Job Description
Job Description
Job Title: Legal Assistant – Corporate Tax
Location: Miami, FL
Salary: $70k – $85k + Bonus
Growing Law Firm seeks a Legal Assistant to join their Team!
Responsibilities:
- Following the Firm’s established document processing methods and procedures creates, edits, spell checks, and proofreads work products to ensure accuracy and completeness.
- Accurately transcribes from tapes, handwritten materials, and dictation. Prepares various forms and creates new documents using the Firm’s Best Practice methods.
- Schedules and maintains timekeepers’ calendars, where appropriate.
- Inputs, reviews, edits, and closes timekeepers’ time entries through the Firm’s time entry program using Firm standards.
- Handles monthly client billing (paper and electronic billing). Review billing prebills for accuracy and completeness.
- Performs client, matter, timekeeper inquiries, and narrative edits.
- Prepares timekeepers’ expense reports in promptly arranging for payment of vendor invoices or checks to be drawn and charged to appropriate client/matter numbers.
- Opens new matters and generates client conflict checks
- Sets up and maintains timekeeper’s work paper and electronic files, including daily and regular filing.
- Prints and organizes various documents received in multiple formats, including emails and attachments.
- As requested, answer the telephone and accurately take and relay messages.
- Arrange for video conferencing and set up conference calls.
Qualifications:
- Law firm experience preferred
- Billing experience, including electronic billing, is preferred.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft applications
- Strong typing skills, excellent grammar, spelling, punctuation, and communication skills.