What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Assistant position at Sweeny Wingate & Barrow?
Job Description
Job Description
Position Summary
The Legal Assistant provides support to Partners and / or Associates with legal administrative tasks.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following :
- Compose letters
- Transcribe dictation
- Correspond with clients
- Submit state and federal filings electronically
- Manage attorney calendars
- Prepare pleadings
- Schedule out of town trips and depositions
- Communicate with Judges, Court Officials, and outside counsel
- Open and sort mail
- Set up new client files and make time entries for attorneys in ProLaw
- Submit check requests
- Answer phone calls for multiple attorneys
Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is constantly (5-8 hrs. / shift) required to talk or hear. The employee is constantly required to use hands or fingers, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is constantly required to reach outward. The employee is frequently (2-5 hrs. / shift) required to sit. The employee is occasionally (up to 2 hrs. / shift) required to stand; walk; reach above shoulder; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Company Description
Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A. was started in 1993 when the named partners combined their litigation and transactional experience to create a firm committed to excellence, integrity, and service. Since that time, the Firm has grown to approximately 16 lawyers practicing civil defense litigation, and probate and estate planning law. Our firm is structured to meet the litigation and consulting needs of individuals, businesses, and insurance companies throughout South Carolina. Our practice is statewide and we regularly practice in each of the State's 46 counties and all federal courts. We work hard to build long standing relationships with those we represent.
Company Description
Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A. was started in 1993 when the named partners combined their litigation and transactional experience to create a firm committed to excellence, integrity, and service. Since that time, the Firm has grown to approximately 16 lawyers practicing civil defense litigation, and probate and estate planning law. Our firm is structured to meet the litigation and consulting needs of individuals, businesses, and insurance companies throughout South Carolina. Our practice is statewide and we regularly practice in each of the State's 46 counties and all federal courts. We work hard to build long standing relationships with those we represent.