Find Jobs
Find Jobs Near You – Available Work in Your Location
Legal Administrative Assistant
Career Insights for Paralegal / Legal Assistant
See where this job fits in the broader career landscape. Knowing your career path helps you see what's possible from here.
Scorecard
Based on Massachusetts data
Review key factors to help you decide if this role fits your goals. How is this calculated?
What they do
A Paralegal or Legal Assistant assists attorneys and law offices with a variety of tasks ranging from administrative support to legal research and writing. Maintains and organizes files or file databases. Conducts legal or other background research, assists with preparation for trials or hearings, and drafts documents to be filed. Uses software for electronic discovery of materials such as email for a trial. May specialize in a particular area of the law such as corporate or criminal law, family law or real estate law.
$70,632 / year median in Massachusetts
+8% projected growth
Job Description
Full Job Description Job Summary:
We are seeking a detail-oriented Legal Assistant to join our team. The ideal candidate will provide administrative support to our legal team, ensuring smooth daily operations within the firm.Responsibilities:
-- Manage daily mail, open, scan, send daily internal email, save documents to client folders and assign next tasks in the client management file system.
- Prepare outgoing mail consisting of proposals for engagements as well as draft documents prepared by attorneys and paralegals.
- Prepare estate planning files for signings. Each week we have four to five clients signing their final estate planning documents and each document needs to be updated with the appropriate witness and notary name, signing date, printed on bond paper, and signature locations flagged.
- Prepare meeting folders with relevant meeting documents for the attorneys.
- Prepare binders with signed estate planning files. Following signings, each estate planning file needs to be scanned and binder created and then mailed out to the client.
- As time allows, the position would also include: o Assisting the client service representative in making follow up calls and sending out mailed reminders o Preparing initial drafts of estate planning documents to assist the paralegals.