Legal Assistant – Criminal Defense Position Available In Broward, Florida

Job Description:

Are you ready for a career challenge that focuses more onpersonal growth than just a job posting? If you’re passionate aboutassisting others and thrive in a high-achieving environment, RossenLaw Firm is calling your name. Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,we stand by good people during tough times to pave the way for abetter future. We are in search of a driven and meticulous LegalAssistant to support our dynamic team, contributing to dailyoperations and case preparations for a seamless workflow. Joiningus means being part of a vibrant team of dedicated, witty, andskilled individuals who are committed to treating our clients withutmost respect, empathy, and care. Ready to embrace thechallenge?

Responsibilities:

• Interacts with clients and other parties and buildsrelationships with them by phone, email, and in person.
• Act as backup intake for potential new clients who call, text,or fill out a web form in order to schedule them for a StrategySession while promoting the firm.
• Travel between the Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton offices.
• Maintain and update case management system, relationshipmanagement systems, document management systems, and othermission-critical systems.
• Maintain calendars: schedule appointments, post tasks, anddeadlines, and ensure the Firm and team’s calendars are accuratelymaintained and organized in a logical and efficient manner.
• Retrieves and delivers emails and voicemails and ensures thatcopies of messages are documented in the Firm’s files (paper,electronic, or both).
• Interacts with the courts and administrative agencies regardinghearings, motions, and other appearances, becoming the courts’primary point of contact with the firm for all administrative andscheduling issues. Is also responsible for monitoring Court Zoom ifthe attorney is not present.
• Prepares and ensures the execution of engagement agreements,receipt of signed agreements, Waivers of Prosecution, and sectionsof Seals and Expungement cases.
• Prepares and sends legal correspondence as directed byattorneys; puts documents typed initially by attorneys into finalform, ready to be delivered to courts, clients, co-counsel, andopposing counsel, including legal motions: Motion Modify Pre-TrialRelease, Motons for Early Termination of Probation.
• Ensures that the attorney has all of the relevant materialsready when the attorney has meetings or court appearances,including trial prep and trial binders, mitigation, legal research,and case law.
• Enters time, billing data, and costs.
• Sets up and manages new client and Firm files (including uniquepost-strategy session tasks); closes files after the case isclosed.
• Make copies, scan documents, mail subpoenas/discovery toclients in custody, and provide in-house notary services.
• The Legal Assistant carefully ensures tasks are completed bythe due date, legal documents are accurate, and clientcommunications are handled promptly.

Qualifications:

This person must have excellent time management skills in additionto the following:

• 1+ years of proven experience in legal support is required.
• Experience in criminal law is preferred but not required.
• Excellent computer skills and experience in Microsoft andGoogle applications and Salesforce.
• Reliable transportation to travel between our Fort Lauderdaleand Boca Raton offices.
• Strong customer service skills with a genuine desire to helppeople in need. You must love criminal defense.
• A strong-minded person who can handle coaching in a fast-pacedenvironment.
• Ability to handle sensitive situations in a professional,confidential, and courteous manner.
• A curiosity to learn things quickly and always strive to bebetter.
• Spanish speaking is preferred.
• Strong understanding of legal terminology, procedures, anddocumentation.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to managemultiple priorities effectively.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to accuracy and quality.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in afast-paced environment.

About Company:

With offices in Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, and throughout SouthFlorida, Rossen Law Firm is a high-end criminal/DUI defense firm.

With a team of litigating attorneys, Rossen’s 1,000+ 5-star reviewstell the stories of a criminal defense law firm that truly puts itsclients first. We’re not your typical law firm. We pride ourselves on our freshapproach to criminal defense and client advocacy. Our team isfast-paced, collaborative, and unapologetically driven to make adifference. Here, your voice matters, your growth is supported, andyour career will evolve in exciting and unexpected ways. So, if you’re ready to close deals, connect with people, andredefine what success looks like, we want to hear from you. Join usin transforming lives, one strategy session at a time. Rossen Law Firm is an equal-opportunity employer.