Legal Assistant
Voltage Park
Legal Secretary
Latham & Watkins
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Los Angeles • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $75,000 - $90,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
ServiceNow
About the role
- Directly assist an assigned group of local attorneys and provide global team support with a variety of administrative responsibilities
- Work in a global team environment with a real-time work ticketing system (ServiceNow)
- Daily time entry and expense reimbursement
- Calendaring and scheduling
- Managing and editing documents
- Travel arrangements
- Proactively learning internal systems and processes to find innovative solutions to problems and requests
- Preserving the confidentiality of ours and our clients’ protected information
- Generating, editing, and posting client invoices
- Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains
Requirements
- Display professional communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with attorneys, clients, vendors, and staff throughout the firm
- Possess the initiative to work both independently and in a team environment with a customer service focus
- Display the ability to multi-task and adapt to continuously evolving technology platforms
- A Bachelor’s degree; a minimum of three (3) years of prior professional experience in a legal or professional services environment may be considered in lieu of a degree
- This role will be located in our Los Angeles office in Century City
Benefits
- generous total compensation package with bonuses awarded in recognition of both individual and firm performance
- Healthcare, life and disability insurance
- A generous 401k plan
- At least 11 paid holidays per year
- PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
- Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
- Professional development programs
- Employee discounts
- Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff
- Flexible working schedule eligible for hybrid and in-office presence
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
document managementtime entryexpense reimbursementcalendaringschedulinginvoice generationconfidentiality preservationproblem-solvingadministrative supportcustomer service
Soft skills
professional communicationinitiativeindependenceteamworkmulti-taskingadaptabilityinterpersonal skillsclient interactionvendor interactionstaff interaction