Job Description
Legal Executive Assistant
Our client is a leading global law firm known for advising businesses, financial institutions, and high-profile clients on complex legal matters. The firm has a strong reputation across litigation, restructuring, crisis management, technology, life sciences, and corporate advisory services, offering employees a collaborative environment with a strong commitment to professional development and employee well being.
Job Description
- Manage complex calendars, meetings, appointments, and deadlines for attorneys.
- Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements and detailed itineraries.
- Prepare, edit, format, and proofread legal correspondence, memoranda, and other documentation.
- Enter attorney time records and support legal billing and invoicing processes.
- Liaise professionally with clients and internal stakeholders.
- Handle incoming communications and ensure requests are addressed promptly.
- Maintain accurate client records and legal files.
- Assist with reporting, tracking initiatives, presentations, and special projects.
- Provide administrative support while balancing multiple priorities in a fast-paced practice environment.
The Successful Legal Executive Assistant should have:
- Previous experience as an Executive Assistant or Legal Executive Assistant within a law firm or professional services environment.
- Experience supporting senior attorneys, partners, or executives.
- Strong understanding of legal billing, timekeeping, and administrative processes.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Outstanding organizational, communication, and proofreading skills.
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and professionalism.
- Highly proactive, polished, detail-oriented, and capable of working independently.
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
What's on Offer
- Competitive salary of $70,000 - $95,000, plus overtime eligibility and discretionary bonus potential.
- Generous 27-day PTO allowance, designed to encourage employees to take meaningful time off.
- Strong work-life balance within a supportive team environment.
- Hybrid working arrangement: 5 days in office when the supported Partner is in-office, otherwise 3 days per week in the NYC office.
- Opportunity to join a prestigious legal organization and support a highly regarded Bankruptcy/Restructuring practice.
- Comprehensive benefits package and long-term career development opportunities.
Interested? Apply today.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | New York, New York |
| Job Type | Full-time |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $90,000–$100,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Website | https://www.michaelpage.ca/ |
About Company
Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.
Our business was established in Canada in 2005 when we opened our Toronto office. Our role is to work with employers and job seekers to facilitate a successful match. This can range from advising a global company on a candidate sourcing strategy to helping a job seeker find their dream job.
In Canada, we focus on recruiting for the following areas:
Banking and financial services
Digital and e-commerce
Engineering and manufacturing
Finance and accounting
Human resources
Information technology
Marketing
Oil and gas
Procurement and supply chain
Property and construction
Sales
An Established Brand
The Group has established a leading presence in many of the key markets for professional recruitment around the world and has positioned itself in certain other markets, which offer the opportunity for future growth. Within its current largest markets, Michael Page has also built a regional presence, including in the UK, France and Australia. Consequently, the Michael Page brand is among the most widely recognized brands in the professional recruitment industry.
A Market Leader
The role of a recruitment consultancy is to act as an intermediary, identifying and sourcing suitably qualified candidates on behalf of its clients. Candidates are recruited either for permanent or contract positions (typically for a fixed term) or on a temporary basis. Within the overall recruitment industry, the market for professional recruitment services is a specialist sector which has developed more recently. Michael Page is widely recognized as leading the development of this market around the world.
Learn the benefits of working with Michael Page yourself. Submit your resume or contact a Michael Page recruitment consultant today.
Skills
- Administrative Skillsunmatched
- Bankruptcyunmatched
- Billingunmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Calendar Managementunmatched
- Crisis Managementunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Executive Assistant Skills unmatched
- Legalunmatched
- Legal Support Skillsunmatched
- Litigationunmatched
- Microsoft Excelunmatched
- Microsoft Outlookunmatched
- Microsoft PowerPointunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Professional Servicesunmatched
- Proofreadingunmatched
- Record Keepingunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Travel Planningunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
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