Legal Administrative Assistant

Murtha Cullina LLP; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) and profit sharing

Paid leave programs

Commuter and parking benefits

Job summary

Harris Beach Murtha seeks a Legal Administrative Assistant to support attorneys in our Boston, MA - Federal Reserve office. The role involves preparing and filing court documents, managing calendars, coordinating depositions, and assisting with various office projects.

Ideal candidates have 3-5+ years of litigation admin or secretarial experience, strong proofreading, and proficiency with Word and Windows software. Hybrid schedule offered.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of litigation legal administrative or secretarial experience.
• Experience preparing, filing, and e-filing documents with various courts.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and other Windows-based software.
• Strong proofreading skills, including excellent spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• The ability to type correspondence, pleadings, memoranda, reports, and other legal documents from rough drafts.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and secretarial support to litigation attorneys.
• Prepare and file legal documents.
• Maintain calendars and files.
• Coordinate meetings and depositions.
• Assist with other office projects.
• File and e-file documents with various courts.
• Maintain attorneys' calendars and track important dates and deadlines.
• Schedule and coordinate depositions, conferences, meetings, and appointments.
• Screen telephone calls, transmit messages accurately, and communicate with courts and clients.
• Organize and maintain electronic and physical filing systems for attorneys.
• Make travel arrangements for attorneys.
• Proofread documents for grammatical, typographical, and spelling errors.
• Provide general clerical assistance with office projects.

Skills

Litigation support

Secretarial experience

Proofreading

Microsoft Word

E-filing

Tools

Windows-based software

Job description

Location: Boston, MA - Federal Reserve (Hybrid Work Schedule)

Do you have litigation support experience? Are you detail-oriented, organized, and motivated? Are you excited about the opportunity to join an innovative, growing law firm that has been successful for more than 165 years?

Role

Harris Beach Murtha is seeking a Legal Administrative Assistant to join our Boston, MA - Federal Reserve office. This talented individual will provide direct administrative support to attorneys in various practice groups. You will THRIVE in this role if you have:

• 3-5+ years of litigation legal administrative or secretarial experience
• Experience preparing, filing, and e-filing documents with various courts
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and other Windows-based software
• Strong proofreading skills, including excellent spelling, grammar, and punctuation
• The ability to type correspondence, pleadings, memoranda, reports, and other legal documents from rough drafts

Responsibilities

The Legal Administrative Assistant will be responsible for providing administrative and secretarial support to litigation attorneys, preparing and filing legal documents, maintaining calendars and files, coordinating meetings and depositions, and assisting with other office projects. Do you have the DRIVE and DESIRE to:

• File and e-file documents with various courts
• Maintain attorneys' calendars and track important dates and deadlines
• Schedule and coordinate depositions, conferences, meetings, and appointments
• Screen telephone calls, transmit messages accurately, and communicate with courts and clients
• Organize and maintain electronic and physical filing systems for attorneys
• Make travel arrangements for attorneys
• Proofread documents for grammatical, typographical, and spelling errors
• Provide general clerical assistance with office projects

Harris Beach Murtha Recognizes Everyone Has a Right To Be Included. You Will Be Successful In Your Career At The Firm If You

• Work effectively on a team and maintain a courteous, professional demeanor
• Take initiative and adapt to changes in workflow, processes, and procedures
• Believe in the firm’s core values: collaboration, inclusion, ingenuity, respect, integrity, and commitment
• Enjoy working with diverse personalities within various levels of the firm
• Are comfortable working a hybrid work schedule

Salary information will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position, geographic locations and weekly hours schedule. The anticipated weekly schedule for the Legal Administrative Assistant is 35 hours per week.

Boston, MA: $30.22 - $41.21/hour

Harris Beach Murtha offers a comprehensive benefits package that supports both professional and personal well-being. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurances; health savings and flexible spending account options; life and disability insurances; retirement plan including 401(k) and profit sharing; paid leave programs; employee assistance resources; commuter and parking benefits where applicable; and professional development opportunities. Eligibility for benefits is subject to applicable plan terms and firm policies.

Harris Beach Murtha is committed to an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from diverse candidates with varied background and skills, including military experience. Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About Harris Beach Murtha

Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP. A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha’s New York roots reach back to 1856 and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936. Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal.

The firm’s policy prohibiting unlawful discrimination applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, placement, assignment of duties, training, promotion, compensation & benefits and termination. It is the policy of Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC that all applicants and employees enjoy a positive, respectful and productive work environment, free from behavior, actions or language constituting unlawful harassment. Accordingly, harassment or discrimination of any kind based on an individual’s race or color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, carrier status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, creed, domestic violence victim status or any other legally protected status is strictly prohibited. Harris Beach Murtha complies with the provisions of the Human Rights Law, all other State and Federal statutory and constitutional non-discrimination provisions including non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.

The firm’s practice areas and industries served span appellate law, business litigation, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax, and trusts and estates.

The firm’s lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and Newark, New Jersey.