Required Education, Knowledge, and Experience
High School Diploma. College Degree preferred.
3- 5 years of legal secretarial experience.
Accurate typing speed of 65+ wpm.
Representative Key Responsibilities
Responsibility for ensuring the efficient daily administrative operations of the assigned legal team.
Communicate with attorneys and assist with balancing the team’s workload to ensure completion of projects within established time frames and quality standards.
Mastery of Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and willingness to master other programs, as required. Ability to send documents by file-share (e.g., Litera) and familiarity with Microsoft Teams, Zoom and WebEx.
Ability to manage matter workspaces, find current and archived materials, and adhere to established naming conventions using the firm’s document management system, NetDocuments.
Provide high level administrative support to assigned legal team, including assistance with client billing, expense reimbursements, vendor invoice processing, and the coordination of incoming and outgoing mail and overnight deliveries.
Maintaining calendars, team lists, lists of opposing counsel, schedule appointments (including depositions and hearings), reserve conference rooms and arranging conference room setups for depositions and mediations, and coordinate domestic and international travel.
Keep up to date with the policies and procedures of the varying administration agencies and courts that the attorneys practice in.
Support Firm-wide client service initiatives. Providing quality service to internal departments and external parties by interacting professionally and displaying a “can do” attitude via electronic and print correspondence, when answering telephone calls, taking and relaying messages, greeting visitors and coordinating attorney, client or other inquiries in the absence of the attorney.
Are you a legal secretary looking for a new home? Would you like to work with one of the top firms in the US? If so, R & W Group has a fantastic new opportunity! One of our favorite clients is looking for a Legal Secretary to support a regulatory group of attorneys and a senior partner performing primarily administrative work with heavy billing. You must be tech savvy. You must demonstrate good judgment, strong secretarial and communication skills, flexibility, and the ability to work well under pressure. You must have discretion, proactiveness, and the ability to manage confidential information with sound judgement are essential, along with a strong willingness to contribute as a member of a high-functioning team.
Solid compensation of $75 – 85K (depending upon experience). Great benefits including health insurance. Awesome team. Apply online or register with us at www.r-wgroup.com.
R & W Group is a full service staffing and consulting company in Washington, D.C. with a diverse client base. We specialize in placing professionals in Legal, Information Technology, Accounting & Finance, Marketing & Communications, and Administrative roles in temporary, permanent, and temporary to permanent positions. R & W Group helps clients identify sought after talent who would be a great fit for the needs of their organization. Our clients work in a variety of industries. Our clients include Law Firms, Corporations and Nonprofits from Start-Ups to Small Businesses to Fortune 50 companies. At R & W Group, we look beyond the resume to evaluate a candidate’s leadership style, personal values, and future goals to put them in the right position to succeed.