Legal Assistant

Job Summary

A well-established legal office in downtown Shreveport is seeking a professional, organized, and detail-oriented Legal Assistant to support attorneys handling Commercial Litigation and Insurance Defense matters. This on-site Legal Assistant role is ideal for someone with prior legal office experience who enjoys managing deadlines, preparing legal documents, coordinating calendars, and supporting attorneys in a fast-paced legal environment.

This opportunity offers long-term stability, a positive team-focused culture, and the chance to work with supportive leadership that values professionalism, accuracy, client service, and collaboration. The right candidate will thrive in a structured legal setting where confidentiality, dependability, and attention to detail are essential to daily success.

Key Responsibilities

- Draft, edit, proofread, and prepare legal correspondence, attorney letters, court documents, pleadings, and case-related materials.
- Organize, file, track, and maintain confidential legal documents, recordings, physical files, and electronic case files.
- Manage attorney calendars, appointments, meetings, filing deadlines, court dates, and case-related schedules.
- Communicate professionally with clients, courts, vendors, opposing counsel, attorneys, and internal legal staff.
- Assist with billing, invoice preparation, document management, legal research, and paralegal-level support as needed.
- Answer and direct incoming calls while providing general administrative support to attorneys and legal personnel.

Compensation and Benefits

- Salary: $37,500 to $41,500 per year.
- Benefits: Benefits offered.
- Job Type: Direct Hire.
- Location: Downtown Shreveport, LA.
- Work Arrangement: On-site.

Required Qualifications and Skills

- Support attorneys with Commercial Litigation and Insurance Defense case administration.
- Prepare, proofread, organize, and maintain legal documents and correspondence.
- Manage attorney calendars, deadlines, appointments, and case schedules.
- Coordinate professional communications with clients, courts, opposing counsel, and internal legal teams.

- 3 to 5 years of relevant legal assistant, legal secretary, legal administrative assistant, or comparable legal office experience.
- Experience drafting, editing, proofreading, and organizing legal documents and correspondence.
- Strong calendar management, deadline tracking, file management, and administrative support skills.
- Professional communication skills with the ability to interact with attorneys, clients, courts, vendors, and opposing counsel.
- High attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to handle confidential information appropriately.
- Dependable, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, on-site legal office environment.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience supporting Commercial Litigation or Insurance Defense matters.
- Familiarity with legal billing, invoice preparation, document management, and basic legal research.
- Prior experience maintaining physical and electronic case files in a legal services environment.

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