Legal Assistant
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Cleveland • Ohio • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $63,000 - $70,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Perform a variety of secretarial duties for assigned attorneys according to established policies and procedures
- Delegate attorney work to appropriate departments
- Prepare practice-specific documents, paper court filings and e-filings, and update electronic pleading/correspondence/closing folders
- Screen telephone calls and take messages for attorneys when requested
- Receive clients and visitors
- Maintain good public relations with clients
- Observe confidentiality of attorney-client relationship
- Read, sort and date incoming mail when requested
- Ensure that outgoing mail is delivered timely and specify types of delivery
- Schedule and calendar meetings and deadlines for attorneys
- Assist other legal assistants and attorneys in the practice group team as time permits and as requested by other attorneys, the Regional Office Administrator or Human Resources
- Review pro forma reports and make electronic revisions, when requested
- Open new files, request conflict of interest checks, maintain client and general files, conduct periodic review of possible storage of older files, and prepare files to be closed
- Perform other duties and tasks as assigned
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent required
- 3 - 5 years of experience in similar field required
- Previous law firm experience preferred
- Previous law firm experience in Insurance Defense Litigation and Insurance Company Billing preferred
- Excellent spelling and proofreading skills
- Intermediate Microsoft Word skills
- Typing (45+ wpm)
- Effective delegation skills
- Knowledge of court filing procedures, including electronic filing
- Working knowledge of internet navigation
- Ability to organize, prioritize and produce quality work
- Ability to effectively multi-task
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written
- Adaptable to changing demands from multiple people
- Detail and deadline oriented
- Self-motivated and flexible in order to complete assignments in a timely manner
- Strong team-working abilities
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- FSA
- life and disability coverage
- paid maternity & parental leave
- family building resources
- identity theft protection
- a 401(k) plan
- paid sick, personal and vacation time
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
court filing procedureselectronic filingMicrosoft Wordtypingproofreadingdocument preparationfile managementconflict of interest checksmail sortingreport revision
Soft skills
delegationorganizationprioritizationmulti-taskinginterpersonal communicationadaptabilityattention to detaildeadline orientationself-motivationteamwork