Jackson Lewis P.C. · 1 week ago
Litigation Legal Secretary
Jackson Lewis P.C. is a prominent law firm focused on employment and labor law, providing strategic solutions to cultivate high-functioning workforces. The Litigation Legal Assistant will offer comprehensive administrative support to attorneys, managing various tasks including calendar management, travel coordination, and communication handling.
Consulting
Responsibilities
Calendar Management: Coordinate attorney calendars, minimize conflicts, prevent double bookings, and proactively make decisions regarding appointment urgency and importance
Travel Coordination: Arrange travel itineraries, accommodations, and logistics for domestic and international trips, ensuring efficiency and cost-effectiveness
Administrative Support: Prepare and edit correspondence, presentations, reports, assist with expense reporting, budget tracking, and other administrative tasks as needed
Communication: Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external inquiries, screen phone calls, and prioritize correspondence
Meeting Coordination: Organize and facilitate meetings, prepare agendas, take meeting minutes, follow up on action items, and assemble meeting materials
Confidentiality: Handle sensitive information with discretion to attorneys, clients, and the firm, exercising tact, diplomacy, and judgment
Project Assistance: Provide support on special projects and initiatives, including research, data analysis, and coordination with cross-functional teams
Relationship Management: Build and maintain positive relationships with internal teams, external partners, and clients on behalf of attorneys
Overtime: Ability to work regular overtime, including extended hours or additional shifts, as needed
Qualification
Required
At least 3 years recent legal secretarial experience within a law firm, at least one of which was in the labor and employment field
Proactive and action-oriented with excellent computer skills, including MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF)
Tech savvy, curious, proactive, and willing to explore new technologies to increase efficiency
Ability to maintain confidentiality, demonstrate executive presence by conveying confidence, authority, professionalism, and leadership potential, and anticipate challenges in advance
Strong relationship-building, prioritization, organization, attention to detail, and communication skills
Displays the ability to see challenges in advance by being proactive versus reactive
Builds cross-functional relationships at all levels of the company to ensure understanding of the business, leaders, and workflow
Excellent at prioritizing and organizing their own work and the work of their executive
Excellent verbal and written communication skills to correspond and interact with all levels of management, external company executives, clients, and other contacts
Ability to proofread own work and work of others for content and format accuracy
May experience elevated levels of stress during periods of increased activity and with work entailing multiple deadlines
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required
Preferred
Familiarity with state and federal rules and procedures, electronic court filings (PACER, Peach Court, and Odyssey), and Board of Director's meetings is a plus, but not a requirement
Company
Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jackson Lewis P.C.is a workplace law firm.
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