Legal Assistant Senior

We are hiring a Legal Assistant Senior for one of our clients in Trenton NJ.

Job Description:

This position involves providing secretarial and paralegal support to agency executives in legal settings including drafting legal documents conducting research managing cases and preparing for trials. The role also includes administrative tasks such as answering phones handling correspondence and utilizing word processing systems with a requirement for considerable knowledge of court systems and legal terminology as well as paralegal training or experience.

Job Duties:

• Provides secretarial /paralegal assistance to agency executives in legal environments who have complex program or operational responsibilities.
• Performs research management and case investigative work.
• Drafts affidavits pleadings briefs and interrogatories.
• Prepares exhibit books.
• Reads and summarizes depositions for trail use.
• Responds to plaintiffs discovery requests.
• Interviews witnesses and defendants to prepare for trail.
• Uses word processing system to key proofread and edit letters memoranda briefs pleadings expense
• travel and miscellaneous forms from handwritten drafts dictation and t typed drafts.
• Takes and transcribes legal dictation.
• Types routine correspondence.
• Answers telephone take messages direct calls receive clients and distribute deliveries.
• Performs other assigned duties such as mail creating case files and filing completing and maintaining forms and making travel arrangements.
• Considerable knowledge of the State and/or federal court systems of legal case management and litigation support techniques.
• Considerable knowledge of legal terminology office / administrative management ability with a variety of clerical / administrative duties.
• Ability to use word processing software / systems.
• Paralegal training or experience.

Work hours:

• 9 to 5
• Lunch (Unpaid): One (1) hour anytime between 11 am and 2 pm

Additional information:

• Dress Code: Business casual Monday through Thursday; jeans permitted on Friday only.
• Parking: Yes

About Us:

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