If you are an experience litigation legal assistant seeking to join a great firm in Houston, TX with a great culture and team offering COMPETITIVE pay and benefits, apply here!
Duties, including but not limited to:
- Supporting attorneys with trial preparation including pleadings notebooks, indexes, and exhibits
- Filing in State and Federal Courts
- Drafting, proofreading, editing and formatting legal documents and correspondence such as shell pleading and discovery documents
- Maintain control files of matters in progress and follows up to ensure that court ordered actions are competed
- Periodically request pre-bills and statements for billing purposes and prepare statements for signatures and send out
- Calendaring deadlines, schedules and attorney travel
- Prepare and send faxes, documents, mail, certified mail, overnight mail, FedEx packages and interoffice mail
- Mastering of assigned tasks such as correspondence, spreadsheets, minutes, reports, and other documents
Qualifications
- 5+ years of litigation experience at a law firm
- Defense and/or appellate experience preferred
- Experience with Microsoft Office products
- Experience working with various practice and case management databases and timekeeping and billing systems
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
