Employment Opportunities
Interested in joining the Gary Wojtan team? We’re always looking for dependable, hardworking people who take pride in what they do.
Explore our current employment opportunities and submit an application using the form below. Whether you’re an experienced professional or looking for a new opportunity to grow your skills, we’d be happy to learn more about you.
Current Openings
Established Cheektowaga Law Practice | Full-Time or Part-Time | Salary Based on Experience
Are you interested in building a career in the legal world and finding an opportunity where you can learn, grow, and take on meaningful responsibility?
The Law Office of Gary J. Wojtan, P.C., Attorneys at Law, is an established Cheektowaga law practice where we have served clients throughout Western New York for over 40 years. We are seeking a bright, motivated, dependable legal assistant to join our practice.
Some legal experience would be helpful, but we are not necessarily looking for someone who already knows everything. We are looking for the right person who learns quickly, pays attention to detail, takes initiative, enjoys responsibility, and can work well directly with our clients in preparing documents and assembling information.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who has had some background in legal work but who wants to develop more practical, hands-on experience while working directly with experienced attorneys.
What You’ll Do
This position offers a wide variety of legal work, and experience in the following areas would be particularly helpful:
▪ Estates and Surrogate’s matters,
▪ Wills and Trusts, Estate planning,
▪ Medicaid
▪ Bankruptcy
▪ Real estate
Responsibilities will vary with the needs of the practice, and may include:
▪ Preparing a wide variety of legal documents, correspondence, and financial disclosure forms for clients
▪ Professional and courteous communication with clients, courts, and other offices
▪ Tracking deadlines, managing cases, and responding to client needs
▪ Gathering and organizing information and documentation
▪ Learning the procedures and details necessary to handle matters from the beginning to conclusion, along with the assigned attorney
▪ Working closely and cooperatively in a small office environment and adapting to changing needs
What We’re Looking For
The strongest candidate will be someone who is:
• Basic knowledge of legal documents, pleadings, court filings, and NYCEF
• Professional and comfortable interacting with clients
• Able to learn new procedures quickly
• Able to handle confidential and sensitive information appropriately
• Willing to take initiative and accept increasing responsibility
• Comfortable with computers and learning new technology
• A strong written and verbal communicator
• Genuinely interested in developing or furthering a career in Law
Compensation, Schedule, And Benefits
▪ Salary will depend on relevant experience, skill, and ambition.
▪ Full-time, 40-hour work week ; Part-time forhe right candidate
▪ Flexible scheduling within the hours of 8 am to 6 pm
▪ Paid lunch.
▪ Paid vacation
An Opportunity To Learn And Grow
This isn’t a position where you’ll spend every day doing exactly the same thing.
You’ll have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience across several areas of law, learn directly from an attorneys with decades of practice experience, and develop your skills and responsibilities as you become familiar with the practice.
For someone who is sharp, curious, dependable and genuinely interested in the legal world, this is an opportunity to build valuable real-world experience and grow professionally. Interested candidates are invited to submit a resume and a brief introduction explaining their interest in the position and the legal field.
