Legal Ligitation Secretary

Snelling is recruiting for an experienced Legal Litigation Secretary for one of Alabama’s largest law firms! As a legal secretary, you will be responsible for providing administrative support to lawyers and legal staff to ensure a smooth and efficient functioning of the legal office.

Key Duties for Legal LitigationSecretary:

• Prepares all legal documents, correspondence, memoranda, drafts, and other legal documents from written and oral drafts or dictation; drafts standard correspondence, and other documents.
• Performs court required electronic filing.
• Reviews completed assigned tasks and document production to check for errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, formatting, and legal case sighting for correctness.
• Drafts/types complaints and answers, routine notices, affidavits, motions and petitions, contracts, and closing documents when applicable.
• Establishes, organizes, and maintains attorney trial notebooks, expert witness notebooks, document indexes, reports, and lists, when applicable.
• Establishes and maintains calendar and deadline reminder system; utilizes calendar system as required per assigned attorney; reviews weekly motion docket and monthly trial docket; assists in scheduling meetings and depositions.
• Opens new files, completes, and submits conflict of interest report requests.
• Completes new matter request forms and submits to billing department.
• Make appointments for attorney(s) as requested; make travel arrangements for attorney(s), as requested.
• Processes bills; proofs work in process; reviews and edits work in process in preparation for billing.
• Ensures that attorney time sheets are entered into the time and billing system.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required for Legal Litigation Secretary:

• 3-4 years as a Legal Secretary, preferably with Litigation experience
• Familiar with legal forms, document formats, printing requirements, and online legal research sites.
• Ability to transcribe legal documents, correspondence and reports from rough draft or dictation at a level of 70 wpm.
• Ability to organize and prioritize numerous tasks and complete them under time constraints.
• Interpersonal skills to communicate in person, by e-mail, and telephone to provide information with ordinary courtesy and tact.

What’s in it for you?

• $22.00 - $29.00 hourly based on experience
• Firm provided medical coverage with a Firm contribution to the premium.
• Firm provided dental and vision coverage with a Firm contribution to the premium.
• Firm paid life, short term, and long term disability insurance.
• Eleven paid holidays annually.
• Vacation, sick, and personal time.
• 7.5% Firm 401(k) contribution.
• Firm paid parking

Interested and qualified candidates for the Legal Litigation Secretary should submit their resume to wpreston@snellingbham.com for immediate consideration. Resumes will be reviewed as quickly as possible and qualified applicants will be contacted to set up an interview.

For additional information, please contact Whitney Preston at 205.879.9950

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