Senior Executive Legal Assistant/ Secretary to support a wonderful, pleasant labor and employment senior partner who is also on the firm’s management committee.
A senior partner, 2 other partners, and a practice group manager will be part of the team, and they will work collaboratively.
You can work 9:00 – 5:15, for a 36.25-hour work week.
This position is 3 days a week in the office and 2 days remote. There may be an additional day in the office on rare occasions
Great attorneys, Secretarial Manager, firm culture, and more! Up to $110,000 with a bonus
The Ideal Candidate will have experience at a medium- to large-sized law firm and solid tenure in each role. This role is available due to retirement.
One of DC’s premier law firms, located near three different metro stops, seeks a senior executive legal secretary/administrative assistant with solid experience and skills to support a senior partner in Labor and Employment and Law. You will be assigned additional partners/ associates in the future. Please have 10+ years of solid executive-level legal secretarial experience.
You will:
- Compose general correspondence, reports, memoranda, spreadsheets, expense reports, and complex documents that may require advanced word processing skills.
- Maintain attorney(s) appointment calendar, meetings, business trips, and sensitive client matters, and prepare mailings.
- Arrange all travel reservations and prepare all travel expense reports.
- Transcribe legal documents, correspondence, and reports from rough draft, dictation, or transcription.
- Open new file requests and conflict of interest checks with the appropriate department and maintain all client and general files.
- Keep files current and filing up to date for each client/matter.
- Conduct periodic review for possible storage of older files; prepare files to be closed.
- Assist in coordinating events and other large social functions in DC.
- Handle extensive and specific domestic and international travel arrangements.
- Work in conjunction with the other senior-level assistants.
Please have:
- The ability to compose documents in the appropriate business style using correct grammar and spelling; communicate clearly using proper grammar and diction over the telephone; proofread typed material for grammatical, typographical, or spelling errors.
- Intensive document organization and preparation skills are required.
- Proficiency in e-filing in state and federal courts.
- 10+ years of executive-level legal secretarial and/or legal administrative experience
- Dictaphone or other transcription equipment is helpful.
- Minimum typing speed of 60 wpm
- Solid MS Office Word and exceptional writing and proofing skills, and you will be tested.
Paid overtime when needed, a bonus, and spectacular health and wellness benefits. They believe in work-life balance and consider their people the best in the industry. Up to $110,000 DOE, skills, education, and tenure