Legal Secretary

Min 3 yrs required

Full-time

No

# Legal Secretary

## Overview
Wilson Elser's Dallas Texas office is looking for a Legal Secretary to join their team and gain fast-paced professional experience with a national law firm. Wilson Elser is a full-service and leading defense litigation law firm who faithfully serves their clients across 42 offices in the United States and one in London.

## Qualifications
- Must have
- Prior experience with litigation procedures and processes, e-filing, and creating table of authorities a plus
- Familiarity with State and Federal court procedures and rules
- Experience with filing briefs (Table of Contents and Table of Authorities)
- Must be a team player
- Communicates with respect and professionalism
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to integrate into a fast-paced environment
- Able to prioritize and multitask / organize yourself to be able to concurrently manage several tasks
- Able to work independently / self-motivated
- Must know Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel)
- Experience using a Document management System a must – familiarity with iManage a plus
- Strong written and verbal communication skills

## Responsibilities
- Prepare legal filings: format documents, pull exhibits, proofread and redact documents
- Draft and send routine correspondence
- Prepare court forms such as notices, motions, and other simple pleadings
- E-file court filings in both State and Federal Court
- Open new matters and process matters for closing
- Process Client intakes and follow up as needed
- Document management and organization, ensuring documents are properly saved to Document Management System
- Become familiar with court rules and agency rules and filing procedures and client guidelines
- Calendaring: maintain attorney calendars and ensure all dates/deadlines, conferences, and depositions are calendared
- Manage expense reimbursements
- Retrieve court decisions from Westlaw
- Obtain final orders from court websites or document portals and follow up as needed
- Create, maintain and update contact sheets/Case Lists as requested
- Manage bills for third party vendors, process check requests and follow up as needed

## Benefits
- Excellent Benefits
- Generous PTO plan
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
- Corporate Discount Plans

## Salary
Salary will be commensurate with experience.

## Application
If you are interested in joining the Wilson Elser team, please send your credentials to and put “Dallas Texas Legal Secretary” in the subject line. Wilson Elser is a firm that focuses their commitment to both their clients and the individual. They strive to create an equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex, disability, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by the law.

Excellent Benefits, Generous PTO plan, Excellent growth and advancement opportunities, Corporate Discount Plans

Familiarity with State and Federal court procedures and rules, Experience with filing briefs (Table of Contents and Table of Authorities), Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel), Document management System (iManage), Strong written and verbal communication skills

Send credentials to and putting "Dallas Texas Legal Secretary" in the subject line

Qualification and Experience 3+ years of experience with a defense litigation firm

Legal