Job description
Job Details
- Location: Tampa, FL
- Salary/Payrate: $72K - $80K
- Work Environment: Onsite first 6 months, then 2 days WFH after 6 months
- Term: Full-time permanent
- Bachelor's degree: Preferred, but not required
- Referral Fee: AMS will pay $500
- Required Experience: 5+ years of litigation secretarial/assistant experience in a law firm, preferably in casualty litigation/insurance defense
Job Description
The legal assistant plays an important role in supporting legal professionals in the delivery of legal services to clients. The legal assistant is responsible for providing administrative and clerical support to multiple attorneys. Duties include drafting legal documents, managing case files, assisting with trial preparation, communicating with clients, and maintaining confidentiality of sensitive information related to cases and clients.
Essential Functions and Basic Duties
- Draft, format, prepare, proofread, and revise comprehensive legal documents.
- Review all incoming mail, faxes, and emails.
- Prepare outgoing mail for attorneys' review.
- Open new files for new matters and new clients, including running conflict searches for new cases.
- Organize and manage client files by scanning, naming, saving electronically, and destroying, when appropriate, client data in paper and electronic formats.
- Effectively and professionally communicate with attorneys, clients, opposing counsel, and adjusters by email and phone.
- Review, distribute, and electronically save daily incoming mail, legal documents, hand-deliveries, and faxes.
- Schedule and calendar depositions, hearings, mediations, inspections; calendar pre-trial conferences, and trials for assigned attorneys.
- E-filing in state and federal courts and agency filings.
- Print and circulate e-filed documents.
- Answer attorney calls and take messages; forward calls as appropriate.
- Enter, review, and release time for attorneys as directed.
- Prepare for trial by organizing documents, binders, charts, graphs, and other evidentiary exhibits under the direction of a paralegal and/or attorney.
- Assemble binders for depositions and mediations.
- Update client case lists to ensure accuracy.
- Update trial, mediation, and case lists to ensure accuracy.
- Prepare attorney expense reports.
- Make travel arrangements for attorneys.
- Process client vendor invoices.
- Review pre-bills for accuracy and distribute; send invoices to clients.
- Answer questions regarding billing, client budgets, expert invoices, client invoice appeals, etc.
- Provide coverage for other assistants while out on PTO.
- Assist with training new hires.
- Complete all other projects/duties assigned.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Team player.
- Creative problem solving.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and with flexibility to meet deadlines.
- Computer skills.
- 5+ years of extensive litigation secretarial/assistant experience.
Benefits Include
- Health insurance with firm-paid HSA contributions on select plans.
- Dental and vision insurance.
- Firm-paid life insurance and short-term disability insurance.
- Optional Aflac supplemental plans.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Paid parking.
- Included on-site gym access.
- Complimentary subscription to the Calm app.
- Access to a company-sponsored financial wellness program.