Corporate Legal Assistant

Wright-Patt Credit Union Inc.; Beavercreek (OH); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Wright-Patt Credit Union Inc. is seeking a Corporate Legal Assistant to provide on-site administrative support to the Legal Department. The role involves handling clerical tasks, record keeping, file maintenance, and assisting attorneys to ensure timely completion of tasks.

Responsibilities include preparing documents, coordinating meetings and travel, conducting research, and supporting department and enterprise projects while ensuring compliance with policies and controls.

Qualifications

• Provides administrative support to the Legal Department.
• Manages records, file maintenance, and document preparation.
• Coordinates meetings, travel, and events as required.
• Research and drafting support with strong writing and verbal skills.

Responsibilities

• Receives and supports the Legal Department’s handling of incoming legal work. Provides a wide range of support to the Legal Department attorneys, including preparing and proofing correspondence and legal documents, coordinating communications, researching, and assisting with projects.
• Supports corporate legal matters by preparing meeting materials, maintaining files, tracking responses to legal requests, and organizing documents.
• Provides general routine legal administrative support and back up for the Credit Union and the attorneys as needed.
• Assists with departmental and enterprise projects by gathering information, maintaining documentation, tracking assignments, coordinating meetings, and conducting research.
• Ensures compliance with policies, procedures, risk mitigations, and operating controls; reports gaps to leadership.

Job description

The Corporate Legal Assistant provides daily, on-site, clerical, and administrative support to the Legal Department assisting with general administrative support, departmental record keeping, and file maintenance. The Corporate Legal Assistant works with the Legal Department attorneys to ensure tasks are completed accurately and in a timely manner, including, without limitation, departmental administrative tasks, record keeping, and corporate and litigation file maintenance. This position requires solid organizational, written and verbal communication, and research skills.

• 1) Receives and supports the Legal Department’s handling of incoming legal work. Provides a wide range of support to the Legal Department attorneys. This may include but is not limited to: preparing and proofing correspondence, legal documents and reports, coordinate communications and respond to routine inquiries, creating and preparing presentations, making travel, meeting and event arrangements, coordinating special events and assist with projects, conducting research, organizing files and records, and other duties as assigned. Administers Legal Department invoices, including processing, tracking, maintaining records, and serving as liaison with Accounts Payable and outside vendors. (50%)
• 2) Supports the Legal Department’s handling of corporate legal matters. This may include, but is not limited to, preparing meeting materials, record keeping, collecting and tracking responses to legal requests, coordinating meetings, organizing and maintaining legal files and records, preparing routine legal forms and templates, and other duties as assigned. (30%)
• 3) Provides general routine legal administrative support and back up for the Credit Union, and the attorneys within the Legal Department as needed. (10%)
• 4) Assists with departmental and enterprise projects by gathering information, maintaining documentation, tracking assignments, coordinating meetings, and conducting research, and providing other high-level corporate support. (5%)
• 5) Ensures proper policies, procedures, risk mitigation activities, and operating controls are followed. Reports gaps in policies, procedures, and operating controls to leadership to ensure member impact and risk is mitigated. (5%)