Legal Assistant - Healthcare And Tax-exempt Organizations

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Legal Assistant - Healthcare and Tax-Exempt Organizations

The candidate will understand assigned timekeepers’ practice and clients. Extensive interaction with clients; acts as intermediary with clients and responds to client requests. Manage client billing process, including review and editing of pre-bills. Maintain up-to-date forms, including collaboration with other departments on templates. Check in regularly with attorneys to ensure all aspects of any project are under control. Prompt as needed. Exercise careful judgment about when to ask for guidance. Assign appropriate tasks to other departments, and support staff. Follow up on status of all projects to ensure timely completion. Communicate clearly with all appropriate team members on project status. Set up data rooms for transactions; provide required information to IT for initial set up, organize data room structure, populate data room with required documents, communicate access information to data room participants, update and maintain data room, maintain due diligence/document production checklist in connection with data room documents. Type, proofread, run comparisons, and edit correspondence, memoranda, agreements and other legal and business documents from notes, templates, drafts, or dictated text under time-sensitive deadlines. Maintain attorney and client files, both paper and electronic formats; maintain email and electronic files using NetDocs. New business intake/open new client and new matter files. Schedule and coordinate appointments, meetings and conference calls and maintain calendars on behalf of attorneys. Answer, screen, and respond to phone calls. Open and route mail, attaching appropriate files and documents. Prepare and submit expense reimbursement reports and check requests. Make travel arrangements. Schedule conference rooms and arrange for food service and audio-visual equipment as needed. Assist fellow assistants and additional attorneys as needed.

Company info

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
1201 Third Avenue Suite 2200
Seattle
Washington
United States 98101-3045
Website : http://www.dwt.com/