Legal Assistant

3-3 yrs required

Full-time

No

Salary:

This is a full-time position with a competitive salary commensurate with experience.


Krieg DeVault is looking for an experienced Legal Assistant to join their Litigation and Transactional practice. The successful candidate will be self-motivated with a hands-on, positive approach and a desire to think creatively to identify and implement proactive solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

- Manage traditional administrative needs of multiple attorneys
- Provide legal administrative support for transactional and litigation work
- Prepare highly confidential documents such as agreements, contracts, correspondence and memorandums
- Provide organizational assistance with meetings, billings, travel and maintaining calendars
- Proactively ensure legal team is prepared with necessary materials for meetings and depositions
- Provide marketing assistance by managing alerts, updates, creating PowerPoints and spreadsheets
- Demonstrate good judgment and professionalism, and exhibit flexibility and versatility to provide support
- Demonstrate strong reasoning and resolution skills
- Perform special projects as required to increase the professional effectiveness and efficiency of the legal team

Job Requirements:

- Minimum of three years of experience as a legal assistant with at least one year of litigation experience
- Minimum of a high school diploma
- Knowledge of the Federal Court ECF system and experience filing pleadings
- Knowledge of the Illinois electronic court filing system
- Mastery of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, Adobe Acrobat Professional and PowerPoint
- Able to type from dictation

Salary:

This is a full-time position with a competitive salary commensurate with experience.

H1: Become a Legal Assistant at Krieg DeVault

H2: Job Responsibilities

- Manage traditional administrative needs of multiple attorneys
- Provide legal administrative support for transactional and litigation work
- Prepare highly confidential documents such as agreements, contracts, correspondence and memorandums
- Provide organizational assistance with meetings, billings, travel and maintaining calendars
- Proactively ensure legal team is prepared with necessary materials for meetings and depositions
- Provide marketing assistance by managing alerts, updates, creating PowerPoints and spreadsheets
- Demonstrate good judgment and professionalism, and exhibit flexibility and versatility to provide support
- Demonstrate strong reasoning and resolution skills
- Perform special projects as required to increase the professional effectiveness and efficiency of the legal team

H2: Job Requirements

- Minimum of three years of experience as a legal assistant with at least one year of litigation experience
- Minimum of a high school diploma
- Knowledge of the Federal Court ECF system and experience filing pleadings
- Knowledge of the Illinois electronic court filing system
- Mastery of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, Adobe Acrobat Professional and PowerPoint
- Able to type from dictation

H2: Salary

This is a full-time position with a competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Law Firm is looking for an experienced Legal Assistant to join their Litigation and Transactional practice. The successful candidate will be self-motivated with a hands-on, positive approach and a desire to think creatively to identify and implement proactive solutions.

The Legal Assistant will work with other talented individuals who share a passion for doing great work in the best interest of our clients. This position provides support in a very fast paced, always changing environment. The successful candidate must demonstrate good judgment and professionalism, and exhibit flexibility and versatility to provide support.

Responsibilities of the Legal Assistant include:

- Manage traditional administrative needs of multiple attorneys
- Provide legal administrative support for transactional and litigation work
- Prepare highly confidential documents such as agreements, contracts, correspondence and memorandums
- Provide organizational assistance with meetings, billings, travel and maintaining calendars
- Proactively ensure legal team is prepared with necessary materials for meetings and depositions
- Provide marketing assistance by managing alerts, updates, creating PowerPoints and spreadsheets
- Demonstrate strong reasoning and resolution skills
- Perform special projects as required to increase the professional effectiveness and efficiency of the legal team

Requirements of the Legal Assistant include:

- Minimum of three years of experience as a legal assistant with at least one year of litigation experience
- Minimum of a high school diploma
- Knowledge of the Federal Court ECF system and experience filing pleadings
- Knowledge of the Illinois electronic court filing system
- Mastery of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, Adobe Acrobat Professional and PowerPoint
- Able to type from dictation

This is a full-time position with a competitive salary commensurate with experience.



Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join the Litigation and Transactional practice of a law firm? Krieg DeVault is looking for an experienced Legal Assistant to join their team and provide support in a fast-paced, ever changing environment.

As a Legal Assistant, you will be responsible for managing the traditional administrative needs of multiple attorneys, providing legal administrative support for transactional and litigation work, preparing highly confidential documents such as agreements, contracts, correspondence and memorandums, providing organizational assistance with meetings, billings, travel and

High school diploma

essential job duties:

manage traditional administrative needs of multiple attorneys;
provide legal administrative support for transactional and litigation work;
provide litigation support through court filings, managing case files, preparing legal documents;
prepare highly confidential documents such as agreements, contracts, correspondence, memoranda communications to clients;
provide organizational assistance with meetings, billings, travel and maintaining calendars;
proactively ensure legal team is prepared with necessary materials for meetings and depositions;
provide marketing assistance by managing alerts, updates, creating powerpoints and spreadsheets;
demonstrate good judgment and professionalism, and exhibit flexibility and versatility to provide support;
demonstrate strong reasoning and resolution skills;
perform special projects as required to increase the professional effectiveness and efficiency of the legal team;


minimum requirements:

minimum of three years of experience as a legal assistant with at least one year of litigation experience;
minimum of a high school diploma;
knowledge of the federal court ecf system and experience filing pleadings;
knowledge of the illinois electronic court filing system;
mastery of microsoft word – including creating and manipulating styles, using keyboard shortcuts, auto-numbering paragraphs, hyperlinking to other documents, creating tables of contents, tables of authorities, footnotes, and tables;
mastery of microsoft outlook, including managing multiple attorney calendars;
experience with a server-based document management system - i-manage/file site would be a plus;
significant experience with microsoft excel – including knowing how to sum a column of numbers, hide and display columns and rows, do custom sorts and filters, and average a column of numbers;
significant experience with adobe acrobat professional – including the ability to rearrange pages, link to other pdf's and websites, manage passwords/security, insert pages, create signature stamps, add footers and headers, create bookmarks, and combine several pdfs into a single portfolio;
significant experience with microsoft powerpoint – including inserting pictures and video, creating templates, rearranging slides;
able to type from dictation

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