Legal Administrative Clerk

Edward Jones

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About The Position

Our Legal Response Team serves as a critical partner to the firm, managing legal requests, court orders, litigation matters, and regulatory inquiries while helping protect the firm, its clients, and its associates. This team works across a variety of legal workstreams and collaborates with business partners, attorneys, courts, and outside counsel to ensure timely, accurate, and risk-conscious responses. As a Legal Administrative Clerk, you'll play a key role in providing administrative support for litigation and regulatory matters, with a primary focus on intake, assessment, triage, assignments and file opening. You'll work independently on a variety of legal matters, helping to mitigate risk through accuracy and efficiency, while collaborating with a highly engaged legal team.

Requirements

• 3+ years of legal support experience in litigation, regulatory, or related environments.
• Strong communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, adapt quickly, work independently, and maintain confidentiality.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Professional, and document management systems.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree or Paralegal Certificate preferred.
• Experience with legal records management, data entry, legal calendaring, and case triage preferred.

Responsibilities

• Research and gather information from internal systems, attorneys, courts, and external parties.
• Process, review, and track legal documents, expenses and deadlines, including intake, scanning, and case assignment.
• Maintain case management records, including opening/closing files and updating legal and regulatory documentation.
• Support attorneys and paralegals by managing priorities, deadlines, correspondence, invoices, and reports.
• Create and maintain spreadsheets, templates, and departmental reporting.
• Handle highly confidential information with sound judgment and appropriate escalation when needed.
• Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while ensuring accuracy and compliance.

Benefits

• medical and prescription drug
• dental
• vision
• voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness)
• short- and long-term disability
• basic life
• basic AD&D coverage
• 401k retirement plan
• tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account
• ten paid holidays
• 15 days of vacation for new associates
• sick time
• personal days
• a paid day for volunteerism
• bonuses
• profit sharing
• Employee Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree