Legal Assistant I

OverviewTo provide efficient and skilled legal secretarial support services to the Claims Legal Areas of AccountabilityTypes or transcribes edits and proofs legal departments general correspondence memos reports and documents in a professional accurate and timely and types correspondence and memos as assigned or anticipated for legal and closes legal files and maintains legal filing system in an organized and accurate all meetings by scheduling dates and conference rooms preparing necessary material and notifying appropriate personnel of dates and appointment calendar and diary system for legal incoming telephone calls to the legal department in a courteous and professional manner; routes calls to appropriate personnel or takes messages as needed; greets visitors to legal department in a courteous and professional manner and announces caller to appropriate and updates data regarding litigated files in computer system including data about the nature of the claims period of litigation and attorney time spent on the independent medical examinations; arranges for obtaining medical and other evidentiary the accumulation of data and assumes responsibility for the accuracy of data recorded on various statistical reports or invoices and payments for medical records and vendors in a timely to learn adapt and implement new other duties and responsibilities as and Working StyleStrong character Alignment with company values mission and visionTrustworthy and honestDecisiveCurious and persistentPassion for innovation Willingness to learnAdaptive to changing (tolerance for ambiguity)Desire to collaborate to achieve corporate goalsStrong communicator Effective communication skills - written and oralEmpathetic listener and open-mindedCommitment to accountabilityGood interpersonal skills with team approach to job performanceTechnical Minimum typing speed of 50 words per minuteAbility to transcribe dictated material quickly and accuratelyComputer literate with working knowledge of word processing Windows Microsoft Word and ExcelEducation and ExperienceHigh School Diploma requiredMinimum two years experience as a legal secretary preferably in an insurance defense setting