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Job Description
Job Description
Legal Assistant – Thriving Immigration Law Firm
A thriving Immigration Law Firm in MIDTOWN WEST is looking for an enthusiastic Legal Assistant to join their growing team! Seeking a wonderful team player to handle administrative support and client communication. The ideal candidate has strong administrative / office experience stellar organizational skills.
60-62k base paid OT discretionary bonus, benefits.
5 days week / in office (Monday-Friday)
Typical working hours : 9am-6pm
Responsibilities include, but aren’t limited to :
- Provide legal administrative support, service, and expertise to staff and clients
- Receive and organize mail. Including scanning and uploading mail into client folders as well as timely notifying team members of importance notices.
- Timely notifying clients of receipt notices, approval notices, and employment / travel authorization approvals
- Prepare and send out case engagement agreements, questionnaires, and initiation packages
- Assist Supervising Paralegal and Partners with case initiations, preparation, and filings
- Prepare, organize, and maintain spreadsheets and or other workflow management systems to track client information and cases.
- Come into the office as needed for printing, compiling, and mailing out cases. Team members will do their best to coordinate so that filings are limited to just a single or a couple of days.
- General filing; organization of files
- Submit and track case inquiries; check statuses of cases with USCIS
- Researching and maintaining up to date knowledge of changing immigration laws
Salary : $60,000 - $62,000
