Litigation Secretary - Oakland, United States - AGG Legal Staffing

    AGG Legal Staffing
    AGG Legal Staffing Oakland, United States

    2 weeks ago

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    Description

    Law firm in Oakland seeking a seasoned secretary to join their litigation team

    Essential Job Duties:

    • Secretarial, word processing and legal administrative support for multiple partners and associate attorneys in a variety of practice areas.
    • Create, revise, and format legal documents, pleadings, correspondence and forms from handwritten drafts, notes, or dictation. Apply track changes, formatting, and styles; edit, label, and redact documents; compare documents using document comparison software and produce redlined versions; ability to produce TOA and TOC
    • Proofread documents for spelling, grammatical, typographical and formatting errors
    • Assist attorneys with special projects and other general administrative duties.
    • Schedule and calendar meetings, depositions, hearings and court reporters
    • Perform legal calendaring
    • Assist with the opening and closing of matters
    • Interact with clients, visitors, attorneys and staff via telephone and email
    • Experience with E-filing in both State and Federal courts

    Qualifications:

    • 3+ years of experience as a litigation legal secretary within a law firm environment
    • Ability to support multiple attorneys in a fast-paced environment
    • Strong organizational skills and the ability to multi-task
    • Excellent interpersonal and written and oral communication skills
    • Ability to take direction and work independently with little or no supervision as well as part of a team
    • Ability to handle complex assignments and complete projects under tight deadlines, must be able to quickly adapt to changing priorities
    • Strong commitment to client service
    • Must be a team player
    • Excellent attention to detail and proofreading skills
    • Ability to work overtime on an occasional basis

    Minimum Requirements:

    • High School diploma or GED, required
    • 3+ years of litigation experience required
    • Strong knowledge with Office 365 and Adobe Acrobat or FoxIt PDF
    • Experience with a Document Management System such as iManage, Filesite, NetDocs