Litigation Legal Assistant

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Salary : $50,000 - $70,000 per year

A bit about us :

Our client is a Pittsburgh headquartered law firm with multiple offices across several states, providing services to clients nationwide. Their clientele includes large corporations, privately-held companies, municipal entities, small businesses, and partnerships across various industries and sectors. Their attorneys are dedicated to addressing matters practically and efficiently, ensuring that each client's needs are met in the best possible manner.

Why join us?

Our client offers a collegial work environment with competitive salary and benefits, including a hybrid work schedule health, dental, and vision insurance, life and long-term disability insurance, and a 401(k) program.

Job Details

Our client is seeking a highly motivated and experienced legal assistant to provide secretarial and administrative support for up to three attorneys in our Litigation Defense practice group.

Job responsibilities would include :

• Transcribing, composing, formatting, editing, proofreading, and finalizing all forms of documents, correspondence, pleadings, and reports.
• Opening of new files, file set up and organization, preparing conflicts checks, and updating glance sheets and litigation profiles as needed.
• Preparing and filing of pleadings such as Appearances, Answers, and all pretrial and dispositive Motions in state and federal courts.
• Coordinating, maintaining, and calendaring upcoming trial dates, arbitrations, jury trials, depositions, inspections, and all corresponding status notes.
• Managing incoming mail, entering daily time entries, submitting vendor invoices for payment.
• Maintain attorney calendars, travel arrangements, and expense reporting.
• Reviewing and editing prebills per client guidelines.

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