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Legal Staff in Bloomfield Hills, MI

Law Firm Staff Feb 11,2016 Location USA Bloomfield Hills MI
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Law Firm

Legal Staff

Litigation - Foreclosure (Lender-side)

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Law Firm Staff brings you up to date and high quality legal staff openings in law firms and in-house legal departments of business organizations. In addition, we help solo attorneys hire experienced personnel from the legal industry. We not only have the best law firm staff positions, but we also have the most. Healthcare Legal Secretary Responsibilities: Prioritizes assignments and prepares often sensitive and detailed correspondence. Composes routine correspondence and/or recurring reports. Prepares other correspondence, reports, legal documents, presentations and the like using advanced knowledge and skills with word processing and other software programs. Proofreads and edits text for grammatical and typographical errors, and occasionally for content and submits same to attorneys or paralegals for approval. May establish filing systems and is responsible for maintaining legal files; classifies, sorts and files correspondence, retrieves records and other documents according to appropriate paper and/or electronic procedures. Receives and screens internal/external visitors and telephone calls, and notifies appropriate personnel or records messages. Responds to detailed inquiries concerning departmental activities and operations requiring in-depth knowledge of department and/or legal procedures. Interacts with management, other departments, and varied external personnel. May maintain billing records and/or prepare bills, according to established procedures. With general direction, regularly conducts or coordinates special legal projects for assigned attorneys. Schedules appointments, makes travel or meeting arrangements and maintains business calendars. May travel to provide secretarial support at meetings and conferences. Conducts limited research related to report preparation and routinely generates designated regular reports. Operates standard office machines and equipment such as calculators, photocopiers, facsimiles and dictation transcription equipment. May include acting as a resource to others in the area. Performs related general office duties such as monitoring and ordering standard office supplies, and priority collating, assembling and distributing documents. May assign and/or check work of lower-classified secretarial or clerical employees.

Requirements: High school diploma or equivalent. 3-5 years (prior and/or on-the-job) progressively more responsible related work experience necessary in order to gain knowledge of secretarial and office procedures; use and operation of standard office equipment; and to coordinate work flow within the office. Intermediate to advanced computer skills in order to use multiple software programs (including word processing, email/calendaring, spreadsheet, data base and graphics). May require specialized terminology skills. Ability to read and write in order to proof and edit routine correspondence, reports, tables and the like for spelling, typographical errors, and sentence structure as well as draft routine correspondence, perform noncomplex arithmetic calculations, and organize and maintain record keeping and filing systems at a level normally acquired through completion of one to two years post high school secretarial training. Moderate levels of communication skills requiring social sensitivity and in-depth knowledge of department procedures in order to communicate effectively with staff and management within and outside the department and external contacts including vendors. Problem solving skills necessary in order to gather and interpret information to resolve moderately complex problem situations. Standard methods and procedures are available. Ability to concentrate and pay close attention to detail. Must pass an initial skills test at 75+% and typing test at 65 wpm.

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