Job Title: Legal Support Specialist - Transactional
Job Responsibilities:
The Legal Support Specialist provides high-level support to a team of attorneys, focusing on business development, managing day-to-day administrative and strategic initiatives, workflow management, and preparation of client reports and documents. Key responsibilities include:
- Coordinating the creation, editing, proofreading, and processing of legal documents, such as correspondence, memoranda, closing documents, pleadings, or other practice-specific documents.
- Maintaining legal files, both paper and electronic, organizing and filing documents in designated order.
- Updating case information, scanning, and organizing legal files.
- Managing document deliveries and tracking final executed documentation.
- Receiving and evaluating telephone calls for supported attorneys, fielding calls, and conveying messages as necessary. Communicating with clients, opposing counsel, courts, and liaisons.
- Collaborating and working with Administrative Support Coordinators, Paralegals, and other legal support team members where applicable.
- Attending team strategy meetings.
- Understanding firm available resources and leveraging the most effective resource for desired results.
- Assisting with overflow work and other special projects as assigned.
Education and Experience Information:
- A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
- A minimum of 10 years of experience within a law firm or other professional organization is required.
- Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, or agency rules of the assigned practice group/department (., State and Federal court filing, including e-filings) is necessary.
- Experience with e-filing is required.
- Proficiency with Windows-based software and Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook is required.
- Working knowledge of iManage and Concur is preferred.
Salary Information:
The expected pay range for this position is per hour. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience, location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. Full-time employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, health insurance with an optional HSA, short-term disability, long-term disability, dental insurance, vision care, life insurance, Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, 401K, vacation, sick time, and an employee assistance program. Additional voluntary programs include voluntary accident insurance, voluntary life, voluntary disability, voluntary long-term care, voluntary critical illness and cancer insurance, and pet insurance. Commuter and Transit programs may also be available in certain markets.
The law firm is an EEO employer with an inclusive workplace committed to merit-based consideration and review without regard to an individual’s race, sex, or other protected characteristics and to the principles of non-discrimination on any protected basis.
