Legal Assistant Paralegal

About the role

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP is seeking a Legal Assistant/Paralegal to join our New York City office. BSF employees have the opportunity to work on high-profile, cutting-edge matters alongside leading lawyers. The ideal candidate will have 2-3 years experience in the legal field, ideally in litigation. The candidate needs to be comfortable working in fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and proofread legal documents.
• Conducting legal and factual research.
• Electronic document review.
• Manage electronic documents for easy retrieval.
• Compose correspondence, memoranda, and drafts of routine documents for attorney’s review.
• Maintain client and administrative files in accordance with Firm procedures – maintain current lists of files, account numbers, client names/addresses and other information as required.
• Preserve and protect the confidences and privileged communications of all clients.
• Coordinate administrative support for trials, arbitrations or client meetings.
• Contributes to a team to accomplish related results as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree; 2–3 years of relevant experience.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and administrative skills are required.
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent computer skills are required. This includes experience with all Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with law, legal procedures, and protocols and/or experience as a legal assistant/paralegal are a plus.

Pay

$85,000 - $90,000