Legal Assistant Senior
Legal Assistant Senior
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Job Description
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:
We are specialized in recruiting and deliver the best professional talent of industry and we are committed to deliver best experience for our clients and job seekers. With over two decades of experience in the recruitment industry we proudly help you to find the next job that matches your professional skills. Our team understands your needs or requirement before starting the recruitment that enables to find the high quality of talent with high success rate of talent delivery keeps us continue to be the best in the industry. By responding to this job posting you are consenting to receive text/SMS messages from us. Thank you.
Employment Type
Full Time
Company Industry
Key Skills
- Administrative Law
- Intellectual Property
- Employment Law
- Advocacy
- Legal Research
- Contract Law
- Criminal Cases
- Legal procedures
- Law
- Legal Operations
- Private Practice
- Civil Litigation
- Federal Courts
- Labor Law
- Arbitration Law
