Role: Legal Assistant
Status: Perm roles
Start: ASAP
Location: 100 % Onsite - NYC
Pay Rate: $20-25/hour - based on experience/qualifications
Multiple Openings
Details of the role
- Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Settlements, Environmental, and Liens departments
- Perm Roles
- Full-time hours (M-F, 35 to 40 hours a week).
- 100% onsite - NYC
- Pay Rate - $20-25/hour - based on experience/qualifications
- Benefits: Medical, 401K, Paid Time Off
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; provide 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
- Bachelor's degree is preferred, and recent graduates are encouraged to apply.
- 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.