Patterson Real Bird & Rasmussen, LLP is located in beautiful Boulder County, Colorado. Nestled near trails, parks and lakes, our Colorado office is in Louisville, Colorado. We are a fast-paced law firm with offices in Colorado, Washington D.C., and North Dakota serving American Indian tribes, tribal entities and individual tribal members across the United States.
We are looking for a Legal Assistant to join our amazing team of legal professionals. The ideal candidate must have at least 5 years of litigation experience who can multi-task and is willing to learn and work together as a team to best serve our clients. Strong organizational skills, time management, and attention to detail are a must for a candidate to be successful in this role.
Overall Responsibility:
Support and assist assigned attorneys and support and assist other team members as needed, including work on complex litigation and appeals.
Responsibilities include:
· Legal assistants work on complex litigation cases in tribal, federal, and state trial and appellate courts.
· Ability to work under tight deadlines and prioritize responsibilities.
· Excellent proofreading skills.
· Skilled in legal writing with ability to independently prepare initial drafts of discovery requests and responses, declarations, various motions, and other commonly used documents and pleadings.
· Compile and organize digital files, mediation binders, and trial notebooks and exhibits.
· Review court rules in numerous courts to determine filing deadlines and court-specific formatting and filing requirements.
· File and serve pleadings, motions, and other documents with tribal, federal and state trial and appellate courts.
· Management of calendar and litigation deadlines in accordance with various jurisdictional Rules.
· Document management and coordination of documents for production as well as document review, redaction, organization, and summarization for purposes of discovery and depositions.
· Communicate with courts, clients, witnesses, experts, and/or opposing counsel as needed.
· Make travel arrangements and meeting plans.
· Expense reimbursements.
· Maintain attorney calendars, schedules and billing entries.
· Perform several other similar or related duties which may not be specifically included within this position description, but which are consistent with the general level of the responsibilities described.
Qualifications include:
- 5+ years litigation experience in a law firm.
- Bachelor’s Degree, Paralegal Certification or relevant work experience.
- Attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills; ability and willingness to interact and communicate effectively with a variety of personalities.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong planning and organizational skills.
- Ability to multitask and prioritize with minimal oversight.
- Flexible, good judgment, discretion, and a strong work ethic.
- Team player.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe, NetDocuments - Clio software experience is a plus.
We offer competitive compensation commensurate with experience with benefits including health insurance, dental, vision, 401k contributions, and a comfortable work environment.
Work Location:
In-Person
Work Hours:
8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. MST, M-F
OUR MISSION
Patterson Real Bird & Rasmussen LLP is a majority native-owned law firm. As tribal advocates, there could be no greater honor or privilege than having the opportunity to directly serve tribes in promoting economic development, addressing pressing infrastructure issues, protecting tribal water rights, and advancing the sovereignty and jurisdiction of tribal nations.
Patterson Real Bird & Rasmussen LLP is dedicated to the representation of American Indian tribes, tribal entities, and individual Indians across the United States. Our mission is to provide superior legal services specifically tailored to meet the needs of our clients — while also honoring the sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and self-governance of those clients.
OUR WORK
We serve as General Counsel and Special Counsel to Indian tribal governments and their enterprises to implement their laws, regulations, policies and priorities for their tribes and members. We work as true partners with every level of tribal governments and their staff to effectuate a plan for the delivery of legal services that is appropriate to meet the challenges and demands of the client.
We also work to prevent attacks on tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction, and ensure that the Federal government upholds its treaty and trust responsibilities to Indian tribes. We resolve issues on the local level, in collaboration with national tribal organizations and through advocacy with law makers in Washington, D.C.
CAREERS
If you are pursuing a career in the legal field and have an interest in federal Indian law, consider joining our team at Native Law Group. With offices in Louisville, Colorado, Fort Yates, North Dakota and Washington, D.C., our firm is dedicated to the representation of American Indian tribes, tribal entities, and individual Indians across the United States.
Being part of Native Law Group means you also are part of a powerful nationwide effort to advance the causes of tribal sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and self-governance for the benefit of Tribal Nations.