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Beacon Hill Legal is seeking a Litigation Legal Secretary for our client a top tier Texas litigation firm. This position supports a busy equity partner. The Secretary must have 10+ years of experience and will provide secretarial support to 4+ attorneys for our Insurance Litigation and Coverage Section.
Job Duties:
- Provides administrative support to litigation attorneys in the practice of law.
- Assists in preparing for hearings, trials, mediations, arbitrations, depositions, meetings, etc. in a fast-paced, high-volume litigation practice.
- Types pleadings, discovery, briefs, status reports, and correspondence from dictation.
- Maintains, organizes, and manages client files.
- Dockets/calendars deadlines.
- Organizes & sorts of emails for attorneys.
- Manages electronic and paper filing systems (state and federal).
- Enters attorney time into billing system.
- Assist with billing and appeals of deductions.
- Exercises discretion and maintains information of a confidential nature.
- Handles multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Assists with providing coverage when other secretaries are out of the office.
- Works occasional overtime, as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Ten plus (10+) years of recent litigation experience in a law firm. Defense litigation experience is important.
- Advanced knowledge of the litigation process; rules of procedure; excellent litigation, secretarial, grammar, and proofreading skills.
- High proficiency in MS Office Suite.
- Ability to operate standard office equipment.
- Experience with electronic court filings (state and federal).
- Familiarity with DMS (document management system), preferably iManage.
- Ability to turn constructive feedback into best practices for future use.
- Ability to communicate professionally and effectively with co-workers, clients, courts and opposing counsel and be proactive about seeking clarification of ambiguities.
- Ability to read and understand attorney mail and email.
- Typing speed of 65+ words per minute.
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