Legal Secretary - Real Estate and Tribal Law

Job Description

Job Description

Procopio is seeking an experienced Legal Secretary to support our busy and growing Real Estate and Tribal Law teams! If you are passionate about your work and looking to join San Diego's largest and most progressive law firm, please apply! This position is in our San Diego office and will be hybrid remote. The Legal Secretary will work closely with staff and attorneys and will have a variety of responsibilities including:

1. Organizing and creating closing binders
2. Preparing and submitting conflict inquiries and new matter openings; preparing Engagement Agreements and Conflict Waiver letters
3. Managing, planning, calendaring of all conference calls and meetings, including client interface
4. Researching property profiles, searching online title database, retrieving title documents
5. Assisting with assembly of documents for closings
6. Assisting in enhancing attorneys practice efficiency and productivity

Our best candidates have 10+ years of Legal Secretary experience supporting real estate attorneys, past Tribal Law experience is a plus. This role requires a candidate to have very strong attention to detail alongside sound judgment, critical thinking, and a high level of ingenuity to assess issues, identify alternatives and recommend solutions. Candidates must have strong skills in MS Office, excellent word processing skills, as well as outstanding written and verbal professional communications. If you consider yourself skilled at handling a high volume of work and you have the skills and experience described above, we’d love to hear from you. Typical pay range is from $85,000 – $105,000 annual depending on experience. If your pay expectation is outside this range, we still encourage you to apply.

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP’s was again named to the U.S. News – Best Lawyers® Best Law Firms list, with the Real Estate group receiving a Metropolitan Tier 1 ranking. Procopio attorneys and practice groups are routinely named to various legal rankings lists, including Chambers and Partners®, Martindale-Hubbell®, and Super Lawyers®. Earlier this year Procopio was certified for the second straight year by Diversity Lab as a Mansfield Plus firm for actively advancing attorneys of color, LGBTQ+ and lawyers with disabilities to leadership roles.

The firm offers generous total compensation packages. Bonuses are awarded in recognition of individual and firm performance. Full-time employees can participate in our comprehensive benefit program includes: medical (HMO/PPO plans), dental (HMO/PPO plans), vision, including options for flexible spending/health savings accounts. We have Firm-paid and supplemental life and disability insurance. We have a great Employee Assistance Program and firm incentives for wellness program participation. We offer a 401k profit-sharing program after 12 months of consecutive employment. Additionally, we offer paid holiday, vacation, and sick days.

Procopio is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and encourages applications from women, people of color, persons with disabilities, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Procopio Rises Above and has made a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion; we condemn the discrimination of applicants by race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.