Senior Legal Assistant - Insurance Defense Litigation

Job Description

Company Description

WOLFE & WYMAN LLP is a civil litigation firm that provides legal services to corporate, institutional, and individual clients throughout the United States. The firm was founded in 1994 and has a long-term focus on partnering with clients. Their attorneys and professional staff are dedicated to delivering excellent service. WOLFE & WYMAN LLP is committed to finding pragmatic solutions for their clients' problems with a deep understanding of the client's industry.

Legal Assistant Job Duties

• Produces information by transcribing, formatting, inputting, editing, retrieving, copying, and transmitting text, data, and graphics, coordinating case preparation.
• Conserves attorneys time by reading, researching, reviewing, verifying, and routing correspondence, reports and legal documents; drafting letters and documents; collecting and analyzing information; initiating telecommunications; organizing client conferences, and attorney meetings; scheduling couriers, court reporters, expert witnesses, and other special functions; coordinating preparation of charts, graphs, and other courtroom visuals; preparing expense reports.
• Maintains attorney calendar by planning and scheduling conferences, teleconferences, dispositions, and travel; recording and monitoring court appearance dates, pleadings, and filing requirements; monitoring evidence-gathering; anticipating changes in litigation or transaction preparation requirements.
• Represents attorney by communicating and obtaining information; following-up on delegated assignments; knowing when to act and when to refer matters to attorney.
• Provides historical reference by developing and utilizing filing and retrieval systems; recording meeting discussions; maintaining transcripts; documenting and maintaining evidence.
  
  

Qualifications

• Excellent research and analytical skills
• Need to be able to multitask
• Ability to work well with different personalities.
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Need to know how to e-file with FL Courts
• Detail Oriented
• Legal Calendaring
• Work well under pressure/ deadlines
• Comfortable with different software (preferably experience with iManage, ProLaw, Outlook, MS Word, Kofax)
• 5 years of experience in civil litigation (insurance defense).
• Must be able to come in the office Mon. - Fri.