Contract through the end of the year with the chance to go permanent! On-site 5 days/week
Essential Duties
- Team-player who can also work independently
- Organized individual able to multi-task in fast paced environment
- Familiar with transcribing legal briefs, E-mail correspondence, letters, and confidential memorandum
- Familiar with the varying types of legal documents and able to type from rough and oral drafts
- Court E-Filings
- Comfortable answering calls, transferring and message taking in Attorney absences
- Prepares, maintains and confirms daily work calendars and schedule meetings and appointments
- Assists with travel arrangements, internal correspondence, reimbursements for attorneys, paralegals
- Reads, sorts and ensures incoming mail is timely delivered; ensures outgoing mail is processed
- Processes bills; proofs billing sheets; reviews and edits bills
- Maintain attorneys’ legal confidential and administrative files
RELATED DUTIES
Assist other Attorneys and Legal Assistants within the Group
Proactively manage contacts in Outlook and Interaction
Minimum qualifications
Training and Experience
Three to five years of legal assistance experience. Must type a minimum of 70 words per minutes.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skill
- Comprehensive knowledge of modern legal office practices and procedures
- Considerable knowledge of legal documents preparation, legal terminology and court procedures
- Comprehensive knowledge of MS Word, MS Outlook, Excel, redline comparisons, BigHand (digital dictation)
- Considerable knowledge of effective proofreading
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
Current Programs
- Microsoft Office Suite 2016
- Innova Numbering (in Word)
- Litera Changepro
- Adobe or Kofax
- ProForma Tracker
- Chrome River
- Intapp Open – New Business Intake
- E-Filing
- Interaction
- DocXtools
- Multistyle Numbering
- Bighand
- EMS Web Scheduler
