Job Title: Legal Assistant
Location: Bloomfield Hills, MI
Salary/Payrate: $46,000-$60,000 and AWESOME benefits!!!
Work Environment: 100% ON-SITE
Term: Permanent / Fulltime
Bachelor’s degree required: No
Referral Fee:AMS will pay $500 should the person you refer gets hired
Job Description:
Our client, a leading national law firm, is seeking to hire a Legal Support Coordinator – Consumer Litigation in their Bloomfield Hills office.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provides day-to-day legal support to attorneys; primary duties include supporting the assigned products liability team and assisting with national discovery management for designated client.
- Assists with new business intake processes and data entry tasks for high volume caseload; performs conflicts checks; saves client/attorney emails, correspondence, and other legal documents in the firm’s document management system.
- Maintains case docketing schedule with discovery deadlines, trial, and other legal hearing dates; stays up to date with changing docket, updates the docket with new dates and continuances, and communicates with attorneys on scheduling-related issues.
- Creates, types, modifies, and saves correspondence, memoranda, notes, and legal documents, whether from drafts, originals, or dictation; copies and scans documents; creates/updates binders.
- May assist with attorney time entry, travel arrangements, and scheduling. Maintains list of all current billing numbers.
- As requested, may provide support for reception, the conference center and/or copy center, as duties/office needs can vary widely from day to day.
- Performs other administrative duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED
- Two years of post-high school education and related work experience required; Associate degree preferred; prior law firm/legal department experience is a plus.
- 2-3 years of litigation experience, specifically performing Discovery-related tasks, including RFPs, RFAs, FROGs, SROGs, Notices of Deposition, etc. required.
- Proficiency with entering electronically stored information (ESI) meet and confer dates in Smartsheet is highly desired.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; strong analytical, organizational and data entry skills required.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint); Typing proficiency with +55 wpm preferred; experience with NetDocs or document management systems a plus.
- Detail-oriented and possesses strong project management skills; high level of accuracy in work product required.
- Self-motivated and efficient with the ability to multi-task a high-volume workload with minimal supervision.
- Exercises independent judgment in determining priority levels of all work assigned and assures assignments are completed in a timely manner.
- Demonstrates a high degree of professionalism and confidentiality regarding firm and client matters; protects sensitive information.
- Experience operating administrative office equipment (e.g., high-speed copier, scanner, fax machine); willingness to learn new systems and processes for increasing efficiency.
- Positive attitude, ability to execute tasks in a client-centric manner and to work effectively in a team setting and with a diverse group of people at all levels of the organization.
- Ability to take direction, receive and apply feedback, and communicate work status and support needs.
- Ability to effectively follow procedures and manage competing priorities; team-player, always willing to assist others as needed.
- Ability to work independently with some level of autonomy, taking initiative to ensure performance aligns with the successful operations of the office.
- Ability to be flexible, work flexible hours when required, and respond quickly and calmly to urgent situations; occasionally working overtime, evening or weekend hours may be required.