Legal Secretary

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Legal Secretary

The candidate will be responsible for managing a caseload of 75-100 cases spanning a variety of legal fields, including (without limitation) general civil litigation, employment law, family law, intellectual property, and commercial litigation. The legal secretary supports multiple attorneys with calendaring/docketing, e-filings, and maintaining and organizing pleadings and transactional files. Open new case files, including coordinating conflict of interest checks, tracking potential new clients, and preparing case initiation documentation. Maintain a structured docketing system and case management procedure. Schedule all appointments including all hearing dates, mediations, telephone conferences, and client meetings. Serves as a point of contact for the attorneys, clients, and other personnel concerning the cases.

Read, sort, date, and appropriately route incoming mail as well as properly route outgoing mail and coordinate items to be delivered. Document and input attorney billable time as well as review, edit, and finalize all client invoices. Document preparation includes bates stamping, redacting, hyperlinks, and creating pleading files. Other duties as assigned. Graduation from high school or its equivalent and a minimum of two years of experience as a legal secretary; knowledge of the county, state, and federal court filing guidelines and district court e-filing; comprehensive knowledge of court procedures, legal documents, and court rules; ability to proof read and draft basic documents and letters; strong Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel skills; knowledge of formatting memos, and letters, and using templates.

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Company info

Jones Waldo Holbrook Mcdonough PC
170 S. Main Street Suite 1500
Salt Lake City
Utah
United States 84101-1644
Phone : 801-521-3200
Fax : 801-328-0537
Website : http://www.joneswaldo.com