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Beacon Hill is seeking a Litigation Legal Assistant for an onsite, temporary to permanent role with our client located Downtown Dallas. This is a full-time position, Monday-Friday, during standard business hours.

Primary Duties:

• Ideal candidate must be flexible and open to partner's direction.
• Partner is very busy - a no nonsense personality and busy desk.
• Provides administrative support to busy litigation partner and attorneys
• 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
• Maintains, organizes, and manages client files for the attorneys
• Dockets/calendars deadlines
• Organizes & sorts emails for attorneys
• Manages electronic and paper filing systems (state and federal)
• Enters attorney time into billing system
• High level of confidentiality is a must
• Handles multiple tasks simultaneously
• Works occasional overtime, as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Five plus (5+) years of litigation experience in a law firm.
• Advanced knowledge of the litigation process; rules of procedure; excellent litigation, secretarial, grammar, and proofreading skills is a must;
• NetDocs or iManage experience
• High proficiency in MS Office Suite;
• Ability to operate standard office equipment;
• Experience with electronic court filings (state and federal);
• 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

For immediate consideration, please submit your most updated resume in Word document format. We look forward to working with you!

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