Need a Spanish/English Bilingual Legal Assistant or Paralegal
If you have past office experience , we consider training the legal assistants.
Part time or full time available. Will consider as little at 10-15 hours a week.
SUMMARY: Fantastic work environment, amazing boss, and friendly co-workers await you at the high paced, small civil litigation law firm. We work hard and have a good sense of humor. The firm is growing and full of energy and is far from a corporate environment. The firm seeks a candidate to perform a variety of duties to accommodate and facilitate the assigned attorneys. You must have patience and people skills to communicate with clients and opposing counsel and staff, and frankly attorneys in general. Firm seeks someone resourceful and proactive to accomplish responsibilities. A bilingual spanish speaker is a must. Reliable and loyal is the unicorn.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: "Essential functions" are primarily job duties that incumbents must be able to perform unassisted or with some reasonable accommodation made by the employer.
- Operates a computer with various software packages and hardware (printer) such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. You need not be a guru however you are expected to be able to format a letter without instruction.
- Types correspondence, memoranda and other legal documents; drafts standard correspondence, memoranda and performs litigation support activities.
- Screens telephone calls and records messages and does not lose the message, or forget who called, in the time span from walking down the hall to relay the message.
- Reads, sorts and delivers incoming mail, electronic documents and faxes after making sure that the items had been docketed, if necessary. You must look at your emails and take appropriate action with each rather than opening and not ever responding.
- Use ICalendar for deadlines and appointments.
- Responsible for calendaring depositions, hearings and conferences with co-counsel regarding case management and making necessary arrangements if not handled by legal assistant.
- Prepares Notices of Deposition and schedules said depositions while ensuring that items are calendared and all parties are informed.
- Makes appointments and travel arrangements for attorney(s). Prepares and submits attorney expense statements.
- Receives and makes preliminary corrections to pre-bills for final approval of attorney. Processes invoices and submit to Accounting for payment.
- Acts as a team player with other secretaries to accomplish daily tasks.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
- Ability to read and write in order to proof and perform minor editing (e.g., punctuation, grammar, spelling) of routine law office correspondence and legal case matters. Perform non‑complex arithmetic calculations on forms and documents; maintain records and filing systems at a level normally acquired through completion of high school or equivalent.
- Approximately 2-4 years of on-the-job experience necessary in order to gain an understanding of law office policies and procedures and produce accurate legal documents with minimal supervision.
- Ability to organize and prioritize numerous tasks and complete them under time constraints.
- Interpersonal skills necessary in order to communicate and follow instructions effectively from a diverse group of clients, attorneys and staff and provide information with ordinary courtesy and tact both in person and over the phone.
Work Remotely
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $16.00 - $25.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 4 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Travel requirement:
Language:
- Spanish and English fluently (Required)
Work Location: In person