Legal Staff Legal Secretary in Cerritos, CA

Law Firm

Cerritos, CA

Legal Staff Legal Secretary in Cerritos, CA

Legal Staff

No

Job Title: Legal Secretary - Litigation

Job Responsibilities:
- Prepares and revises legal documents, correspondence, memoranda, and emails from written form and transcription.
- Assembles documents and exhibits for court filings and recordings, hearings, arbitrations, mediations, depositions, or other engagements.
- Proofreads prepared materials to ensure documents are free from typographical and grammatical errors and are formatted according to law firm standards.
- Reads, sorts, and prints incoming mail and emails and distributes them as appropriate.
- Schedules appointments and meetings for attorneys.
- Manages and maintains a calendar for deadlines; ensures important dates are recorded on the master calendar.
- Proficiently utilizes computer and transcription equipment to produce legal documents, correspondence, memoranda, and emails.

Other duties as needed:
- Arranges travel for attorneys, including hotel, airline, and transportation.
- Assists in the preparation of marketing materials such as pitch folders, attorney biographies, and PowerPoint presentations.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience Information:
- High School Diploma required.
- Prior litigation legal secretary experience is necessary.
- Ability to type, read, and write to proofread and perform initial input and revisions to legal documents, correspondence, memoranda, and email.
- Must have knowledge of MS Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Knowledge of document management systems such as IManage.
- Ability to type 70 words per minute.
- Ability to organize and prioritize workflow for multiple attorneys.
- Interpersonal skills to communicate verbally, in writing, and by tele,000 Annually