton office for an experienced Commercial Real Estate Associate to join our team. The ideal candidate will be self-directed and detailed-oriented with the ability to organize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. The right candidate will have the extraordinary opportunity to continue their professional development in a challenging, but collegial, environment.
Responsibilities
- The Associate will work with project teams on purchase and sale transactions, leases, and commercial financing transactions.
- Assist with assigned matters from inception through closing, including drafting and negotiating primary and ancillary documents for real estate acquisitions, dispositions, financing, development, leasing, joint ventures and similar transactions.
- Review and analyze due diligence and conduct legal research.
- Correspond and communicate with clients’ business and legal personnel, and coordinate with attorneys across other practice disciplines.
Qualifications and Skills
- At least five (5) years of commercial real estate experience.
- Strong interpersonal, negotiation, written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills with high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
- Superior drafting skills.
- Strong analytical thinker, with a business mind.
- Excellent academic record.
- Ability to independently manage and supervise paralegals and due diligence processes.
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and to interact directly with clients.
- Licensed to practice in the State of New Jersey.
Benefits We Offer
Stark & Stark is committed to the health and well-being of its staff members. The firm offers a full range of benefits, including traditional major medical and hospitalization coverage, a prescription plan, a dental plan, a vision plan, life insurance, accidental death, and dismemberment coverage, a profit sharing, and a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, and paid holidays.
Stark & Stark is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Transactional Associate - Hamilton, NJ
Responsibilities and Duties:
The candidate will work on purchase and sale transactions from inception through closing, including drafting and negotiating primary and ancillary documents for M&A and similar transactions and documentation of entity formation and equity sharing arrangements. The candidate will work closely with other attorneys and paralegals, correspond and communicate with clients’ business and legal personnel, and coordinate with attorneys across other practice disciplines.
Qualifications:
- 5-7 years of practice experience required.
- Strong interpersonal, drafting, negotiation, written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills with high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
- Excellent drafting skills.
- Should be a strong analytical thinker with a business mind.
- Strong academic record.
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and to interact directly with clients.
- Licensed to practice in the State of New Jersey.
The Benefits We Offer:
Stark & Stark is committed to the health and well-being of its staff members. The firm offers a full range of benefits, including traditional major medical and hospitalization coverage, a prescription plan, a dental plan, a vision plan, life insurance, accidental death, and dismemberment coverage, a profit sharing, and a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, and paid holidays.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Stark & Stark’s policy is to make employment decisions based on merit, ability, and competence. Except where required by law, employment practices shall not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or staff member’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or any other characteristic provided by law. Qualified minorities, females, veterans, and attorneys with disabilities are encouraged to apply. It is also our policy to provide a work environment that is free of harassment of any kind, including that which is sexual, age-related, or ethnic.
Mansfield Rule
As part of its continued efforts to actively recruit and advance the recruitment, development, and promotion of diverse lawyers Stark & Stark is participating in Diversity Lab’s Midsize Mansfield Rule initiative. The Mansfield Rule is named for Arabella Mansfield, the first woman admitted to practice law in the United States. It measures whether law firms affirmatively consider diverse lawyers for hiring, advancement, and significant leadership roles.
Under this initiative, we strive for a candidate pool consisting of at least 30% women, attorneys from underrepresented racial and/or ethnic groups, lawyers with disabilities, and/or LGBTQ+ attorneys. The Mansfield Rule initiative also includes a commitment by Stark & Stark to be transparent in our internal governance, particularly with our selection guidelines and job descriptions for firm management roles and committees.
Open Paralegal Positions
Personal Injury Paralegal - Hamilton, NJ
Stark & Stark has an opening in our Hamilton office for an experienced Paralegal to join our team. The ideal candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit and be self-directed and detailed-oriented with the ability to organize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. The right candidate will have the extraordinary opportunity to continue their professional development in a challenging, but collegial, environment.
Responsibilities
- Preparing and drafting discovery demands and responses, and other legal documents.
- Correspondence and communication with defense counsel, clients, and others relevant parties.
- Managing project timelines, and performing legal research
- Working with clients, addressing issues as to medical treatment and temporary disability.
- Preparing cases for court, limited drafting pleadings, discovery demands and responses and other legal documents.
- Trial preparation.
Qualifications
- Experience in Plaintiff’s Personal Injury matters REQUIRED, with practical knowledge of litigation in Personal Injury, for example, auto and truck accident, medical malpractice, nursing home, etc.…
- Detail oriented.
- The individual should be well organized and able to see an assignment through to completion when given proper direction.
- The right candidate will have a minimum of 3-5 years of experience.
- A comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Office is REQUIRED.
- Ability to read, write and speak in Spanish is a plus.
- Paralegal Certificate or associate degree required.
