Legal Administrative Assistant - Salary To $75K P/A - Washington D.c - Family Law Or Litigation

Legal Administrative Assistant - Salary to $75k p/a - Washington D.C - Family Law or Litigation

We are specialist recruitment and headhunting agency working with our client, a well established law firm operating in the Washington D.C area.

A fantastic opening has arisen for an ambitious and experienced Legal Administrative Assistant (Family Law or Litigation specialist) to join their team on a permanent, full-time basis. This role would suit a person with a minimum of 3 years Legal Admin or Paralegal experience.

Responsibilities/Skills/Experience:

· Prepare and draft legal documents.

· Manage calendars, schedule meetings, and maintain court date diary.

· Handle extensive client contact via phone, email, and in-person.

· File and e-file documents with various courts in D.C. and MD, and open, maintain, and close client files.

· Complete expense reports, credit card reconciliations, and reimbursements, and organize attorney travel arrangements.

· Organize and maintain filing and retrieval systems, order and stock supplies, as needed.

· 3-5+ years of legal support experience.

· Proactive work style and analytical skills, with the ability to read, research, review, verify, and route correspondence, reports, and legal documents.

· Strong production skills, with the ability to produce accurate work product when transcribing tapes, formatting documents, inputting data, editing, copying, scanning, and transmitting text, data, and graphics.

· Strong written and verbal communication skills, with proficiency in grammar and spelling.

· Excellent client service skills, with a proven record of building effective relationships with both internal and external clients.

· Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), internet research skills, document management systems, and attorney time entry software.

· Comfortable working independently in a small office environment consisting of three in-office attorneys and remote staff.

The firm:

· A successful and highly renowned, rapidly growing full service law firm with several offices throughout the United States

If you are interested in this role please do send us your CV at your earliest convenience and one of our team will get in touch to discuss further.