Legal Assistant

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Job ID#: 25543

Growing Galleria Firm is looking to add a Legal Assistant to the team.  This position will be supporting 2 Partners and 2 Associates 

Job Duties Include

• Provide excellent service to internal and external customers.
• Prepare routine correspondence, memoranda and legal documents including but not limited to pleadings notebooks, indexes, and exhibits.
• Anticipates the needs of assigned attorneys in order to promote timekeeper efficiencies (i.e., drafts correspondence, prepares shell pleading and discovery documents in advance).
• Accurately proofreads all documents to ensure accuracy and completeness prior to distribution or filing..
• Establish and maintain appropriate files and records.
• Maintain control files of matters in progress and follows up to ensure that court ordered actions are competed.
• Update contact records in Outlook and firm databases.
• Request pre-bills and statements for billing purposes and prepares statements for signatures and send out.
• Work with Client Accounts on collection efforts.
• Routinely review and follow-up on client deadlines and calendar appointments.
• Coordinates arrangements for meetings (i.e., depositions, mediations, interviews, etc.) and attorney travel.
• Assist with completing and tracking CLE compliance, presentations, and training programs, and organizing all other non-billable activities..
• Must have the ability to master skills specific to the assigned practice group including such tasks as correspondence, spreadsheets, minutes, reports, and other documents.
• Provide assistance to legal and non-legal personnel as requested.

Education:

• High School Diploma; Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Experience:

• Prior experience as a legal assistant required; Commercial Litigation experience strongly preferred.

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