Our client, a prestigious firm, seeks an experienced Legal Assistant to join their successful Commercial Real Estate/Land Use team in their Clearwater, FL office. The role comes with a great salary package with additional perks such as paid health care, gym reimbursement, and parking. The culture is compassionate, and the atmosphere is top-notch.
Essential Duties:
- Manage the day-to-day schedules of the attorneys.
- Assist attorneys with the preparation of legal documents. Create, edit, and proofread work products to ensure accuracy.
- Maintain multiple attorneys’ calendars – deadlines, appointments and meetings.
- Processing reimbursements, expense reports and check requests.
- Inputs, reviews, edits, and closes timekeepers’ time entries.
- Handles monthly client billing. Review billing pre-bills for accuracy and completeness. Performs client, matter and timekeeper inquiries, and narrative edits.
- Opens new matters and generates client conflict checks. Sets up and maintains timekeeper’s work files, including daily and regular filing.
- Greeting all visitors/clients coming to the office.
- Serve as office manager for Clearwater location.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3 years experience as a legal assistant supporting multiple attorneys.
- Prior experience in litigation and/or real estate practice areas.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint and other software.
- Experience with a document management system and time entry system preferred.
- Excellent grammar, spelling, punctuation, and communication skills (both written and verbal).
- Attention to detail and good organizational and analytical skills.
- Flexible attitude and the ability to deal well with changing assignments and priorities.
