Role: Legal Assistant
Status: Perm
Duration: Ongoing
Hours: Mon-Fri, 35 to 40 hours per week
Start Date: ASAP
Location: 100% Onsite - NYC
Pay rate - $23-$25/hour
This is an entry-level, junior role; recent grads interested in gaining law firm experience should apply.
Project Overview: The Legal Assistant will assist the attorney(s) by providing clerical and research support services including document preparation and review; research, and file organization.
Responsibilities And Duties
- Speaks with attorneys, clients, and other professionals to discuss assigned cases or projects.
- Drafts legal documents including routine pleadings and motions, affidavits, and interrogatories; files motions and pleadings according to judicial procedures.
- Researches and analyzes statutes, regulations, legal articles, judicial decisions, and other legal sources; provides written analysis to attorneys.
- Interviews clients and witnesses and prepares summaries of their statements.
- Prepare, organize, store, and retrieve case files, which may include evidence, exhibits, depositions, pleadings, exhibits, and other items.
- Develops and maintains records on specific cases.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- A bachelor s degree is preferred
- Understanding legal language and principles, research methods, court pleadings and processes, and other related matters is a plus.
- Adept at learning and using legal software.
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, and to exercise discretion and good judgment.