Legal Administrative Assistant

The role

The Legal Support Team consists of LAAs who support attorneys using workflow management software. This person will prepare legal documents, manage attorney calendars, and handle routine corporate matters.

What you will do

• Prepares correspondence, memoranda and other legal documents from written and oral drafts
• Creates, edits, formats, and proofreads documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
• Handles routine corporate matters such as formations and organization of documents
• Maintains closing files and assists with transaction closings
• Conducts due diligence non-legal research
• Establishes and maintains attorney calendar and case deadline reminder systems
• Schedules meetings and travel itineraries
• Processes bills and reviews and edits bills
• Processes new business requests by opening and closing matters
• Manages workflow of assigned tasks and projects

Required qualifications

• High school or equivalent
• Approximately three to five years on the job corporate transactional experience
• Ability to proofread and perform editing of routine law office correspondence and legal case matters
• Ability to transcribe legal documents, correspondence, and reports from rough draft or dictation
• Ability to organize and prioritize tasks
• Interpersonal skills to communicate and follow instructions effectively
• Exceptional technical skills and an advanced-level working knowledge of the MS Office Suite
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency using legal terminology
• Ability to work with little supervision
• Ability to work with a high volume of information
• Knowledge of Word, Outlook, iManage, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe PDF, Emburse, SOS Direct and SEC/EDGAR systems

Nice to have

• Ability and willingness to cross train across different legal departments within the firm

About the company

Barnes & Thornburg is committed to equal employment opportunity in both principle and as a matter of policy.