Legal Assistant

• Provide comprehensive support for employment litigation, including managing the discovery process, drafting responses to interrogatories, and coordinating document productions.
• Generate and maintain internal legal reports and dashboards to track matter status, litigation trends, and key performance metrics for senior legal leadership.
• Assist attorneys in responding to administrative charges filed with the EEOC and various state and local human rights agencies.
• Conduct legal research on federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations (e.g., Title VII, ADA, FMLA, FLSA).
• Draft and proofread legal documents, including settlement agreements, separation agreements, and internal legal memoranda.
• Organize and maintain employment legal files and databases, ensuring all documentation is current and compliant with company retention policies.
• Support the review and update of company-wide employment policies, employee handbooks, and training materials.
• Coordinate and schedule interviews, depositions, and meetings with internal witnesses and external counsel.
• Liaise with Human Resources and business units to gather facts and documents necessary for legal assessments and defense strategies.
• Manage legal holds and ensure proper preservation of evidence related to pending or threatened employment litigation.

Senior Legal Assistant – Employment Law

Senior Legal Assistant

• Maintains schedules and calendar for assigned attorney(s)
• Composes a variety of correspondence, pleadings and various legal forms
• Coordinates time and location of multi-party appearances, including depositions, arbitrations, mediations, Independent Medical Exams (IME’s) meetings and site inspections
• Answers telephone calls, emails and handles client inquiries
• Receives and processes incoming mail
• Contacts clients, witnesses, court reporters, interpreters, claims personnel, and others to confirm scheduled appearances as instructed by assigned attorney(s)
• Maintains a thorough knowledge and keeps up-to-date with court rules and legal deadlines

• Employ knowledge of company and legal procedures as well as principles of insurance, banking or corporate law.
• Work independently while assisting attorneys in the legal process necessary for conducting company business.
• Review, analyze and summarize issues involved incoming litigation or administrative actions.
• Determine need for file documentation, obtain proofs, and clarify facts and issues.
• Organize, assemble and interpret records and documents.
• Act as a resource person to all level of company personnel regarding corporate legal matters and departmental procedures.
• Support litigation matters and act as a general litigation assistant throughout pendency of lawsuits.
• Research medical facts when necessary.
• Type/generate pleadings and legal documents and related correspondence for assigned staff counsel, as well as memos, letters, charts.
• Schedule and record all appointment dates for attorney meetings such as depositions and court hearings and maintain appointment calendar.
• Assemble data and provide input for implementation of computerized research and litigation monitoring systems.
• Assist in preparation of a legal periodical for distribution to the Claims department.
• Provides office administration support on an as needed basis, which may include mail processing, data input, courier activities, budget administration, payment processing and notary services.
• Interacts directly with business line customers and visitors to address support needs.
• Establishes and maintains a series of files for each case or matter along with a corresponding electronic diary system.
• Advises staff or management regularly regarding items requiring attention or action.
• Initiates, completes and submits routine forms required by courts or regulatory entities.
• Contacts appropriate organizations as directed to obtain documents.
• Manages correspondence for key dates and names. Records pertinent information and files.

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Senior Legal Assistant – Employment Law

Senior Legal Assistant

Legal Assistant

Legal Assistant