About the Company - SNI has partnered with a growing Legal Firm in the Dallas area to find a Legal Secretary with Commercial Litigation experience. A successful candidate will have strong customer service and project management skills, must be able to multi-task, meet deadlines, and have strong organizational and communication skills. Successful candidates will be detail-orientated and professional.
About the Role :
- Have a basic understanding of the factual, procedural, and legal issues underpinning every case.
- Understand the deadlines for each case and manage workflow to comply with deadlines and case needs.
- Have a basic understanding of the work the attorney needs to complete in the next three to four weeks and assistance that can be provided with that work.
- Coordinate legal activities, draft legal documents, manage deadlines.
- Organize and maintain files for the litigation group, keep records up to date; retrieve information as needed.
- Digitally input and maintain information.
- Ability to work overtime, including evenings and weekends (on as as-needed basis).
- Screen all calls for attorney; take accurate messages.
- Process outgoing mail promptly; ensure all attachments and enclosures are included.
- Receive incoming mail, process, route appropriately.
- Enter attorney and paralegal time into the accounting system.