Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Heavy calendaring, docketing and eFiling
• Must be proactive and manage their attorney's docket effectively
• Follow-up with attorney on deadlines
• Ensures strict confidentiality at all times
• Collect case information and prepare client engagement documentation
• Manage the collection and maintenance of statistical data for internal reporting and analysis
• Prepare initial drafts of litigation documents for attorney review including discovery requests
and responses and case opening and closing filings
• Legal research, writing, analysis, and cite checking
• Collaborate with firm's billing department on client billing
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:
• A college degree is preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of 5 years' experience
• Possess cooperative spirit; participate and collaborate in a team-based environment
• Demonstrate proficiency with MS Office (Outlook, Excel and Word)
• Litigation related experience required at some point throughout career
TECHNOLOGY:
• MS Office • Outlook • WestLaw • Litify • Docrio • Chrome River