Legal Assistant

McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLP•Long Beach, CA

7h•Onsite

About The Position

The Legal Assistant position involves managing all administrative tasks related to state and federal civil litigation. This includes preparing and editing legal documents and correspondence, maintaining both paper and electronic files, handling legal billing, and fielding calls from clients, borrowers, and other external parties. The role requires significant collaboration with other legal assistants, paralegals, and attorneys within a multi-disciplinary team. This is a full-time, onsite position located in Long Beach, CA.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or associate degree, and/or 1-3 years’ relevant administrative/legal work experience
Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Must be committed to providing exceptional customer service.
Ability to communicate courteously and effectively with borrower, clients, attorneys, other internal employees, and outside parties.
Must be able to work with others in a congenial and team-oriented manner.
Must possess exceptional organizational skills; the position requires the ability to multi-task and be adaptable to continual change.
Ability to read and write at a high level for proof reading and editing purposes.
High-level proficiency in MS Office suite.
Familiarity with case and document management software

Nice To Haves

Experience with systems such as LoanSphere, Tempo, and others is preferred.
Good understanding of the legal process surrounding foreclosure, real property, and title preferred.
Experience with review of title reports and identifying chain of title issues preferred.

Responsibilities

Drafting, preparing, proofreading, and formatting memoranda, correspondence, legal notices, deeds, assignments, financial transactions, and various other legal documents.
Ensuring the effective and timely delivery of outgoing mail, messenger deliveries, overnight deliveries, and document recordings/retrievals.
Maintaining a busy calendar and follow-ups.
Fielding calls from borrowers, clients, and other outside parties in a courteous and effective manner.
Ensuring timely, courteous, and thorough responses to a heavy volume of email correspondence.
Developing and maintaining congenial relationships with business associates and clients.
Providing exceptional customer service to clients at every level of interaction, including timely client status updates and follow-up on outstanding documents and/or services.
Consistently and accurately update the firm’s internal case management system, as well as all client systems.
Providing support to attorneys in a high volume, time sensitive atmosphere.
Performing other duties and responsibilities as needed.