Colorado - Washington DC Legal Assistant
Colorado - Washington DC Legal Assistant
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08-06-2025
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Job Description
Job Title: Legal Assistant
Patterson Real Bird and Wilson LLP is located in beautiful Boulder County Colorado. Nestled near trails parks and lakes our Colorado office is in Louisville Colorado. We are a fast-paced law firm with offices in Colorado Washington D.C. North Dakota and Wisconsin serving American Indian tribes tribal entities and individual tribal members across the United States.
We are looking for a Legal Assistant to join our amazing team of legal professionals. The ideal candidate should have at least 4 years of paralegal experience who can multi-task and is willing to learn and work together as a team in order to best serve our clients. Strong organizational skills time management and attention to detail are a must for a candidate to be successful in this role.
Overall Responsibility:
Support and assist our DC attorneys from our CO office and support and assist other team members as needed including work on complex litigation and appeals.
Responsibilities include:
- Legal assistant work on complex litigation cases in tribal federal and state trial and appellate courts.
- Completing and filing quarterly lobbying reports.
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and prioritize responsibilities.
- Excellent proofreading skills.
- Skilled in legal writing with ability to independently prepare initial drafts of discovery requests and responses declarations various motions and other commonly used documents and pleadings.
- Compile and organize digital files mediation binders and trial notebooks and exhibits.
- Review court rules in numerous courts to determine filing deadlines and court-specific formatting and filing requirements.
- File and serve pleadings motions and other documents with tribal federal and state trial and appellate courts.
- Management of calendar and litigation deadlines in accordance with various jurisdictional Rules.
- Document management and coordination of documents for production as well as document review redaction organization and summarization for purposes of discovery and depositions.
- Communicate with courts clients witnesses experts and/or opposing counsel as needed.
- Make travel arrangements and meeting plans.
- Expense reimbursements.
- Maintain attorney calendars schedules and billing entries.
- Perform a number of other similar or related duties which may not be specifically included within this position description but which are consistent with the general level of the responsibilities described.
Qualifications include:
- 4 years paralegal/legal assistant experience in a law firm.
- Bachelors Degree Paralegal Certification or relevant work experience.
- Attention to details.
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills; ability and willingness to interact and communicate effectively with a variety of personalities.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong planning and organizational skills.
- Ability to multitask and prioritize with minimal oversight.
- Flexible good judgment discretion and a strong work ethic.
- Team player.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite Adobe NetDocuments - Clio software experience is a plus.
We offer competitive compensation commensurate with experience with generous benefits including health insurance dental vision 401k contributions and a comfortable work environment.
Work Location:
In-Person
Work Hours:
8:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m. MT M-F
Application Materials Required: Cover Letter Resume/CV
Posting Date: February 13 2025
Un-posting Date: Ongoing
Posting Contact Name: Stephanie Kroner Firm Administrator
Compensation: $31.00 - $40.00 per hour
OUR MISSION
Patterson Earnhart Real Bird & Wilson LLP is a majority native-owned law firm. As tribal advocates there could be no greater honor or privilege than having the opportunity to directly serve tribes in promoting economic development addressing pressing infrastructure issues protecting tribal water rights and advancing the sovereignty and jurisdiction of tribal nations.
Patterson Earnhart Real Bird & Wilson LLP is dedicated to the representation of American Indian tribes tribal entities and individual Indians across the United States. Our mission is to provide superior legal services specifically tailored to meet the needs of our clients while also honoring the sovereignty self-sufficiency and self-governance of those clients.
OUR WORK
We serve as General Counsel and Special Counsel to Indian tribal governments and their enterprises to implement their laws regulations policies and priorities for their tribes and members. We work as true partners with every level of tribal governments and their staff to effectuate a plan for the delivery of legal services that is appropriate to meet the challenges and demands of the client.
We also work to prevent attacks on tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction and ensure that the Federal government upholds its treaty and trust responsibilities to Indian tribes. We resolve issues on the local level in collaboration with national tribal organizations and through advocacy with law makers in Washington D.C.
CAREERS
If you are pursuing a career in the legal field and have an interest in federal Indian law consider joining our team at Native Law Group. With offices in Louisville Colorado Fort Yates North Dakota and Washington D.C. our firm is dedicated to the representation of American Indian tribes tribal entities and individual Indians across the United States.
Being part of Native Law Group means you also are part of a powerful nationwide effort to advance the causes of tribal sovereignty self-sufficiency and self-governance for the benefit of Tribal Nations.
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