Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Legal Assistant

• Type, proofread, format and edit correspondence, pleadings, memorandums, agreements and other legal documents under time-sensitive deadlines.
• Some pleading drafting.
• Conversion of both paper and electronic files to pdf format
• Heavy court filings including serving pleadings with the court and on opposing and associated counsel, at state and federal level and in many different venues
• Open new client and new matter files
• Maintain attorney and client files, both paper and electronic formats.
• Maintain email and electronic files
• Organize and maintain binders for trial, working papers, and business development purposes
• Schedule appointments, depositions, meetings; maintain calendars; make travel arrangements; set up conference calls
• Track litigation deadlines, provide deadlines to docketing and confirm deadlines are docketed correctly
• Answer, screen and respond to phone calls
• Open and route mail and email, attaching files and documents
• Enter attorney time into time-keeping program
• Maintain and track CLE records for attorneys
• Prepare and submit expense/reimbursement reports
• Assist fellow secretaries and additional attorneys as needed