You will thrive in this role if you are trying to get your foot through the door of the legal industry and gain more experience as a Legal Administrator. Robert Half is working with a burgeoning company to find an organized, productive and innovative Legal Administrator. This Legal Administrator role will be located in the Baytown, Texas region. This role's duties will require close attention to detail and effective analytical skills.

How you will make an impact

• Orders and maintains legal office supplies which includes determining needs, sorting supplies when received, and preparing check requests for various purchases/payments.
• Schedules appointments and various seminars/training, including preparation of all travel reports for all attorneys, and maintains a calendar for City Attorney. Keeps track of CLE earned for all attorneys from seminars/training they attend. Renews the yearly dues of the various associations of which the attorneys are members, including district courts and appellate court.
• Answers telephone; receives, opens, sorts, and distributes daily mail which includes maintaining law library (new books, pocket parts, pamphlets) and maintaining book index on computer for quick reference as to invoice numbers and charges for books received. Determines invoices to pay for the Legal Department’s library and requests checks for such payments. Receives all monthly expenditures from the Finance Department and maintains record-keeping system for monthly review.
• Provides timekeeper duties for the Department on a daily basis by calendaring all employee absences and inputting time on a bi-weekly basis for payroll purposes. Attends all meetings and becomes knowledgeable of the Executime timekeeping software.
• Prepares various contracts, deeds, easements, agreements, utility lawsuits, claim letters, interoffice memorandums, and correspondence for City Attorney. Maintains list of all Industrial District Agreements; provides such list to the City’s Finance and Engineering Departments; calendars and renews the agreements when they become due and prepares the agreements for new companies. Communicates with Company officials/attorneys to finalize the Industrial District Agreements. (This duty would not be preparing contracts, deeds, etc. from scratch. There are many premade templates that are used and then it is reviewed by our Paralegal).