What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Assistant Paralegal position at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP?
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP is seeking a Legal Assistant/Paralegal for the Albany office. BSF employees have the opportunity to work on high-profile, cutting-edge matters alongside leading lawyers. The ideal candidate will be interested or experienced in the legal field, specifically in litigation. The candidate needs to be comfortable working in fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and proofread legal documents.
- Conducting legal and factual research.
- Electronic document review.
- Manage electronic documents for easy retrieval.
- Compose correspondence, memoranda, and drafts of routine documents for attorney’s review.
- Maintain client and administrative files in accordance with Firm procedures – maintain current lists of files, account numbers, client names/addresses and other information as required.
- Preserve and protect the confidences and privileged communications of all clients.
- Coordinate administrative support for trials, arbitrations or client meetings.
- Contributes to a team to accomplish related results as needed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and administrative skills are required.
- Attention to detail.
- Excellent computer skills are required. This includes experience with all Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Familiarity with law, legal procedures, and protocols and/or experience as a legal assistant/paralegal are a plus.
The Firm offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP is an equal opportunity employer, which does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin or ancestry, religion, age, sex, disability, medical condition, sexual preference or orientation, marital or familial status, veteran's status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations. The Firm's policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. It is the Firm’s policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and compensate the best qualified individuals based only upon relevant factors such as experience, work quality and professional attitude.
About Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
Boies Schiller Flexner is a firm of internationally recognized trial lawyers, crisis managers, and strategic advisers known for our creative, aggressive, and efficient pursuit of successful outcomes for our clients. For more than 25 years, our attorneys have established a track record of taking on and winning complex, groundbreaking, and cross-border matters in diverse circumstances and industries. At almost 200 lawyers and with 13 offices throughout the United States and in London and Italy, BSF has earned a reputation as one of the world’s preeminent law firms.
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Salary : $50,000 - $55,000