Legal Practice Assistant

Role Overview

• Provide varied and more complex support to designated lawyers and other Legal Practice Assistants
• Proactively maintain overview of timekeepers’ workload and caseload
• Create, edit, revise, redline, and/or proofread documents
• Maintain timekeepers’ calendars of meetings and business trips
• File hard-copy and electronic documents with appropriate courts and agencies
• Process and route incoming mail, faxes, and electronic communications
• Prepare outgoing mail for prompt delivery
• Coordinate travel arrangements for timekeepers
• Maintain file organization in the firm’s document management system
• Conduct internet research as directed by timekeepers

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Previous law firm experience of five or more years or equivalent preferred
• Ability to accurately type 70 wpm
• Strong command of the English language, including excellent spelling, grammar, punctuation, form, and style
• Solid knowledge of personal computer and system utilities or other comparable document production software
• Familiarity with basic office equipment
• Excellent organizational skills for prioritizing workload
• Ability to compose correspondence
• Knowledge of library operations and records storage procedures
• Knowledge of records management
• Working knowledge of state and federal courts and administrative agency rules, procedures, and deadlines
• Familiarity with legal terminology and procedures pertinent to the area of assignment.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid sabbaticals
• Accrued paid time off plan starting at 20 days annually
• Personal medical and parental leave
• Up to 10 paid holidays
• Family care benefits