What are the responsibilities and job description for the Litigation Secretary position at CBL legal talent?
Job Title: Legal Secretary - Litigation
Job Type: Full Time/Permanent/Onsite
Job Location: Cerritos, CA 90703
Job Description:
The essential duties are:
- Prepares and revises legal documents, correspondence, memoranda, and e-mails from written form as well as from transcription
- Assembles documents and exhibits for court filings and recordings, hearings, arbitrations, mediations, depositions or other engagements
- Proofreads prepared materials to ensure documents are free from typographical and grammatical errors and are formatted according to Firm standards
- Reads, sorts and prints incoming mail, and e-mails and distributes as appropriate
- Schedules appointments and meetings for attorneys
- Manages and maintains calendar for deadlines; ensures important dates are recorded on the master calendar
- Proficiency with utilizing computer and transcription equipment to produce legal documents, correspondence, memoranda and e-mails
Other duties as needed:
- Arranges for travel for attorneys including hotel, airline and transportation
- Assists in the preparation of marketing materials such as pitch folders, attorney biographies and PowerPoint presentations
- Performs all other duties as assigned
Qualifications/Requirements:
- High School Diploma
- Prior litigation legal secretary experience.
- Ability to type, read, and write in order to proofread and perform initial input and revisions to legal documents, correspondence, memoranda and e-mail.
- Must have knowledge of MS Office Suite which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Knowledge of document management systems such as IManage
- Ability to type 70 wpm
- Ability to organize and prioritize workflow for multiple attorneys
- Interpersonal skills to communicate verbally, in writing and by telephone in a professional manner with clients, attorneys, vendors and staff
- Ability to operate office equipment such as computer, transcription equipment, fax machine and advanced functions on photocopiers
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $80,000.00 - $92,000.00 per year
Experience:
- litigation: 5 years (Required)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $80,000 - $92,000
