Legal Assistant (Transactional & Litigation)

About the role

Krieg DeVault is seeking an experienced Legal Assistant to join their Transactional and Litigation practice in Indianapolis, Indiana. The ideal candidate will have at least three years of experience as a legal assistant with one year of litigation experience, a high school diploma, and significant experience with Microsoft Office applications.

Responsibilities

• Manage traditional administrative needs of multiple attorneys
• Provide legal administrative support for transactional and litigation work
• Prepare highly confidential documents such as agreements, contracts, correspondence, memoranda, and communications to clients
• Prepare closing binders, checklists, and signature packets for transactions
• Anticipate attorney needs, maintain systems for version control, file organization, and closing documentation
• Open new files, request conflict of interest checks, and maintain client and general files
• Manage attorney calendars
• Provide litigation support through court filings, managing case files, and preparing legal documents
• Provide organizational assistance with meetings, billings, travel, and maintaining calendars
• Proactively ensure the legal team is prepared with necessary materials for meetings and depositions
• Provide marketing assistance by managing alerts, updates, creating PowerPoints and spreadsheets
• Demonstrate good judgment and professionalism, and exhibit flexibility and versatility to provide support
• Demonstrate strong reasoning and resolution skills
• Perform special projects as required to increase the professional effectiveness and efficiency of the legal team

Requirements

• Minimum of three years of experience as a legal assistant with at least one year of litigation experience
• Minimum of a high school diploma
• Mastery of Microsoft Word – including creating and manipulating styles, using keyboard shortcuts, auto-numbering paragraphs, hyperlinking to other documents, creating tables of contents, tables of authorities, footnotes, and tables
• Mastery of Microsoft Outlook, including managing multiple attorney calendars
• Significant experience with Microsoft Excel – including knowing how to sum a column of numbers, hide and display columns and rows, do custom sorts and filters, and average a column of numbers
• Significant experience with Adobe Acrobat Professional – including the ability to rearrange pages, link to other PDF's and websites, manage passwords/security, insert pages, create signature stamps, add footers and headers, create bookmarks, and combine several PDFs into a single portfolio
• Significant experience with Microsoft PowerPoint – including inserting pictures and video, creating templates, rearranging slides
• Knowledge of the Federal Court ECF system and experience filing pleadings
• Knowledge of the Indiana electronic court filing system
• Experience with a server-based document management system - I-Manage/File Site would be a plus
• Able to type from dictation

Qualifications

• Knowledge of the Federal Court ECF system and experience filing pleadings
• Knowledge of the Indiana electronic court filing system
• Experience with a server-based document management system - I-Manage/File Site would be a plus
• Able to type from dictation

Skills

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Excel
• Adobe Acrobat Professional
• Microsoft PowerPoint

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

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Schedule

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