Legal Assistant

A small boutique DC Law Firm is seeking an intelligent, enthusiastic Legal Assistant who is willing to learn and will help accomplish all functions of a small professional office.

Candidate should have excellent proofreading and writing skills, as well as solid Word and Excel skills. Looking for someone who has experience with document management, billing, data input for law firm expenses, and data input client transactions. The Legal Assistant will be working closely with one Partner and one senior associate.

Status: In-office, Monday-Friday, 7.5-hour workday

Salary: $60,000.00 - $70,000.00 DOE

**LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY**

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Greeting clients, visitors
• Mail and package handling (incoming and outgoing)
• Errand running – USPO, FedEx, UPS
• Landlord relationship management – communicate with building management re: non-emergency situations
• Relationship with other firm offices (New York, Chicago, and New Haven) and interact with legal teams in those locations.
• Calendar management for attorneys as requested
• Light research, document search, data entry on project-by-project basis as requested by attorneys
• Lawyer travel – making travel arrangements as requested

Lawyer administrative support

• Lawyer travel expenses: expense reimbursements, reconcile attorney’s American Express credit cards

Client Project Support

• Client filings with local jurisdictions, some trips to government offices
• Hard document production – wills, estates, trusts (Microsoft Word and Excel are required).
• Client meeting preparation
• Other document-based client project support

Physical Filing System

• Client hard copy files
• Administrative files
• Sort and file correspondence
• Enhance filing processes

Job Requirements:

• Excellent grammar, proofreading and math skills
• Ability to work with apps and programs
• Telephone etiquette
• Proficient Microsoft Office

Lawyer administrative support – ability to learn and become proficient with the following programs:

• Juris - time and billing system – entering time and expenses, working with lawyer to edit, finalize and send monthly bills
• NetDocs – document management system – scanning, digitizing, maintaining digital files
• iPaladin – broad data base client contact/informational system
• Microsoft Outlook – our email and calendar system

How To Apply: Please respond with your resume for consideration. We welcome all candidates that meet the REQUIRED qualifications with recent relevant experience. Palmer Legal Staffing is an equal opportunity employer.

About Us: Palmer is an award-winning staffing agency offering direct hire, temp-to-hire, and temporary placements for administrative, management, executive, legal and more. We represent more than 500 of the finest law firms and legal departments in the D.C. area.

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