Legal Assistant
Legal Assistant
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Job Description
Essential Responsibilities:
- Perform miscellaneous administrative tasks such as emailing calendaring word processing filing and copying and minor research.
- Prepare and proofread correspondence pleadings memos and other types of documents from written and/or oral drafts from the attorneys.
- File legal documents with courts and other appropriate entities.
- Answer client telephone calls and take messages for attorneys.
- Maintain calendar and deadline reminder systems and utilize master calendar system for attorneys.
- Make appointments for attorney.
- Receive clients and visitors and maintain good public relations with clients.
- Edit monthly invoices to clients.
- Consistent and on-time attendance is required.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Ability to read and write in order to proof and perform minor legal editing (e.g. punctuation grammar typographical spelling) of routine law office correspondence and legal matters. Perform non-complex arithmetic calculations on forms and documents and maintain records and filing systems at a level normally acquired through completion of high school or equivalent.
- A minimum of three years experience in office environment preferably a law office.
- Microsoft Office Outlook Word and Excel experience required. TABS PracticeMaster NetDocuments or other similar billing case management and document management systems experience preferred.
- Ability to organize/prioritize numerous tasks and complete them under time constraints.
- Interpersonal skills necessary in order to communicate with a diverse group of clients attorneys and staff to provide information with ordinary courtesy and tact.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to search the internet and public databases.
- English Proficiency- speaking reading and writing.
Employment Type
Full-time
