Legal Assistant – 2-5+
O'Hagan Meyer
Legal Secretary
Latham & Watkins
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Menlo Park • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $85,000 - $100,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Directly assisting an assigned group of local attorneys in addition to providing global team support with a variety of administrative responsibilities
- Daily time entry, expense reimbursement, calendaring and scheduling, managing/editing documents, and 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
- 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
- Professional communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with attorneys, clients, vendors, and staff throughout the firm
- Initiative to work both independently and in a team environment with a customer service focus
- Ability to multi-task and adapt to continuously evolving technology platforms
Benefits
- Healthcare, life and disability insurance
- A generous 401k plan
- At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
time entryexpense reimbursementcalendaringschedulingdocument managementtravel arrangementsinvoice generationediting
Soft skills
professional communicationinitiativeindependenceteamworkcustomer service focusmulti-taskingadaptability
