Legal Assistants support lawyers directly, and may be required to supervise other legal staff such as legal secretaries or file clerks.Legal Assistants should have strong analytical, communication and organizational skills, as well as computer and technical knowledge.In some cases, law firms prefer three to five years of legal experience in a law firm or other corporate legal department.
Your responsibilities
- Take care of matter management and record keeping
- Word processing, filing and faxing
- Round up documents for photocopying/scanning
- Produce correspondence and memorandum
- Gather documents and assemble data as directed by lawyers and paralegals
- Administer computer database input and retrieval
- Develop an organization system for e-documents and files
- Search and retrieve electronic documents from a variety of court and agency web sites
- Direct legal research and investigative tasks, including obtaining information or documents from outside parties, as directed
- Ensure there are no errors in document copies, as the originals
Requirements
- Organizing and tracking files for important transactions or case documents, including pleadings and voluminous discovery documents; creating and maintaining a case-management database
- Drafting legal court documents, such as pleadings, motions, affidavits and subpoenas; transactional documents, such as trusts, wills, contracts and real estate leases; and closing documents
- Microsoft Outlook experience
- Well-founded grasp of Legal Assistant
- Expertise in Microsoft Excel
- Practical knowledge of Legal Assistant
- Strong familiarity with Microsoft Office Suites
- Comprehensive knowledge of LexisNexis
- Wide ranging experience with ICCES
- Proven knowledge of Complaint Handling
- General familiarity with Litigation Legal Assistant
- Calendar Management experience
- Quality experience with Litigation Legal Assistant
- Investigating the factual evidence of a transaction or case and preparing exhibits, charts and diagrams to display information
- Experience assisting lawyers in preparing for transactional closings, depositions, hearings, trials and conferences; completing many administrative tasks, including, working on individual cases or transactions
- 2 years of relevant experience
- Conducting routine discovery
Take the next step in your legal career as part of this dynamic, growing firm. We want to hear from anyone who is eager to work who loves working in a strong team-oriented environment.
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