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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!
