Legal Assistant

Executive Assistant, LegalThe Legal Assistant will provide high-level administrative and operational support to the Legal Department. This role will manage complex scheduling, travel, expenses, communications, and document coordination while also assisting with legal deadlines, contracts, outside counsel, and department-wide projects.Key responsibilities include managing a complex calendar, coordinating meetings and appointments for the Legal Department, coordinating domestic travel arrangements, preparing and processing expense reports, serving as a key point of contact for the Legal Department, drafting, formatting, proofreading, and editing legal documents, correspondence, reports, and presentations, tracking important legal, compliance, and departmental deadlines, researching information and preparing summaries or status reports, coordinating with internal teams and outside counsel, maintaining organized legal files, correspondence, contracts, and other confidential documentation, managing executed contracts, assisting with Legal Department and compliance meetings, supporting visitor coordination, executive meetings, phone coverage, and other general administrative needs.Qualifications include 7+ years of experience as a Legal Assistant, preferably supporting a legal executive, attorney, or legal department, experience managing complex calendars, travel arrangements, expenses, confidential documents, and competing priorities, strong proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, excellent written and verbal communication skills, highly organized and exceptionally detail-oriented, proactive and self-sufficient with the ability to anticipate needs and work independently, strong problem-solving and follow-through skills, comfortable managing tight deadlines and multiple priorities simultaneously, outgoing, professional, and confident interpersonal style, willingness to take ownership of tasks with a "no task is too small" mentality, and an associate's or bachelor's degree strongly preferred.