Docketing Specialist

Docketing Specialist

Job Description

Summary

Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) is a results-driven law firm with a relentless focus on client satisfaction. It is through this focus that our work has a purpose and develops into a passion. We take pride in providing our clients with the results they deserve. If you thrive in an environment where your colleagues' defining characteristics are achievement, adaptability, initiative, professionalism, and resourcefulness, the culture at JMBM will prove rewarding.

JMBM is seeking a highly qualified Docketing Specialist for the Los Angeles office. The successful candidate will have experience with calendaring, maintaining and monitoring dockets for updates, a keen attention to detail, as well as excellent organizational skills. We're also looking for a high degree of professionalism, the ability to work independently, and a collaborative mindset to thrive within our dynamic, high-paced docketing team.

Essential Duties

• Exercise strong coordination skills to enter and maintain data in the Firm's docketing and calendaring system.
• Apply your organizational skills to perform quality review of all docketing data.
• Harness your communication skills to prepare reports for legal assistants, attorneys, and the Management Committee and provide best-in-class service to assistants and attorneys.
• Employ your attention to detail to confirm dates via court websites and monitor all deadlines.
• Utilize your research skills to locate resource guides, rule codes, authorities, and numerous courts’ websites.
• Collaborate with IP to enter new trademark applications into the IP Docketing system (Pattsy Wave), maintain IP docketing data, and manage incoming inquiries from attorneys and secretaries.
• Deploy your problem-solving skillset to provide suggestions on how to improve department procedures and workflows.
• Stay informed of developments, procedures, and rules in the courts/forums where the firm practices to ensure up-to-date compliance.
• Engage with peers and other administrative teams to assist with overflow work, special projects, and miscellaneous other tasks needed to support the daily operations of the docketing function.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in litigation docketing required.
• Four-year college degree or equivalent.
• Familiarity with rules-based calendaring software required (ex. Compulaw or Milana).

Position: Non-Exempt

Location: Century City. 5 days onsite for the first week, then 5 days remote thereafter.

Salary: $75k - $95k base

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