Title: Legal Administrative Assistant
Location: Los Angeles
Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $75k-$105k, depending on experience
Our client is an AM 200 firm providing comprehensive litigation services across a variety of practice services from general commercial disputes to highly specialized regulatory and industry-focused litigation. They are looking for a Legal Administrative assistant with at least 2+ years of litigation experience to join their team.
This full-time position will be based in their Los Angeles Office, hybrid schedule requiring 3 days on-site
Essential Functions:
- Manages complex scheduling, including court appearances, depositions, mediations, arbitrations, client meetings, and conference calls. Coordinates attorneys' travel arrangements, processes reimbursements, and tracks critical deadlines.
- Handles incoming correspondence, phone calls, and visitors, ensuring proper routing and follow-ups while maintaining confidentiality and professionalism.
- Drafts, edits, and proofreads legal documents, memos, reports, and general correspondence with a strong focus on accuracy and clarity.
- Prepares pleadings, including briefs, complaints, motions, subpoenas, and summonses, using firm templates and attorney-provided information.
- Assembles motion binders, trial materials, and special working binders, coordinating multi-document filings, including state and federal e-filings.
- Organizes and maintains both physical and electronic filing systems, ensuring quick retrieval of case materials and timely archiving.
- Tracks, enters, and submits attorneys' billable hours daily while assisting with client billing and month-end reporting.
- Conducts legal research, compiles data, and prepares summaries to support attorneys in case preparation, meetings, and work projects.
- Provides high-level administrative support, ensuring seamless day-to-day operations and effective case management.