Job Title: Legal Administrative Assistant - Commercial Litigation

Location: Minneapolis, MN 55402

Salary/Payrate: $60K-$85K annually and AWESOME benefits!!!

Work Environment: Hybrid (#1 of days WFH)

Term: Permanent / Fulltime 

Bachelor’s degree required: No

Referral Fee: AMS will pay $500 should the person you refer gets hired

JOB DESCRIPTION

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Our client, a Premier Construction, Real Estate and Business focused Firm based in Minneapolis, MN 55402, is seeking a full-time Legal Administrative Assistant with federal and/or state commercial litigation experience. This is a full time, permanent role paying an annual salary of $60K to $85K. This role is overtime eligible and will allow for remote work one day a week. The ideal candidate will have the ability to perform secretarial and substantial word processing functions for attorneys in a professional office setting, where the work environment is busy and demanding.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prepare, edit and format pleadings, signature pages and deposition and motion binders
• Assemble and file documents electronically
• Maintain calendars to track deadlines and status of cases, coordinates and schedules meetings, depositions, conference calls, and sends calendar invites and reminders
• Enter time on behalf of assigned timekeepers
• Maintain client files and contact information
• Schedule conference calls and travel arrangements
• Proactively ensure attorneys are prepared with necessary materials for hearings, depositions, trials, meetings, etc.
• Open, review and direct mail
• Other administrative tasks as assigned

POSITION EXPECTATIONS:

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to work with and take direction from multiple individuals, as well as the ability to work independently
• Strong planning, prioritization, and organizational skills
• Excellent administrative/secretarial and proofreading skills
• Strong attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Positive and professional demeanor
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities with competing deadlines
• Regular and predictable attendance

REQUIREMENTS:

• Prior litigation legal administrative experience
• Minimum of high school graduation, business school or related professional legal secretarial degree preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Workshare or Word Compare, Outlook and iManage