Job Title: Legal Assistant
Location: Buffalo, NY
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Industry: Law Practice and Legal Services
Compensation: $25.00-$32.00/Hour **Based on experience
Schedule: M-F 8:00AM-4:30PM or 8:30AM-5:00PM (37.5 hours/week) **Hybrid after training - 4 days in-office, 1 day remote
About the Opportunity:
- We are seeking a Legal Assistant to join a dynamic team, providing legal administrative support to assigned attorneys in the firm's Litigation practice group.
- Responsibilities involve significant contact with clients, external attorneys, and legal staff within the firm.
- Confidentiality in handling client matters is critical to the performance of duties.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance—where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
Sound like a good fit?
APPLY TODAY **Please send resumes to Cara at [email protected]**
What You'll Do:
- Provides comprehensive support for all aspects of the general Litigation practice.
- Assists in the preparation of correspondence, memoranda, pleadings, motions, discovery requests and responses, and other legal documents for matters venued in state and federal courts; aids with discovery related requests and responses in conjunction with document production and review.
- Assists with electronic court filings as directed in both state and federal courts.
- Calendars deadlines and court dates, assists with the coordination of depositions, meetings and travel arrangements.
- Interfaces with clients through various forms of communication; responds to client inquiries when appropriate.
- Opens new client matters; prepares engagement letters, interacts with finance department to assist with client billing and track project budgets.
- Drafts legal documents, forms, applications, supplemental materials and correspondence for attorney review; tracks versions of legal documents.
- Responsible for project coordination, including input and maintenance of client matters and client file logs and notification of deadlines.
- Performs general administrative tasks including entering time, general calendar management, expense reimbursements, and mailing.
- Coordinates meetings and provides supplemental materials and support as needed.
What You'll Bring:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- 3+ years of experience supporting attorneys in a litigation environment.
What Sets You Apart:
- Associate's Degree.
- Bachelor's Degree.
- Knowledge of the Litigation practice area - including procedures, forms, and terminology.
- Ability to work effectively with a variety of clients and staff; proven ability to provide exceptional client service.
- Strong organization skills: ability to response to multiple priorities and plan work to meet varying deadlines.
- Skill in proofreading lengthy and complex legal documents for grammatical, typographical and spelling errors, and for general accuracy and completeness.
- Strong writing skills, including proper spelling and correct grammar; accuracy; attention to detail and figures.
- Demonstrates competency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook); ability to utilize document management software efficiently.
- Knowledge of standard legal file organization practices.