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Legal Administrative Assistant
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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.
$60,985 / year median in Tennessee
+13% projected growth
Job Description
Required Education:
High SchoolPreferred Education:
- Associate or bachelor's degree preferred
Qualifications:
- Minimum of five years of progressive administrative support experience required
- Legal administrative experience preferred
- Administrative Assistant
- Adobe Acrobat
- Correspondence - Email
- Correspondence - General
- Customer Service
- Emailing
- Legal
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Proofreading/Editing
- Scheduling
Verbal CommunicationJob Overview:
This position is responsible for assisting the CLIENT with environmental enforcement. This position will assist attorneys in reviewing draft orders prepared by division staff. After orders are issued, this position will assist attorneys with appeals and enforcing final orders. The legal assistant position is full-time (37.5 hours per week). This hybrid in-office and work-from-home position is based in the CLIENT central office in downtown Nashville.Responsibilities:
- Review draft enforcement orders for factual accuracy and documentation, correct named respondents, current addresses for service of process, proofreading, and other quality-control issues.
- Prepare attorney cover letters for commissioner's orders and coordinate service of process.
- Assist CLIENT attorneys in handling appeals of enforcement orders.
- Facilitate communications with pro se respondents and opposing counsel.
- Draft agreed final orders.
- Prepare Notice of Hearing to docket matters.
- Proofread motions.
- Assist with discovery responses, depositions, and hearings.
- Prepare agreed final orders for settlements.
- Assist CLIENT attorneys in enforcing final orders, serving as the primary case manager.
- Draft demand letters for attorney signature, send them, and track responses or non-responses.
- Manage communications with pro se respondents or opposing counsel.
- Prepare attorney general referral memoranda.
- Assist with collections of civil penalties and damages.
- Prepare draft General Sessions warrants and affidavits for review by the assigned attorney.
- Once drafts are approved, secure the affiant's signature and arrange filing at General Sessions.
- Communicate updates and share documents with the assigned attorney.
- Promptly enter updates and upload documents in the case management database.
- Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.
- Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client's business needs and requirements.