Legal Administrative Assistant (Bankruptcy)

Legal Administrative Assistant – Bankruptcy

The ideal candidate will be responsible for...

• Providing comprehensive administrative support to assigned legal staff to include prioritizing assignments and preparing sensitive and detailed correspondence, such as responses to requests for information or regularly recurring reports
• Prepares routine, as well as non-routine, correspondence, legal documents, forms, presentations, and the like using advanced knowledge and skills with word processing related and other software programs; efficiently proofreads and edits text for grammatical and typographical errors, and occasionally for content.
• Professionally answering, screening, placing calls, and recording and communicating messages according to appropriate procedures
• Scheduling appointments, making travel and/or meeting arrangements, and maintaining business calendars as instructed
• Effectively establishing and maintaining well organized files, while managing the integrity of original client documents
• Co-ordinating with billing attorneys on all monthly pre-bills and necessary revisions
• Preparing bills for mailing, maintaining billing records, and entering attorney time

 
The successful candidate will demonstrate...

• A minimum of 2 years of related work experience supporting a legal practice
• Prior experience working within a Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights or transactional practice group is preferred.
• Advanced use of MS Word and Outlook as well as an ability to quickly learn other applications
• Proficiency in the use of document management systems (iManage/Filesite preferred)
• Ability to efficiently proof and edit (using edit marks) non-routine correspondence, reports and tables for typographical errors and sentence structure
• High level of communication skills requiring social sensitivity and willingness to gain extensive knowledge of department procedures in order to communicate effectively with staff, management, attorneys, and clients