What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Assistant- Commercial Real Estate/Land Use position at Zerega Consulting?
Our client, a prestigious firm, seeks an experienced Legal Assistant to join their successful Commercial Real Estate / Land Use team in their Tampa, FL office. The role comes with a great salary package with additional perks such as paid health care, gym reimbursement, and parking. The culture is compassionate, and the atmosphere is top-notch.
Essential Duties :
- Manage the day-to-day schedules of the attorneys.
- Assist attorneys with preparation of legal documents. Create, edit, and proofread work product to ensure accuracy.
- Maintain multiple attorneys’ calendars – deadlines, appointments and meetings.
- Processing reimbursements, expense reports and check requests.
- Inputs, reviews, edits, and closes timekeepers' time entries.
- Handles monthly client billing. Reviews billing pre-bills for accuracy and completeness. Performs client, matter and timekeeper inquiries, and narrative edits.
- Opens new matters and generate client conflict checks. Sets up and maintains timekeeper's work files, including daily and regular filing.
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