Clyde & Co US LLP seeks a legal assistant with 5 – 10 years of experience to provide excellent secretarial and administrative to join our San Francisco office. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a paperless environment and will tailor the unique support needs of each attorney while ensuring the smooth running of the group anddepartment as a whole.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide legal and administrative support to a team of attorneys
- Create, prepare, proofread, and amend high volume complex legal documents, pleadings, including table of contents and table of authorities,lettersand emails
- File pleadings with state and federal courts using various means, including electronic court filing systems.
- Calendar maintenance, such as scheduling hearings, briefing schedules, discovery deadlines, depositions, meetings, and knowledge of civil and federal court deadline filing dates, court rules, and procedures
- Prepare for andassistin trials
- Assist Paralegals in organizing case files and records maintenance
- Assistwith travel arrangements upon request including car, hotel and airfare reservations, and complete attorney monthly expenses to accounting
- Administrative work, including billing, correspondence,invoices,and reporting to clients
Essential Skills & Experience
- 5 – 10 years ofpreviousexperience as a litigation/trial legal assistant or secretary
- Must have legal experience, including filing with state and federal courts.
- Knowledge in e-filing
- Strong work ethic, organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills are essential.
- Ability to think ahead; to follow written and verbal instructions, strong skills in writing, researching, andorganization/flexibilityand Teamwork.
- Intermediateproficiencyof Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Previousexperience with File site or iManage filing systems
- Creative problem solver who takes initiative toaccomplishtasks with a minimal level of supervision.
- Exceptional attention to detail and highproficiencyin proofreading
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion and work with professionals inside and outside the firm.
The pay range for this position is $49.45 - $54.95 per hour, $90,000 - $100,000 annually. The range for this roleconsidersthe wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. It is not typical for an individual to be hired near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
This is the job description as constituted at present;however,the Firm reserves the right toreasonably amenditin accordance withthe changing needs of the business.
