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Legal Assistant

Coda SearchStaffing
Newark, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 2/6/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/26/2025

Essential Duties

  • Team-player who can also work independently
  • Organized individual able to multi-task in fast paced environment
  • Familiar with transcribing legal briefs, E-mail correspondence, letters, and confidential memorandum
  • Familiar with the varying types of legal documents and able to type from rough and oral drafts
  • Court E-Filings
  • Comfortable answering calls, transferring and message taking in Attorney absences
  • Prepares, maintains and confirms daily work calendars and schedule meetings and appointments
  • Assists with travel arrangements, internal correspondence, reimbursements for attorneys, paralegals
  • Reads, sorts and ensures incoming mail is timely delivered; ensures outgoing mail is processed
  • Processes bills; proofs billing sheets; reviews and edits bills
  • Maintain attorneys’ legal confidential and administrative files

RELATED DUTIES

  • Assist other Attorneys and Legal Assistants within 3 Practice Groups
  • Proactively manage contacts in Outlook and Interaction
  • Minimum qualifications

    Training and Experience

  • Three to five years of legal assistance experience. Must type a minimum of 70 words per minutes.
  • Knowledge, Abilities and Skill

  • Comprehensive knowledge of modern legal office practices and procedures
  • Considerable knowledge of legal documents preparation, legal terminology and court procedures
  • Comprehensive knowledge of MS Word, MS Outlook, Excel, redline comparisons, BigHand (digital dictation)
  • Considerable knowledge of effective proofreading
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Current Programs

  • Microsoft Office Suite 2016
  • Innova Numbering (in Word)
  • Litera Changepro
  • Adobe or Kofax
  • ProForma Tracker
  • Chrome River
  • Intapp Open – New Business Intake
  • E-Filing
  • Interaction
  • DocXtools
  • Multistyle Numbering
  • Bighand
  • EMS Web Scheduler
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