Benefits We Offer
Stark & Stark is committed to the health and well-being of its staff members. The firm offers a full range of benefits, including traditional major medical and hospitalization coverage, a prescription plan, a dental plan, a vision plan, life insurance, accidental death, and dismemberment coverage, a profit sharing, and a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, and paid holidays.
Stark & Stark is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Stark & Stark has an opening in our Hamilton office for an experienced Paralegal to join our team. The ideal candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit and be self-directed and detailed-oriented with the ability to organize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. The right candidate will have the extraordinary opportunity to continue their professional development in a challenging, but collegial, environment.
Responsibilities
- Preparing and drafting discovery demands and responses, and other legal documents.
- Correspondence and communication with defense counsel, clients, and others relevant parties.
- Managing project timelines, and performing legal research
- Working with clients, addressing issues as to medical treatment and temporary disability.
- Preparing cases for court, limited drafting pleadings, discovery demands and responses and other legal documents.
- Trial preparation.
Qualifications
- Experience in Plaintiff’s Personal Injury matters REQUIRED, with practical knowledge of litigation in Personal Injury, for example, auto and truck accident, medical malpractice, nursing home, etc.…
- Detail oriented.
- The individual should be well organized and able to see an assignment through to completion when given proper direction.
- The right candidate will have a minimum of 3-5 years of experience.
- A comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Office is REQUIRED.
- Ability to read, write and speak in Spanish is a plus.
- Paralegal Certificate or associate degree required.
Benefits We Offer
Stark & Stark is committed to the health and well-being of its staff members. The firm offers a full range of benefits, including traditional major medical and hospitalization coverage, a prescription plan, a dental plan, a vision plan, life insurance, accidental death, and dismemberment coverage, a profit sharing, and a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, and paid holidays.
Stark & Stark is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Open Staff Positions
Marketing & Business Development Coordinator - Hamilton, NJ
The Marketing & Business Development Team at Stark & Stark has an opening for a Marketing & Business Development Coordinator. The Coordinator is responsible for supporting the marketing & business development activities for the attorneys and the Firm. The ideal candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit and be self-directed and detailed-oriented with the ability to organize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional communication skills, thrive in a team environment, and demonstrate an entrepreneurial mindset. The Marketing & Business Development Coordinator reports to the Director of Marketing & Business Development.
Responsibilities
This position will provide support for department initiatives to support the marketing and business development efforts of the Firm and the Attorneys. Duties include but are not limited to:
- Coordinate content on social media.
- Work closely with the Marketing and Facilities teams to plan, promote and execute firm events.
- Assemble various marketing materials and pitches for Attorneys, events, and other firm activities.
- Assist the Director of Marketing & Business Development with business development activities, including preparing proposals and responses to RFP's and conducting competitive research.
- Process and document marketing expenses.
- Maintain databases such as client feedback and CRM.
- Maintain marketing promotional inventory.
- Assist with the placement of articles in newspapers, business and trade publications, and online, as well as securing the reprint rights for press and attorney bylined articles.
- Prepares nomination details for submissions to various outlets.
- Manage client gifting initiatives.
- Work with the team to maintain regular reports regarding marketing and business development activities.
- Post appropriate business development and marketing-related information on the firm intranet.
- Assist the Director of Marketing in preparing for meetings and in compiling monthly reports.
Required Skills, Abilities, and Qualifications
- Represent the firm by attending and supporting events.
- Able to work efficiently and stay organized in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to work independently as well as on a team.
- Able to write clearly and concisely with strong ability to proofread.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office including PowerPoint and Excel.
- Familiarity with Canva and photoshop.
- Familiarity with website content management.
- Experience using digital marketing tools strongly preferred.
- Excellent ability to research and extract information from various data sources.
- Need to be adept at handling multiple tasks and organizing priorities in a dynamic, high-speed setting.
- Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Some travel required.
- 1-3 years’ experience.
Benefits We Offer
Stark & Stark is committed to the health and well-being of its staff members. The firm offers a full range of benefits, including traditional major medical and hospitalization coverage, a prescription plan, a dental plan, a vision plan, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment coverage, a profit sharing, and a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, and paid holidays.
Stark & Stark is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Legal Secretary (Floater) - Yardley, PA
Stark & Stark has an opening in our Yardley, PA office for an experienced legal secretary to join our team. The position will provide support for personal injury attorneys. The right candidate will have the extraordinary opportunity to continue their professional development in a challenging but collegial environment.
Responsibilities and Duties
Assignments may be short-term or longer-term, and flexibility with responsibilities are a must. Floater will be responsible for legal support duties, including:
- Perform general administration and secretarial tasks such as typing, preparing, editing, and proofreading documents.
- Perform Client intakes.
- Organize and maintain attorney calendars, including travel. Scheduling meetings and conferences.
