Legal Assistant

Small Austin firm seeks professional, self-starting part-time (20-24 hours per week), Legal Assistant to join our team. Our small practice handles extensive work in real estate, business litigation and a host of other complex business matters. We believe in embracing hard work with respect, positivity, and a teamwork approach to meet our clients’ needs.

Who We Are Looking For:

Proactive Team Player
Must be a team player who works well with others. Our office feels strongly about a positive and kind work environment free of gossip and negativity. A confident self-starter who wants to work, learn, and support our Paralegal who helps three (3) attorneys with minimal supervision for independent tasks. Must work well with others and be a positive go between with the attorneys, clients, and our Paralegal to pitch in to meet our clients’ and office needs in a fast-paced environment. Must be job oriented with an inner drive to work and learn and be dedicated to the legal profession.

Professional Communicator
Must excel at both oral and written communications.

Professionalism
A professional who understands our clients are often dealing with stressful situations and interactions with our staff should make them feel heard, valued, and put them at ease.

Excellent Time and Task Management
You will be working on many tasks and cases concurrently, over long periods of time, with strict timelines. We need someone who is well organized to assist and work alongside our Paralegal to ensure our deadlines are met, clients and attorneys are informed, keep track of cases, answer the office phone, take client calls, messages, and calendar appointments, as well as trials, mediations, and other important events, and prioritize time and tasks in an organized fashion with a positive attitude.

Strong Attention to Detail
Excellent organizational skills are required, including maintaining case files, organizing exhibits and documents, proofreading documents with accuracy and thoroughness.

Technology Savvy
Proficient using Mac/Apple computer and phone with a good technology ability to troubleshoot and work well with office staff
to assist with issues as they come up. We use Clio to keep track of time and client matters.

Job Experience
3+ years' experience working in the legal field required.

Responsibilities:

Assist our Paralegal in all aspects, including, but not limited to:

• Answer phone, take messages, schedule appointments.
• Maintain a meticulous firm calendar including client and court scheduling, monitoring dockets, filing reminders and deadlines.
• Prepare and track discovery and discovery logs.
• Ongoing case management, document client interactions, create and maintain files, update case list.
• Draft and proofread correspondence, discovery, pleadings, and other legal correspondence, ensuring proper format for attorney and court acceptance.
• File pleadings and other court documents using e-file.
• Document production and dissemination, prepare for depositions, prepare for trials.
• Schedule client meetings, arbitrations, mediations, and work with all parties to schedule hearings.
• Prepare witness lists, exhibits and trial notebooks.
• Keep track of your billable and unbillable time daily.
• Office located in west Austin. Must be willing to travel.

Benefits:

• Competitive pay.
• Paid time off.
• Once you get acclimated to the job, a partial work-from-home schedule can be discussed.

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