Legal Assistant

Job Summary

As a Legal Assistant, you’ll keep legal matters moving by coordinating documents, research, filings, and client communication. You will support litigation attorneys, primarily, and will have the capacity to assist lawyers in transactions and financial services. Your impact: Accurate, timely legal support helps attorneys serve clients and advance matters efficiently.

Duties

• Prepare, proofread, and format legal correspondence, pleadings, contracts, and other documents; support legal drafting and writing.
• Organize case files, conduct document review, manage records in document management systems, and use legal case management tools.
• Conduct legal research using Westlaw; track procedural requirements and assist with filings.
• Support litigation, including civil, general and commercial matters; communicate with clients and handle confidential information carefully.
• Assist with time entry
• Submit invoices for payment and expenses for reimbursement through Chrome River, our invoice and expense software.
• May be required to assist in reviewing attorneys bills for accuracy and completion.

Experience

• Legal support, legal administrative, or law office experience; paralegal experience and personal injury case experience are relevant.
• Strong organizational, writing, proofreading, research, interviewing, and client communication skills; professional phone etiquette and word processing ability.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, iManage, and legal research or document management systems is useful.
• Knowledge of procedural law and experience with litigation.

Working Conditions: This position requires sitting for long periods of time while operating a computer. At times, employees are required to work in excess of the normal work schedule. Employees in this position must be mobile, have the ability to bend, and have ability to lift and carry files weighing approximately 10-15 lbs.