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Legal Assistant

• Provide legal administrative support to the Chief Legal Officer, Managing Attorney, and Attorneys
• Prepare draft legal documents and correspondence
• File documents and pleadings with courts
• Draft, review, edit, and prepare routine correspondence and signature documents for attorneys
• Monitor legal correspondence and respond to inquiries from internal and external stakeholders
• Use judgment in receiving, responding to, and referring stakeholder emails
• Track project deadlines and escalate issues as needed
• Prepare written office procedures
• Perform scheduling, copying, scanning, assembling, retrieving, indexing, and purging of files
• Maintain spreadsheets and databases and prepare and distribute mailings
• Identify and maintain processes to improve legal-team efficiency
• Enter legal data points, KPIs, and deadlines into established databases and tracking systems
• Maintain and organize the legal team’s physical and electronic file systems