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Legal Assistant

Patrick Harper & Dixon Llp

Job Description

Job Description

Litigation Legal Assistant Job Description

JOB TITLE: Litigation Legal Assistant 

AREAS OF PRACTICE: Litigation

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

  • At least 2 years of legal work experience
  • Prior experience in the areas of managing case files, preparing and organizing documents, and performing e-filing in state and federal courts
  • Prior experience in drafting legal documents such as pleadings, motions, and discovery requests
  • Prior experience in litigation 
  • Excellent organizational skills
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage high-volume workloads
  • Experience calendaring litigation deadlines, scheduling depositions, mediations, and hearings
  • Excellent customer service skills and acting as a point of contact for clients
  • Efficient with Microsoft Word and Excel
  • Experience with NetDocs and TABS3
  • Experience dictation Phillips Speech Live
  • Meticulous attention to detail and ability to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines 
  • Current NC Notary Public, or willing to obtain Notary immediately after hire if not currently certified

JOB DUTIES:

  • New client intake, conflict check, and file setup
  • Schedule client meetings and hearing dates
  • Correspondence with prospective and current clients, court officials, government offices, and attorney offices, by phone, email, and mail
  • Maintain and organize paper and electronic client files, including initial setup and closure
  • Copying and scanning
  • Prepare legal documents from dictations or attorney instruction
  • Transcription
  • Scan/profile and organize documents and other information for client files (hard files and electronic files)
  • Prepare correspondence, various legal documents, and pleadings from either dictation or attorney instruction
  • Prepare closed files (scanning, closed file sheets)
  • Calendar and monitor case deadlines
  • Maintain follow-up with clients
  • Submit filings to Clerk of Court offices
  • E-record documents via Simplifile
  • E-file documents with North Carolina Secretary of State
  • Prepare real estate settlement statements using Display Soft
  • Enter time and expenses into billing software on a daily basis
  • Request checks for client costs and advances
  • Make deposits and disbursements from client trust accounts and prepare Accountings for Funds in Trust
  • Make deposits and disbursements from real estate trust account and maintain appropriate documentation
  • Submit billing statements to clients
  • Take client payments via credit card or check
  • Assist other office staff as needed with duties such as answering phones and acting as backup legal assistant for other attorneys

Vacancy posted 3 days ago
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