Job Description
Job Description
Legal Assistant
The candidate will be responsible for collaborating closely and provide legal support to attorneys, paralegals, and other support team members.
Responsibilities
• Prepare and submit client/matter opening forms.
• Process conflict checks and prepare engagement letters.
• Create closing binders using Litera and save on PDF and paper if requested.
• Type, proofread, format, and edit correspondence, memoranda, agreements, and other legal documents under time-sensitive deadlines.
• Scan, save, and file documents from clients, other external sources, and internal sources into iManage.
• Prepare expense reimbursements.
• Interact with attorneys and staff to gather necessary information to assist in the file opening process.
• Provide support to other support team members, paralegals, and attorneys.
• Work on other tasks as assigned.
• Tracking Files/matters from beginning to end.
Experience Skills
• At least three years of experience as a legal assistant or junior paralegal in the areas of commercial real estate and corporate.
• Working experience doing conflict checks and engagement letters, preparing closing binders, and organizing closing documents.
• Knowledge of legal real estate terminology.
• Working experience with Microsoft Office, PDF Docs, Adobe Pro, Litera
• Excellent Word Processing skills.
• Excellent verbal and writing communication skills.
• Proficiency in proofreading legal documents, redlining documents, saving different versions of documents into Imanage.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems.
• Detail oriented.
• Excellent organizational and follow up skills.