What are the responsibilities and job description for the Litigation Legal Assistant position at Eckert Seamans?
Eckert Seamans is a full-service national law firm with a strong reputation and history of success that spans more than 65 years. With approximately 300 lawyers across a network of 15 offices, we provide clients with proactive, solution-oriented business and litigation counsel. We are seeking an experienced Litigation Legal Assistant for our Wilmington, DE office.
Primary Responsibilities :
- Preparation of legal documents such as letters, correspondence, briefs, and pleadings
- General utilization and submission of clerical and administrative forms such as check requests and expense reports
- Coordination of conference calls, video conferences and other interpersonal communication as requested.
- Preparation of mailings
- Coordination of large-scale document jobs with Office Services
- As requested per attorney daily monitoring of deadlines, calendars, voicemails, answering of phone
- Assist attorneys with trial preparation and provide trial support as requested
- Maintain client files
- Copying and scanning of documents
- Open and closing of client matters
- Provide general assistance firmwide as a member of the legal support team as needed
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Skills / Abilities
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Benefits :
Eckert Seamans is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability or any protected military or veteran status.
Eckert Seamans will not consider resumes submitted by external agencies or recruiters unless specifically requested and approved by an HR / Recruiting representative for this position. Prior approval is required even if the agency or recruiter has an agreement in place with Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC. An external agency or recruiter will not be compensated in any way for the submission of a candidate for this position if prior approval is not obtained.
