Legal Administrative Assistant

Job Description

Employment Type: Temporary/Contract Monday – Friday: 9am-5:30pm ET Onsite: New York, NY Duration: 3-6 months (w/ Temp-to-Hire potential) Start Date: Immediately Pay: $45 hourly

Professional Experience

Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio Company, is one of the largest and fastest growing global legal services businesses, and as a ‘new law’ pioneer, we continue to lead the market we’ve created.

With a global team of over 600 attorneys and consultants working across our secondments, legal advisory services, and legal operations & tech solutions, we want you to be a part of our exciting journey!

Who are we looking for?

We have a strong pipeline of exciting and career-enhancing full-time and part-time assignments across the Biotech, Marketing, Fintech, Consumer Goods, Pharma and Technology sectors, and we're interested in hearing from (2) Legal Administrative Assistants to join us and commence their LOD journey.

To join us, you will:

Need to have excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong interpersonal skills to interact with team members, lawyers, clients and other firm departments on a daily basis.

Be advanced in Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and the ability to learn firm-specific programs and software applications as required.

Have the ability to perform advanced document formatting, conversions and redlining.

Possesses strong practice area knowledge with the ability to understand legal terminology and documentation.

Need to have project management skills to appropriately accomplish tasks and meet deadlines.

Excellent time management, organizational and problem-solving skills.

Have solid document production skills, attention to detail, and ability to proofread for accuracy and content of work.

Be able to remain current in technical skills and practice area knowledge by taking offered online courses and attending organized meetings and training.

Key Responsibilities for this role:

You will assist various department partners, as needed, and assist with overflow work for these departments on an as needed basis.

You will perform the duties and responsibilities associated with numerous matters, including responsibilities associated with client billing, attorney travel, client interface, scheduling meetings and calls (Teams and Zoom), expense reports, and maintaining calendars.

You will be asked to prepare Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, and provide back-up assistance as part of a client service team, as well as covering for client service team members when they are out of the office.

No assignment or day is ever the same. Our clients are large national and international companies. This is a great opportunity to diversify your experience and bolster your CV through a career with LOD. These assignments are of varied durations, ranging anywhere from 3-6 months initially or long term.

What sets us apart?

People join us for a range of reasons - the life of a legal professional like no other.

CV-enhancing work with global brands: We provide our people with varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with world-class global brands, allowing them to take control of their career and diversify their experience across a range of industries.

No limits: We’ve helped open doors, break glass ceilings, facilitate the transition from private practice to in-house, and develop career pathways to become a GC. Whatever direction you want to take your career, we can help you get there.

You call the shots: We take work-life balance pretty seriously. You can work on-site with our clients or remotely, undertake full-time or part-time assignments, or assignments that are for set months of a year – it's your choice!

You’re never on your own: Throughout your LOD career, you’ll become part of a community. You’ll be supported by your LOD colleagues and our HQ team, LOD social events, and receive training opportunities to assist in your ongoing growth and development.

Our Ways Of Working help shape who we are and what we do: we deliver, we are creative, we are inclusive, we care & collaborate, and we are trusted.

We’re global: LOD can provide you with local, interstate and international working opportunities.

LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities to join us so we can do great things together.Company 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.