Role: Legal Assistant

Status: Perm roles

Start: ASAP

Location: 100 % Onsite - NYC

Pay Rate: $20-25/hour - based on experience/qualifications

Multiple Openings

Details of the role...

  • Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Settlements, Environmental, and Liens departments
  • Perm Roles
  • Full-time hours (M-F, 35 to 40 hours a week).
  • 100% onsite – NYC
  • Pay Rate - $20-25/hour - based on experience/qualifications
  • Benefits: Medical, 401K, Paid Time Off

Responsibilities And Duties

  • Speaks with attorneys, clients, and other professionals to discuss assigned cases or projects.
  • Drafts legal documents including routine pleadings and motions, affidavits, and interrogatories, files motions and pleadings according to judicial procedures.
  • Researches and analyzes statutes, regulations, legal articles, judicial decisions, and other legal sources; provide written analysis to attorneys.
  • Interviews clients and witnesses and prepares summaries of their statements.
  • Prepare, organize, store, and retrieve case files, which may include evidence, exhibits, depositions, pleadings, exhibits, and other items.
  • Develops and maintains records on specific cases.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree is preferred, and recent graduates are encouraged to apply.
  • Understanding legal language and principles, research methods, court pleadings and processes, and other related matters is a plus.
  • Adept at learning and using legal software.
  • Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality, and to exercise discretion and good judgment.
  • Seniority level

    Entry level
  • Employment type

    Other
  • Job function

    Legal
  • Industries

    Non-profit Organizations

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