Job Title: Litigation Legal Assistant

Location: Tampa, FL

Salary/Payrate: $72K - $80K

Work Environment: Onsite first 6 months, then 2 days WFH after 6 months

Term: Full-time permanent

Bachelor’s degree required: NO, preferred, but not required

Referral Fee: AMS will pay $500

 Required Experience: 5+ years of litigation secretarial/assistant experience in Law Firm, preferably in casualty litigation/insurance defense

Job Description

The legal assistant plays an important role in supporting legal professionals in the delivery of legal services to clients. The legal assistant is responsible for providing administrative and clerical support to multiple attorneys. Duties include drafting legal documents, managing case files, assisting with trial preparation, communicating with clients and maintaining confidentiality of sensitive information related to cases and clients.

Essential Functions and Basic Duties:

• Draft, format, prepare, proofread, and revise comprehensive legal documents
• Review all incoming mail, faxes and emails.
• Prepare outgoing mail for attorneys’ review
• Open new files for new matters and new clients, including running conflict searches for new cases
• Organize and manage client files by scanning, naming, saving electronically and destroying, when appropriate, client data in paper and electronic formats.
• Effectively and professionally communicate with attorneys, clients, opposing counsel, and adjusters by email and phone
• Review, distribute and electronically save daily incoming mail, legal documents, hand-deliveries and faxes
• Schedule and calendar depositions, hearings, mediations, inspections; calendar pre-trial conferences, and trials for assigned attorneys
• E-filing in state and federal courts and agency filings
• Print and circulate e-filed documents
• Answer attorney calls and take messages; forward calls as appropriate
• Enter, review and release time for attorneys as directed
• Prepare for trial by organizing documents, binders, charts, graphs and other evidentiary exhibits under the direction of a paralegal and/or attorney
• Assemble binders for depositions and mediations
• Update client case lists to ensure accuracy
• Update trial, mediation and case lists to ensure accuracy
• Prepare attorney expense reports
• Make travel arrangements for attorneys
• Process client vendor invoices
• Review pre-bills for accuracy and distribute; send invoices to clients
• Answer questions regarding billing, client budgets, expert invoices, client invoice appeals, etc.
• Provide coverage for other assistants while out on PTO 
• Assist with training new hires
• Complete all other projects/duties assigned

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Team player. 
• Creative problem solving 
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and with flexibility to meet deadlines
• Computer skills 
• 5 plus years of extensive litigation secretarial/assistant experience 

Benefits Include:

Health insurance with firm-paid HSA contributions on select plans

Dental and vision insurance

Firm paid life insurance and short term disability insurance

Optional Aflac supplemental plans

Paid time off and paid holidays

Paid parking

Included on-site gym access

Complimentary subscription to the Calm app, offering guided meditations, sleep support, and mindfulness tools

Access to a company-sponsored financial wellness program