Corporate Legal Assistant

Corporate Legal Assistant

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid/Onsite)

Salary: Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package
About the Opportunity

A well-established law firm is seeking an experienced Corporate Legal Assistant to support attorneys in a busy corporate and transactional practice. This role is ideal for a highly organized, detail-oriented legal professional who excels at producing complex legal documents, managing multiple priorities, and delivering polished work with minimal supervision.

The successful candidate will bring advanced legal document-production skills, strong technical proficiency, and experience supporting corporate and transactional attorneys.
Key Responsibilities
Legal Document Production

• Create, revise, proofread, format, and finalize complex corporate agreements, correspondence, and legal documents.
  
• Troubleshoot and correct advanced Microsoft Word formatting issues, including:
  
  • Automatic and multilevel numbering
    
  • Styles and templates
    
  • Tables, cross-references, and footnotes
    
  • Tables of Contents
    
  • Section and page breaks
    
  • Headers, footers, and page numbering
    
  • Track Changes, document comparisons, and redlines
    
• Convert PDF documents to Word and properly clean, reformat, and prepare documents for attorney use.
  
• Prepare, manage, and review document comparisons and redlines.
  

Transactional Support

• Assist with agreements, signature pages, executed documents, closing materials, and closing sets.
  
• Support transactional matters and document management throughout the lifecycle of deals.
  
• Organize and maintain electronic client and matter files, including version control and shared workspaces.
  
• Prepare and track electronic signature packages.
  

Administrative Support

• Maintain attorney calendars, meetings, and deadlines.
  
• Coordinate virtual meetings and conference calls.
  
• Create and revise PowerPoint presentations and perform basic Excel tasks.
  
• Assist with virtual data rooms, including uploading, organizing, and maintaining transaction documents.
  
• Provide overflow and administrative support to attorneys and practice group members as needed.
  

Qualifications
Required

• Prior experience as a Legal Assistant, Legal Secretary, or similar legal support professional.
  
• Advanced Microsoft Word skills with demonstrated experience producing lengthy and complex legal documents independently.
  
• Strong proficiency with Adobe Acrobat and PDF editing.
  
• Excellent proofreading, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and formatting skills.
  
• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational abilities.
  
• Strong communication skills and a professional, client-service mindset.
  
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
  

Preferred

• Experience supporting corporate and transactional attorneys.
  
• Familiarity with agreements, closing documents, signature pages, and closing sets.
  
• Experience with iManage, Litera, DocuSign, and virtual data room platforms.
  
• Proficiency in Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel.
  
• Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, private equity, financing, commercial transactions, or related practice areas.
  

Technology Experience

Experience with the following platforms is highly valued:

• Adobe Acrobat
  
• iManage
  
• Litera
  
• DocuSign
  
• Virtual Data Rooms
  
• Microsoft Outlook
  
• Microsoft Teams
  
• PowerPoint
  
• Excel

• Salary: $60,000 - $65,000
  Benefits:
  Depending on the specific client, location, and role, the benefits may include PTO, medical, dental, vision, term life and AD&D insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits, wellness plans, and a 401k plan or a non-qualified deferred compensation plan. Additionally, you may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Bonus eligibility and amount are based upon company and/or individual performance .
  
  
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  The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:
  • The California Fair Chance Act
  • Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
  • Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
  • San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
  
  
  
  

Pay Details: $60,000.00 to $65,000.00 per year

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Military connected talent encouraged to apply

To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to

The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Massachusetts Candidates Only: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.