Legal Assistant/Paralegal, Corporate Law
Lake Tahoe, NV
Are you looking for a Legal Assistant/Paralegal opportunity with a boutique law firm, offering from 32-40 hours a week? We want to talk to YOU! This opportunity offers great benefits and a professional, yet relaxed, office environment. Legal or contract management experience is necessary for this role.
What you'll do:
- Support a variety of Projects and tasks to support the multiple lawyers.
- Communicate with clients, including initial intake and reception duties and preparing correspondence.
- Maintain and organize files.
- Track and manage annual renewals for several hundred entities.
- Draft, prepare file and record various types of legal documents.
- Maintain calendars/scheduling and manage attorney task lists.
- Process billing and complete errands as needed.
What you'll need to have:
- 2+ years (5+ preferred) Legal Assistant or Paralegal experience or significant contract management experience.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word and Excel).
- A thorough knowledge of legal principles and practices, ethics, contracts, corporate forms and records, research techniques. and legal terminology.
- Proactive, curious and with the ability to take initiative and communicate well.
- Above average writing, editing and proof-reading skills, always striving for accuracy.
- Organized and detail-oriented, with excellent project/task management skills and understanding of deadlines.
- Skills reading, analyzing and drawing conclusions from information presented.
- Demonstrated proficiency with technology and a curiosity and willingness to continually learn new ones.
- Having a positive, outgoing, team-oriented attitude.
- Experience with Clio is a plus.
- Experience with corporate law preferred.
Benefits include:
- Medical insurance
- Vacation and sick paid time off
- Holiday pay
- 401(k)
- Competitive salary, DOE