- Assist with trial preparation, including exhibits, charts, graphs, and visual aids.
- Coordinate reimbursements for memberships, travel, conferences, and meetings.
- Prepare and submit expense reports. Act as backup to legal secretaries and reception to support clients, attorneys, and paralegals with overflow work. This may include:
- Gathering medical records
- Preparation of pleadings
- Discovery demands
- Discovery responses and motions
- Answering phones in a courteous and professional manner.
- Open New Matters
- Maintain attorney files.
- Scheduling meetings and conference calls.
- Scanning documents.
- Managing calendars and contacts.
- Send out FedEx and mailings.
Additionally:
- Applicants will also be required to provide receptionist and switchboard relief.
- Scheduling and booking conference rooms; serving as a backup receptionist.
- Support Special Projects – Administrative support.
Qualifications
The individual should be well organized and able to see an assignment through to its successful conclusion. Along with excellent telephone etiquette, the ideal candidate must project a positive attitude in person and on the phone and be able to prioritize work. Must be organized, able to work independently and with others, very detail oriented, and have excellent computer skills, able to multi-task, and very strong attention to detail.
Paralegal/Secretarial certificate or equivalent experience. 2 – 5 years of relevant experience in a law firm REQUIRED. Bachelor’s or associate degrees are preferred.
A comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Office is also REQUIRED.
Benefits We Offer
Stark & Stark is committed to the health and well-being of its staff members. The firm offers a full range of benefits, including traditional major medical and hospitalization coverage, a prescription plan, a dental plan, a vision plan, life insurance, accidental death, and dismemberment coverage, a profit sharing, and a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, and paid holidays.
Stark & Stark is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Legal Secretary - Hamilton, NJ
Stark & Stark is actively recruiting for a Legal Secretary in our Hamilton, New Jersey office. The ideal candidate will be self-directed and detailed-oriented with the ability to organize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Perform the legal support duties of client intake, gathering medical records and preparing pleadings, discovery demands, discovery responses, and motions.
- Professionally answer and handle phone calls and act as client liaison on practice matters.
- Manage the scheduling of conference calls with attorneys, mediations, court appearances with the clients, expert witnesses, other law firms, settlement conferences, oral arguments, and trials.
- Work with witnesses and other law firms to coordinate deposition and trial testimony.
- Handle miscellaneous administrative duties such as composing correspondence, proofing documents, copying, filing, faxing, mailing, and handling general office duties as needed.
- Process expense reimbursements as needed.
- Sort and distribute department mail.
- Handle other responsibilities as directed.
Qualifications
- The right candidate will have at least two years of law firm experience.
- Experience in Plaintiff’s Personal Injury matters is preferred.
- Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Office is a must.
The ideal candidate will be self-directed and detail oriented with a high level of accuracy. - Able to organize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to maintain a high level of discretion, judgment, confidentiality, professional and ethical standards in communications with both external and
- internal parties.
- Well organized and able to see an assignment through to successful conclusion.
- Self-directed; able to think analytically and solve problems with little direction.
- Able to demonstrate a customer service demeanor regardless of the person or issue at hand.
Abilities
- Mental reasoning ability to solve problems, make decisions, read, write, interpret, and organize data in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to sit or stand at a desk viewing a computer screen for long periods of time, typing on a keyboard.
- Ability to comprehend information visually on paper and a computer screen.
- Ability to communicate via a telephone.
- Ability to multitask with disciplined time management skills.
Benefits We Offer
Stark & Stark is committed to the health and well-being of its staff members. The firm offers a full range of benefits, including traditional major medical and hospitalization coverage, a prescription plan, a dental plan, a vision plan, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment coverage, a profit sharing, and a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, and paid holidays.
Stark & Stark is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Systems Administrator - Hamilton, NJ
Stark & Stark has an onsite opportunity in our Hamilton office for a Systems Administrator to join our team. The ideal candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit and be self-directed and detailed-oriented with the ability to organize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. The right candidate will have the extraordinary opportunity to continue their professional development in a challenging, but collegial, environment.
Responsibilities
Applicants should be comfortable interfacing with clients and vendors at all levels. This role will involve significant project management and require seeing deployments through from beginning to end. Responsibilities will include but not be limited to: researching, evaluating, and recommending new technology or methods of daily operational activities; support end users in problem analysis; participation in special projects and team assignments; develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures; system and security monitoring; verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes; daily backup operations; ensure availability and acceptable levels of performance of mission critical resources including telecom circuits; and identifying departmental needs and making suggestions regarding technical direction.
Required Qualifications
- 2+ years working in a law firm or other professional services firm
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent, or equivalent technology experience
- 4+ years in system or network administration
- Experience working with backup software (i.e. Veeam) or other virtualization backup software
- Firm grasp of networking fundamentals
- Microsoft 365 management (Entra, Endpoint Manager, Purview, etc.)
