Legal Administrative Assistant (Bankruptcy)

Job Description

Legal Administrative Assistant – Bankruptcy

The ideal candidate will be responsible for...

Providing comprehensive administrative support to assigned legal staff to include prioritizing assignments and preparing sensitive and detailed correspondence, such as responses to requests for information or regularly recurring reports

Prepares routine, as well as non-routine, correspondence, legal documents, forms, presentations, and the like using advanced knowledge and skills with word processing related and other software programs; efficiently proofreads and edits text for grammatical and typographical errors, and occasionally for content.

Professionally answering, screening, placing calls, and recording and communicating messages according to appropriate procedures

Scheduling appointments, making travel and/or meeting arrangements, and maintaining business calendars as instructed

Effectively establishing and maintaining well organized files, while managing the integrity of original client documents

Co-ordinating with billing attorneys on all monthly pre-bills and necessary revisions

Preparing bills for mailing, maintaining billing records, and entering attorney time

The successful candidate will demonstrate...

A minimum of 2 years of related work experience supporting a legal practice

Prior experience working within a Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights or transactional practice group is preferred.

Advanced use of MS Word and Outlook as well as an ability to quickly learn other applications

Proficiency in the use of document management systems (iManage/Filesite preferred)

Ability to efficiently proof and edit (using edit marks) non-routine correspondence, reports and tables for typographical errors and sentence structure

High level of communication skills requiring social sensitivity and willingness to gain extensive knowledge of department procedures in order to communicate effectively with staff, management, attorneys, and clientsCompany Description

Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio company, is a global leader in legal staffing, eDiscovery, risk management, and legal consulting services. The company supports multinational law firms and corporations by providing identifying and sourcing talented individuals for staffing needs, using innovative software, combining deep legal and regulatory industry expertise and excellent client service.