Legal Practice Assistant (LPA)
Responsibilities:
• Coordinate day-to-day administrative and litigation support for attorneys, ensuring deadlines, priorities, and workflow needs are managed efficiently.
• Prepare, revise, and organize pleadings, correspondence, case materials, and hearing or trial binders for litigation matters.
• Submit court documents through state and federal e-filing systems while maintaining accuracy and compliance with applicable filing rules.
• Assist with discovery support, trial preparation, and calendar management to keep matters progressing on schedule.
• Open new matters, help initiate conflict checks, and support business intake activities tied to new client engagements.
• Enter attorney time and related expenses into billing systems with careful attention to timeliness and accuracy.
• Manage billing support tasks such as reviewing prebills, processing edits, distributing invoices, and helping address client-specific billing requirements.
• Work closely with billing professionals, attorneys, and administrative staff to ensure invoices and related documentation are completed correctly and delivered on time.
• Communicate with internal teams, clients, courts, and outside vendors to coordinate materials, track submissions, and support ongoing case activity.
• Provide backup assistance to the broader legal support team as workloads shift and coverage is needed.
Qualifications:
• Demonstrated experience supporting civil litigation matters in a legal assistant or legal practice assistant capacity.• Strong working knowledge of state and federal court procedures, including electronic filing and court filing requirements.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments at once in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the professionalism to interact effectively with attorneys, clients, court personnel, and vendors.
• Experience with time entry, billing coordination, and invoice review within a legal environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• High level of discretion and sound judgment when handling confidential client and attorney information.
• Organized, proactive, and dependable approach with the ability to work independently while collaborating across teams.
Compensation
$33.25-$38.50 HourlyAbout Us
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