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Legal Administrative Assistant - Real Estate Practice

Offit Kurman

Legal Administrative Assistant - Real Estate Practice

Wilmington, DE
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Offit Kurman, a growing full-service law firm, is seeking a Legal Administrative Assistant to join its Wilmington office supporting attorneys in the Real Estate practice group. Candidates must possess five or more years of successful administrative support working as a legal administrative assistant or legal secretary.

    Candidates must have law firm experience and be technology proficient (advanced Word, Excel and Outlook) with strong attention to detail and ability to turn work around in an efficient manner with minimal errors, experience with maintaining calendars and scheduling meetings, strong communication skills and ability to manage the attorney assignment with a proactive approach balancing the needs of all.

    JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Preparation and revision of legal documents.
    • Organize and maintain filing and retrieval systems.
    • Manage calendars, organize and schedule external and internal meetings, settlements/closings, teleconferences, networking events, etc., maintain diary for dates and follow-up.
    • Open, maintain and close client files, including drafting initial engagement letters and maintaining executed documents
    • Handle extensive client contact, both via phone, email, and in-person.
    • Track Expense reports.

    SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

    • Prior experience with real estate legal support, including familiarity with real estate related systems and processes
    • Ability to research corporate and real estate information through appropriate government entities
    • Proactive work style and analytical skills: able to read, research, review, verify and route correspondence, reports and legal documents.
    • Strong production skills with ability to produce accurate work product when formatting documents, inputting data, editing, copying, scanning and transmitting text, data and graphics.
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with proficiency in grammar and spelling.
    • Proficiency in Microsoft Office 2017 (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint), Internet research skills, document management systems, attorney time entry software.

    Offit Kurman is one of the fastest-growing, full-service law firms in the United States. Offit Kurman offers a collegial, comfortable, and professional work environment, as well as competitive salary and benefits, to include Paid Time Off and 401(k) matching. We are a proud EEO employer and we are committed to a diverse workforce.

  • Industry
    Legal Services