Litigation Secretary
About The Position
Join the Growing Team at Greenberg Gross LLP! Are you a proactive, detail oriented professional, with a passion for making a difference? Do you love keeping tasks organized and helping move cases forward? Do you thrive in a collaborative team environment, embrace challenges, and love contributing to the team's success? You MAY be a fit for our team at Greenberg Gross! Who are we? Greenberg Gross LLP is a high-stakes boutique trial firm tackling some of society's most critical issues. We are growing rapidly and looking for team members who want to help us build our future. We currently have an opening for a litigation secretary. We are looking for a someone who is passionate about their work, detail oriented, high follow-through, and has a thorough understanding of how the legal process works.
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of litigation experience working in a legal and/or professional services environment
- Excellent grammar, communication, and organizational skills
- Proficient using MS Office products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)
- Attention to detail and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
- Ability to prioritize to meet deadlines
- Must be able to work overtime as needed.
Responsibilities
- Use word processing and document management software to prepare, revise, format, and finalize a wide variety of legal such as correspondence, pleadings, discovery, memoranda, agreements, and other legal documents under time-sensitive deadlines. Some pleading/discovery drafting required.
- Prepare documents for filing and/or service including: proofreading, editing, finalizing documents, generating TOC/TOA, gathering exhibits, ensuring compliance with all Federal, State, and/or Local Rules
- Heavy e-filing with state and federal courts. Current knowledge of Federal CM/ECF e-filing procedures. Some appellate court filings using TrueFiling
- Create mediation, arbitration, hearing, and trial binders; prepare discovery shells; set up and maintain litigation files; party and witness subpoenas
- Case management, including database management and electronic file organization
- Schedule appointments, depositions, meetings; maintain calendars; make travel arrangements; set up conference calls
- Assist with trial preparation
- Answer, screen, and respond to phone calls
- Open and route mail and email, attaching files and documents
- Maintain and track CLE records for attorneys
- Prepare and submit expense/reimbursement reports
- Assist fellow secretaries and additional attorneys as needed
- Other administrative tasks as needed
Benefits
- excellent salary and benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
