Litigation Legal Assistant

If you are an experience litigation legal assistant seeking to join a great firm in Houston, TX with a great culture and team offering COMPETITIVE pay and benefits, apply here!

Duties, including but not limited to:

• Supporting attorneys with trial preparation including pleadings notebooks, indexes, and exhibits
• Filing in State and Federal Courts
• Drafting, proofreading, editing and formatting legal documents and correspondence such as shell pleading and discovery documents
• Maintain control files of matters in progress and follows up to ensure that court ordered actions are competed
• Periodically request pre-bills and statements for billing purposes and prepare statements for signatures and send out
• Calendaring deadlines, schedules and attorney travel
• Prepare and send faxes, documents, mail, certified mail, overnight mail, FedEx packages and interoffice mail
• Mastering of assigned tasks such as correspondence, spreadsheets, minutes, reports, and other documents

Qualifications

• 5+ years of litigation experience at a law firm
• Defense and/or appellate experience preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Office products
• Experience working with various practice and case management databases and timekeeping and billing systems
• Excellent communication and organizational skills