- Cisco Meraki networking experience
- Fortinet Fortigate firewall experience
- Identity Management (SSO, MFA, etc.) system experience (Okta)
- Expert knowledge in the management and monitoring of Microsoft and VMWare server infrastructures
Preferred Qualifications
- Amazon AWS and/or Nutanix experience
- Experience with Document Management Systems (NetDocuments)
- Experience with HP and Dell server hardware
- Zoom and Zoom Room management experience
- Experience with WAN networking technologies such as VPN and SD-WAN
- Cybersecurity experience specifically relating to ISO27001 (a plus)
Personal Attributes
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Self-learner with a genuine interest in technology
- Highly self-motivated and directed.
Benefits We Offer
Stark & Stark is committed to the health and well-being of its staff members. The firm offers a full range of benefits, including traditional major medical and hospitalization coverage, a prescription plan, a dental plan, a vision plan, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment coverage, a profit sharing, and a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, and paid holidays.
Stark & Stark is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
AR Specialist - Hamilton, NJ
Stark & Stark has an opening for a Collections Specialist to support our firm in its new, state of the art office in Hamilton, NJ. The ideal candidate is self-directed and detailed-oriented with the ability to organize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. The right candidate will have the extraordinary opportunity to continue their professional development in a challenging, but collegial, environment.
Responsibilities
- Periodically review status of client accounts with the assigned billing attorneys and group leaders to review matters and develop action plans.
- Proactively identify potential collection issues.
- Monthly reminder communication.
- 15-day soft touch calls to all new clients.
- 45-day gentle reminder calls to new and ongoing collection clients.
- On-going communication with clients entering 45-60 days past due.
- Monitoring accounts receivable and recommending accounts to escalate for collections.
- Maintaining detailed records of steps taken to facilitate payments.
- Perform analysis to assist group leaders in maintaining current accounts.
- DSO analysis
- Collection rate (3mo, 6mo, 1yr)
- Assisting with researching, analyzing, and resolving client inquiries.
Qualifications
- Collaborative work ethic.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting preferred.
- Five years of previous law firm collections experience (preferred), or other professional services organization.
- Proficiency with Word and advanced Excel skills.
- Must have capacity to follow up on client accounts with minimal supervision.
- Motivated self-starter with high degree of accuracy.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and negotiating skills.
- Strong analytical skills
- Persistence
- Familiarity with Rippe/Surepoint preferred.
- Previous experience interfacing with law firm partners and clients is a plus.
- Teamwork and collaboration.
Benefits We Offer
Stark & Stark is committed to the health and well-being of its staff members. The firm offers a full range of benefits, including traditional major medical and hospitalization coverage, a prescription plan, a dental plan, a vision plan, life insurance, accidental death, and dismemberment coverage, a profit sharing, and a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, and paid holidays.
Stark & Stark is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Interested?
If you are interested in providing us with your qualifications, send a cover letter with resume, indicating current salary requirements and law school transcript to: Stark & Stark, Attn: Director of Human Resources, P.O. Box 5315, Princeton, NJ 08543-5315 or to HR@stark-stark.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Stark & Stark’s policy is to make employment decisions based on merit, ability and competence. Except where required by law, employment practices shall not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or staff member’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or any other characteristic provided by law. Qualified minorities, females, veterans and attorneys with disabilities are encouraged to apply. It is also our policy to provide a work environment that is free of harassment of any kind, including that which is sexual, age related or ethnic.
Mansfield Rule
As part of its continued efforts to actively recruit and advance the recruitment, development, and promotion of diverse lawyers Stark & Stark is participating in Diversity Lab’s Midsize Mansfield Rule initiative. The Mansfield Rule is named for Arabella Mansfield, the first woman admitted to practice law in the United States. It measures whether law firms affirmatively consider diverse lawyers for hiring, advancement, and significant leadership roles.
Under this initiative, we strive for a candidate pool consisting of at least 30% women, attorneys from underrepresented racial and/or ethnic groups, lawyers with disabilities, and/or LGBTQ+ attorneys. The Mansfield Rule initiative also includes a commitment by Stark & Stark to be transparent in our internal governance, particularly with our selection guidelines and job descriptions for firm management roles and committees.
Benefits
Stark & Stark is committed to the health and well-being of its staff members. The firm offers a full range of benefits, including traditional major medical and hospitalization coverage, a prescription plan, a dental plan, vision plan, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment coverage, a profit sharing and 401(k) plan, paid vacation and paid holidays.
The complete terms and conditions of employment at Stark & Stark are contained in the the Stark & Stark policy handbook and in relevant plan documentation. Benefits are subject to change at any time.