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Legal Secretary - Environmental/Regulatory/Legislative (50518) Location: US-TX-Austin Jobcode: 82a7805c-b10f-4f73-88ee-8fbba5048733 Email Job
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Our client has a new opportunity available for an experienced Legal Administrative Assistant/Legal Secretary to support the Environmental/Regulatory/Legislative section of their firm.
The Legal Administrative Assistant provides high-level administrative support and maintains positive contact with attorneys and support staff and observes confidentiality of client, personnel and firm matters.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Coordinate and schedule travel, meetings and appointments for attorneys and assist with expense reimbursements
- Provide accurate timesheet entry, review and revision
- Participate in timely review and submission of prebills and/or client bills
- Maintain good communication with clients and observe confidentiality of attorney-client relationship
- Answer client phone calls and messages to attorneys in a timely and courteous manner
- Manage hard copy documents and transmit for safekeeping, profile electronic documents/emails and manage distribution of correspondence and legal documents
- Manage and prioritize incoming workflow to meet all deadlines
- Perform other administrative and secretarial duties as requested
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES REQUIRED
- Must be highly organized and able to manage multiple concurrent projects
- Comfortable communicating with clients
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Word and Outlook
- Working knowledge of legal documents, formatting, table of contents, styles, track changes, inserting and labeling pdf documents and inserting into documents and converting pdf documents to Word
- Experience working with a document management system (iManage experience a plus)
- Good grammatical and writing skills
- Ability to multi-task and work closely with attorneys in a fast-paced busy role
- Minimum of 5 years experience
- Law firm experience preferred
- Administrative Law and Contested Case Litigation Experience required (e.g., PUC, Railroad Commission, SOAH & TCEQ)
- Experience with Data Rooms and Discovery Management
R.L. Barclay & Associates
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