Legal Administrative Assistant

Lowe's Home Centers; Mooresville (NC); On-site; USD 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is seeking an experienced administrative professional to support the Legal Department in Mooresville, NC. This role partners with department leaders to keep operations running smoothly, manage schedules, prepare documents, and coordinate travel and events.

You'll handle confidential information, assist with budgets, onboarding, and vendor communications, while ensuring accurate reporting and timely execution in a fast-paced corporate environment.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement.
• 5 Years Experience as an administrative assistant supporting Sr level leaders.
• Experience supporting legal professionals in a firm or corporate legal department.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support needs of Legal Department Leadership up to and including responsibility for routing or answering routine correspondence, preparing communication and other documents, developing presentation materials using graphics and graphs and other reporting duties.
• Proactively maintain and manage calendars for one or multiple Legal Department leaders. Ensures that leader(s) are prepared with supporting materials and detailed information for day-to-day operations and meetings.
• Act as the contact person for internal and external customers and uses professional judgment to respond to requests; may communicate on behalf of the leaders
• Produce a wide variety of routine and complex documents, reports, presentations, and correspondence using advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite with minimal direction from the Supervisor; creates and utilizes systems to efficiently organize and protect sensitive data and legal documents.
• Work with and manages confidential and sensitive information and exercises discretion concerning its dissemination
• Coordinate and manage special events, including scheduling dates, sending invitations, providing logistical support, catering, ordering supplies and materials
• Assist with department budget or expense reports; helps maintain compliance; may perform some analysis or make projections about department budgets; produces spreadsheet reports as requested; may assist in the development of budgets
• Collaborate with the leaders to ensures excellent onboarding experience for new employees within the scope of their business unit, up to and including arranging for an effective workspace and tools critical for their new role.
• Coordinate all aspects of the leadership travel, including flight, hotel, rental car, itinerary, etc., and serves as contact person during the trip, proactively prepares materials (reports, binders, itineraries, passports, etc) needed for a successful and productive trip
• Consistently plans ahead, manages time effectively, coordinates project information and materials for easy accessibility and delegates responsibilities when appropriate.
• Complete internet research and / or uses internal resources to find solutions to daily problems.
• Conduct directed legal research using available public and private search tools, including Westlaw, and organizes results to assist attorneys with legal projects.
• Utilize billing and payable systems to ensure timely recording and payment of invoices and utilizes reporting tools within those systems to develop reporting on legal spend.
• Actively manages documents and data for legal matters through the use of matter management systems and creates reports using query tools for those systems.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the use of document management systems to ensure efficient document collaboration across the Department.
• Coordinate with Legal Operations to ensure consistency across the Department and compliance with internal process and policy.

Skills

Administrative support

Legal department experience

Calendar management

Executive communication

Travel coordination

Education

High school diploma or GED

Bachelor’s degree

Notary Public Certification (NC)

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Westlaw

Billing systems

Matter management systems

Reporting tools

Job description

Do your Best Work in Mooresville

This position is based at our headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina. Our corporate office is a space where you can collaborate and do your best work. Take a walk, grab a bite (or a cup of coffee), work out or get a check-up - we invest in you so you can find your inspiration.

Your Impact

The primary purpose of this role is to enable effectiveness and productivity of leadership in the Legal Department and thereby the business unit, by providing varied and complex operations, administrative and logistical support. This individual operates as primary liaison with internal business partners and external customers or stakeholders, on behalf of Legal Department leadership.

What You Will Do

• Provide administrative support needs of Legal Department Leadership up to and including responsibility for routing or answering routine correspondence, preparing communication and other documents, developing presentation materials using graphics and graphs and other reporting duties. Must be able to transmit effective executive communication on behalf of Legal Department Leadership at the discretion of their leader and as appropriate.
• Proactively maintain and manage calendars for one or multiple Legal Department leaders. Ensures that leader(s) are prepared with supporting materials and detailed information for day-to-day operations and meetings.
• Act as the contact person for internal and external customers and uses professional judgment to respond to requests; may communicate on behalf of the leaders
• Produce a wide variety of routine and complex documents, reports, presentations, and correspondence using advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite with minimal direction from the Supervisor; creates and utilizes systems to efficiently organize and protect sensitive data and legal documents.
• Work with and manages confidential and sensitive information and exercises discretion concerning its dissemination
• Coordinate and manage special events, including scheduling dates, sending invitations, providing logistical support, catering, ordering supplies and materials
• Assist with department budget or expense reports; helps maintain compliance; may perform some analysis or make projections about department budgets; produces spreadsheet reports as requested; may assist in the development of budgets
• Collaborate with the leaders to ensures excellent onboarding experience for new employees within the scope of their business unit, up to and including arranging for an effective workspace and tools critical for their new role.
• Coordinate all aspects of the leadership travel, including flight, hotel, rental car, itinerary, etc., and serves as contact person during the trip, proactively prepares materials (reports, binders, itineraries, passports, etc) needed for a successful and productive trip
• Consistently plans ahead, manages time effectively, coordinates project information and materials for easy accessibility and delegates responsibilities when appropriate.
• Complete internet research and / or uses internal resources to find solutions to daily problems.
• Conduct directed legal research using available public and private search tools, including Westlaw, and organizes results to assist attorneys with legal projects.
• Utilize billing and payable systems to ensure timely recording and payment of invoices and utilizes reporting tools within those systems to develop reporting on legal spend.
• Actively manages documents and data for legal matters through the use of matter management systems and creates reports using query tools for those systems.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the use of document management systems to ensure efficient document collaboration across the Department.
• Coordinate with Legal Operations to ensure consistency across the Department and compliance with internal process and policy.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
• 5 Years Experience as an administrative assistant supporting Sr level leaders
• Experience supporting legal professionals in a firm or corporate legal department

Preferred Skills/Education

• Bachelor’s degree
• Notary Public Certification for the State of North Carolina

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE®100 home improvement company with total fiscal 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe’s employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540branches and 120distribution centers. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.