Legal Secretary
Legal Secretary
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Job Description
Job Description
The Washington DC office is seeking an experienced and dedicated Legal Secretary to support 56 attorneys within our regulatory practice. The successful candidate demonstrates good judgment strong secretarial and communication skills flexibility and the ability to work under pressure. Must be comfortable with technology and can help manage the team. Discretion proactiveness and the ability to manage confidential information with sound judgement are essential along with a strong willingness to contribute as a member of a highfunctioning team.
Representative Key Responsibilities
Responsibility for ensuring the efficient daily administrative operations of the assigned legal team.
Communicate with attorneys and assist with balancing the teams workload to ensure completion of projects within established time frames and quality standards.
Mastery of Outlook Word PowerPoint Excel and willingness to master other programs as required. Ability to send documents by fileshare (e.g. Litera) and familiarity with Microsoft Teams Zoom and WebEx.
Ability to manage matter workspaces and adhere to established naming conventions using the firms document management system NetDocuments.
Draft format proofread and edit legal and policy documents including correspondence memoranda filings reports and presentations. Ensure compliance with firm and client standards.
Track matter progress and help ensure timely filing of required documentation including government submissions.
Provide high level administrative support to assigned legal team including assistance with client billing expense reimbursements vendor invoice processing and the coordination of incoming and outgoing mail and overnight deliveries.
Maintaining calendars team lists schedule appointments reserve conference rooms and arranging conference room setups and coordinate domestic and international travel.
Keep up to date with the policies and procedures of the varying administration agencies and courts that the attorneys practice in.
Support Firmwide client service initiatives. Providing quality service to internal departments and external parties by interacting professionally and displaying a can do attitude via electronic and print correspondence when answering telephone calls taking and relaying messages greeting visitors and coordinating attorney client or other inquiries in the absence of the attorney.
Qualifications
High School Diploma. College Degree preferred.
At least six 6 years of secretarial experience.
Accurate typing speed of 65 wpm.
Washington DC pay range for this role with final offer amount dependent on skillset and experience is up to $85k.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
