Dentons

Legal Administrative Assistant

Dentons

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Houston • Texas • United States

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About the role

  • Responsible for document preparation, editing, file maintenance and, client billing
  • Work with timekeepers, input time entry, file electronic court filings, pleadings, and process mail
  • Client contact in person and over the phone
  • Travel arrangements and reimbursements
  • Handles administrative confidential/sensitive firm and/or client information
  • These duties may be ongoing or ad-hoc in nature
  • Other duties as may be assigned to fully meet the requirements for this position

Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years’ Litigation secretarial experience in a mid to large sized law firm
  • Must be proficient in legal secretarial and administrative tasks including, but not limited to, document preparation, heavy transcription from dictation, filing, time entry, expenses, telephone contact, travel arrangements, and calendar maintenance
  • Must be familiar with state and federal court rules
  • Ability to support attorneys across practice groups, as well as multiple attorney assignments at one time
  • Exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to prioritize, and work independently
  • Ability to work in a high-volume environment
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills and excellent client service
  • Must be proficient in MS Word, Outlook (including utilization of styles and pleading to format documents), Excel, and PowerPoint; have the ability to learn and quickly become proficient in new computer software programs
  • Must exhibit strong typing skills, including transcription from dictation
  • Excellent written and oral communication and solid organizational skills
  • Must be detail-oriented, able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, have the ability to prioritize incoming/outgoing tasks, and work effectively independently and within a team
  • Availability for overtime is required
Benefits
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • 401k
  • profit sharing
  • short-term/long-term disability
  • life insurance
  • tuition reimbursement
  • paid time off
  • paid holidays
  • discretionary bonuses
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
organizational skillsattention to detailability to prioritizework independentlyinterpersonal skillscommunication skillsclient serviceability to handle multiple tasksability to work in a high-volume environmentteamwork