Legal Assistant

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Job Summary
Location
Newark ,NJ
Job Type
Contract
Visa
Any Valid Visa
Salary
PayRate
Qualification
BCA
Experience
2Years - 10Years
Posted
25 Jan 2025
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Job Description

Essential Duties

• Team-player who can also work independently

• Organized individual able to multi-task in fast paced environment

• Familiar with transcribing legal briefs, E-mail correspondence, letters, and confidential memorandum

• Familiar with the varying types of legal documents and able to type from rough and oral drafts

• Court E-Filings

• Comfortable answering calls, transferring and message taking in Attorney absences

• Prepares, maintains and confirms daily work calendars and schedule meetings and appointments

• Assists with travel arrangements, internal correspondence, reimbursements for attorneys, paralegals

• Reads, sorts and ensures incoming mail is timely delivered; ensures outgoing mail is processed

• Processes bills; proofs billing sheets; reviews and edits bills

• Maintain attorneys’ legal confidential and administrative files

RELATED DUTIES

• Assist other Attorneys and Legal Assistants within 3 Practice Groups

• Proactively manage contacts in Outlook and Interaction

Minimum qualifications

Training and Experience

• Three to five years of legal assistance experience. Must type a minimum of 70 words per minutes.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skill

• Comprehensive knowledge of modern legal office practices and procedures

• Considerable knowledge of legal documents preparation, legal terminology and court procedures

• Comprehensive knowledge of MS Word, MS Outlook, Excel, redline comparisons, BigHand (digital dictation)

• Considerable knowledge of effective proofreading

• Excellent oral and written communication skills


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• Interaction

• DocXtools

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• Bighand

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