Legal Assistant

  • $45,000.00 - $53,000.00/year
  • Legal Assistant for a well-respected boutique law firm located in South Tampa. This position will be responsible for working with partners and associates, engaging with clients, office/clerical duties, documenting and managing confidential information. 

    This established group of attorneys pride themselves on professionalism, quality of work, and great company culture. This legal assistant position requires experience in a professional service’s setting, preferably as a legal assistant.  This client might consider someone with relevant and recent exposure to public accounting, consulting engineering, marketing, or other professional service’s industries.  

    This position is perfect for a locally based skilled legal assistant with over 2 years’ experience, who enjoys working as a key contributor in a boutique law setting. Please see below for full details.

    Legal Assistant Responsibilities:
    • Delivers superior client service and acts as a liaison between clients and the attorneys by maintaining continual communications via email, telephone, and in person
    • Follows up with clients regarding the status of cases, appointments, billing, etc.
    • Serves an important role by handling potential clients in a confident, professional manner and with a high level of comfort
    • Works effectively in a team environment with primary attorneys and legal assistants and, at times, with other attorneys
    • Prepares routine correspondence, forms, agreements, employee handbooks, letters, and other related documents
    • Maintains attorneys’ calendars; schedules and follows up on all appointments (i.e., courts, clients, casework, and potential clients)
    • Responsible for ensuring timely filing with the courts and assisting attorneys in preparation for court appearances.
    • Maintains court schedule and other case deadlines
    • Opens organizes, maintains, and closes paper and electronic client files
    • Familiarity with process improvement and documenting standards
    • Demonstrate flexibility and creativity in solving problems
    • Perform proactively and be self-managed

    Legal Assistant Requirements:
    • Bachelor’s Degree preferred
    • 2+ years of recent and relevant experience as a legal assistant is strongly preferred.  **However, a skilled administrative assistant coming out of similar likeminded professional services industries might be considered (i.e. - public accounting, engineering, professional consulting services.
    • Experience scheduling appointments for depositions and arbitrations, managing calendars, managing expenses and receipts and creating expense reports.
    • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, legal software, dictation/transcription software, and document management software.
    • Some familiarity with employment law and its legal terminology is strongly preferred.
    • Comfortable in a small company setting working as a key contributor.
    • People skills are very important. This person must be confident, trustworthy and dependable.
    • Stable resume, local candidates only will be considered

    Legal Assistant Benefits and Compensation package:
    • Competitive base salary
    • Work-life balance, 3 weeks PTO, and Paid Holidays; abbreviated workday on Friday
    • Fully paid medical benefits for employee

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