Legal Assistant Commercial Real Estate

Job Description

Job Description

Legal Secretary - Commercial Real Estate

Prestigious Regional Law Firm is seeking an experienced Legal Assistant with 5 or more years of Real Estate Law experience to join their Team!

Legal Assistant - Job Description :

• Create, format, edit, proofread, and manage Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. Draft routine correspondence, forms, etc. under the supervision of an appropriate lawyer / professional.
• Answer telephone and routine questions from clients and staff members and / or route calls to appropriate lawyer or staff member.
• Assist with managing lawyer’s calendar by scheduling appointments, depositions, meetings (external and internal), hearings, closings, etc.
• Schedule domestic and foreign travel through firm travel system, including flights, hotels and / or car rentals.
• Track, organize, and process reimbursements, invoices, and check requests.
• Run conflict checks, open new client matters, and draft engagement letters and other required documents; provide guidance to lawyers so completed forms are submitted properly.
• Opens, prioritizes and distributes mail. Coordinates mailings, deliveries, copying and courthouse filings where appropriate
• Enter and manage work requests from lawyers in the workflow tool and complete according to provided deadline(s).
• Perform routine filing, photocopying, scanning, compiling, and distributing of documents; identify and coordinate available services provided by administrative departments such as office services, the IT Help Desk, word processing, accounting, billing, and records.
• Operates independently to ensure assignments, which may be complex in nature or require high-level production, are completed in an accurate and timely manner. Produces a high volume of work assignments in an accurate and timely manner.
• Manage both paper and electronic client files, assisting with real estate contracts and amendments as well as closing documents, researching and obtaining corporate and UCC-1 filings and recorded documents, preparing closing checklists, monitoring transaction progress, handling post-closing documents, and assisting as needed with billing client invoices.

Legal Assistant - Requirements :

The firm pays a generous salary and excellent benefit package and PTO!

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