Legal Assistant

• Provide and coordinate administrative and clerical support to attorneys and paralegals
• Maintain composure and discretion while supporting attorneys, clients and staff
• Partner with attorneys and maintain working relationships with clients, staff, agencies, courts and vendors
• Mentor and share information with others
• Manage complex and challenging workflow
• Invest in mentoring Administrative Secretaries and others
• Maintain attorney confidence, minimal backlog and minimal overtime
• Understand attorneys’ practices, goals, firm objectives, policies and procedures
• Identify training and development needs with the supervisor
• Contribute to firm and practice group goals by raising concerns and opportunities and proposing solutions
• Interact extensively with clients and respond to client requests
• Support client relationships by identifying service improvements and proposing solutions
• Manage client billing processes, including reviewing and editing pre-bills
• Maintain up-to-date forms and collaborate with word processing on templates
• Monitor project progress and prompt attorneys as needed
• Assign tasks to word processing, file room and other support staff and follow up on completion
• Communicate project status to team members
• Docket deadlines
• Type, proofread, compare and edit correspondence, memoranda, agreements and other legal and business documents
• Maintain attorney and client records, including email and electronic records
• Open new client and matter files
• Schedule and coordinate appointments, meetings and conference calls and maintain calendars
• Answer, screen and respond to phone calls
• Open and route mail with appropriate files and documents
• Prepare and submit expense reimbursement reports and check requests
• Make travel arrangements
• Schedule conference rooms and arrange food service and audio-visual equipment
• Assist fellow secretaries and additional attorneys as priorities dictate

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