Position: Legal Assistant
Location: Columbia, MD
Responsibilities:
1. Providing support to attorneys and paralegals with extensive document management assistance, editing and proofreading documents, maintaining transactional spreadsheets, and assisting with closing logistics and binder assembly.
2. Coordinating and maintaining schedules and calendars, making travel arrangements, updating contracts, creating new business intake forms, saving and directing incoming and outgoing documents, overseeing document checklists, and organizing and maintaining files.
3. Tracking attorney expenses and ensuring time entries comply with firm and client guidelines, and assisting with new client business proposals as needed.
Requirements:
1. A high school diploma or equivalent is required, a college degree is a plus. Experience in a law firm or busy office is a plus.
2. Candidates should be comfortable working in a large professional environment, and have working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly with Word, Excel, and Outlook.
3. Excellent technical, interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills are essential to be successful in this position.
Salary: The salary range for this position is $48k to $50k depending on experience.
Benefits: Medical, dental and vision coverage; life insurance, short and long-term disability; 401(k) retirement savings plan with a firm contribution; and a generous paid time off program. Additional benefits provided are health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts, paid parental leave; family and medical leave; employee assistance program; and a pre -tax transportation benefit.
Work Schedule: This full-time position is 5 days a week in the office, with an option to work a hybrid schedule of 4 days a week in the office after 1 year.