What are the responsibilities and job description for the Family Law Office - Legal Assistant position at McKinnon Legal?
Job Description
Job Description
Are you adept at thriving in a high-speed setting and consistently producing top-notch work? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you! Join McKinnon Legal as a Legal Assistant, where your duties will include overseeing office communications, such as handling phone calls and emails, managing client intake, scheduling meetings and travel, and ensuring our legal team is informed of approaching deadlines. Our tight-knit team operates collaboratively on-sit. Telecommuting is not an option for this role.
Compensation : 20 - $23 hourly
Responsibilities :
- Ability to follow systems and checklists for meeting the required key performance indicators
- Comfortable on the phone with judicial staff, opposing counsel, and handling urgent client matters
- Experience managing a heavy caseload
- Manage office correspondence and administrative tasks such as answering phone calls, communicating with opposing attorney offices, taking dictation, responding to emails, and reminding the team of upcoming deadlines
- Performing client intake into our CRM and scheduling consultations as required
- Coordinating with judicial staff and opposing counsel to calendar trials and evidentiary hearings
- Keeping deadlines, eFiling, assisting the paralegals and attorneys with docket tracking
- Assist with the creation of various litigation documents, including pleadings, motions, subpoenas, affidavits, contracts, and briefs for case preparation, and proofread documents as needed
- Use daily time records to properly process client billing with support from the accounting department
- Undertake other duties as needed to ensure the firm operates efficiently
- Minimum 2-3 years of experience in a law firm or office environment as an assistant or its equivalent
- Must be able to type at least 50 WPM
- Ability to multi-task and move through client workflows quickly
- Collecting and compiling discovery and working closely with paralegals
- Ability to be cross-trained and cover tasks to assist the team
Qualifications : Ideal Candidate :
About Company
McKINNON LEGAL's passion lies in bringing about better solutions for the family litigation clients we serve. We aspire to expand the practice to a multiple-lawyer organization to serve more families going through hard times coping with and resolving a myriad of issues, including co-parenting, timesharing, the amicable division of assets acquired during the marriage, support, and other ancillary matters related to the family. We enjoy bringing people out of difficult situations and are grateful when they let us know how our firm has made a huge impact on the trajectory of their futures. We love bringing resolution to acrimonious situations and helping post-divorce parties live better.
Salary : $20 - $23
