Mitchell Hamline School of Law · 19 hours ago
Legal - HR Support Specialist
Saint Paul, MN
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$61K/yr - $80K/yr
3+ years expMitchell Hamline School of Law is seeking a Legal/HR Support Specialist to assist with a broad range of administrative, compliance, and documentation tasks. The role involves working closely with the General Counsel and HR team to maintain accurate files, prepare legal documents, and support HR functions while ensuring adherence to relevant laws and best practices.
Higher Education
Responsibilities
Manage the daily office operations, including handling general inquiries, ordering supplies, and scheduling. Serves as a liaison between the General Counsel and internal and external departments and law offices
Receive, screen and refer visitors, as well as scheduling appointments, receiving and making phone calls for the General Counsel
Manage, monitor and maintain the General Counsel's calendar, including scheduling meetings, tracking legal deadlines, and coordinating appointments. Coordinate travel arrangements and process related reimbursements
Establish and maintain a file organization and tracking system for legal matters, both physical and electronic
Draft, edit, proofread, format and compile professional documents, presentations, and correspondence and other related legal office activities. Conduct review, redaction, duplication and indexing of documents
Provide budget assistance - preparations, monitoring, and maintaining. Manage expense reports, corporate card reconciliation, and check requests. Gather, summarize and prepare reports related to engagement of outside counsel
May perform general research including legal analysis and application of relevant statues, case and administrative rules, document searches and factual searches within internal and external databases and systems
Maintain and organize confidential employee files
Support policy developments and updates. May research policy requirements
May assist with internal investigations and audits
Employee events coordination and planning
Assist with HR projects as needed
Performs other duties and responsibilities as requested or required
Qualification
Required
Associate's degree in business, legal or related fields and 3 years of previous legal and or administrative assistant experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
5 years legal administrative assistant experience with no higher education degree
Proficient in Microsoft Office 365, including skills in Outlook, Word, Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel
Adherence to the highest level of confidentiality and discretion with respect to the work
Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrated problem solving skills
Ability to handle multiple tasks with strong time management and prioritization skills
Excellent attention to detail
Preferred
Experience as legal administrative assistant
Bachelor's degree in business, human resources or related field
Additional years of administrative support experience
HR or legal office experience
Knowledge of MS Office and ability to work with legal technology (court-filing computer systems, transcription software, etc.)
Benefits
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Life/AD&D insurance (MHSL pays for)
Optional Life Insurance
Disability Benefits (MHSL pays for)
Generous Holidays and Winter Break
403(b) Retirement plan (Generous MHSL match)
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Competitive compensation package
Company
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Mitchell Hamline School of Law provides a legal education grounded in legal theory & distinguished by exceptional practical legal training. It is a sub-organization of Hamline University.
51-200 employees
Funding
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