Legal Assistants directly support lawyers and may be required to supervise other legal staff, such as legal secretaries or file clerks.Legal Assistants should have computer and technical knowledge as well as strong analytical, communication and organizational skills.In some cases, law firms prefer three to five years of legal experience in a law firm or other corporate legal department.
Your responsibilities in this role
- Maintain electronic documents and files
- Administer computer database input and retrieval
- Execute word processing, filing and faxing
- Assemble documents for photocopying/scanning- Review copied documents and compare them to their originals
- Write correspondence and memorandum
- Amass documents and assemble data as directed by lawyers and paralegals
- Direct legal research and investigative tasks, including obtaining information or documents from outside parties, as directed
- Record keeping, matter management
- Seek and retrieve electronic documents from a variety of court and agency web sites- Investigating the factual evidence of a transaction or case and preparing exhibits, charts and diagrams to display information
- 2 years of relevant experience
- Drafting legal court documents, such as pleadings, motions, affidavits and subpoenas; transactional documents, such as trusts, wills, contracts and real estate leases; and closing documents
- Experience assisting lawyers in preparing for transactional closings, depositions, hearings, trials and conferences; completing many administrative tasks, including, working on individual cases or transactions
- Organizing and tracking files for important transactions or case documents, including pleadings and voluminous discovery documents; creating and maintaining a case-management database
- Legal Assistant experience desired
- Deep understanding of Local Employment Law
- Labor law experience
- Foundational knowledge in Labor Employee Relations
- Conducting routine discovery
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