Legal Administrative Assistant

Lawyers On Demand; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global legal services company as a Legal Administrative Assistant in San Francisco. This role provides critical support to attorneys, involving administrative duties, document management, and ensuring efficient operations in a dynamic environment. As part of a collaborative team, you'll enhance your legal career while working with top-tier clients across industries.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of legal experience; litigation experience required.
• Proficient in legal technology platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and litigation support to attorneys.
• Draft, edit, and format legal documents.
• Coordinate filings in state and federal courts.

Skills

Communication

Attention to Detail

Critical Thinking

Time Management

Education

High school diploma

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

iManage

MS Office

InTapp

Chrome River

Job description

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Employment Type: Temporary/Contract | Monday – Friday: Full-Time (4 days onsite/weekly) | Hybrid/Onsite: San Francisco, CA | Duration: ASAP-June (w/ potential extension to July) | Start Date: Immediately | Pay: $40 hourly

Professional Experience

Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio Company, is one of the largest and fastest growing global legal services businesses, and as a ‘new law’ pioneer, we continue to lead the market we’ve created.

With a global team of over 600 attorneys and consultants working across our secondments, legal advisory services, and legal operations & tech solutions, we want you to be a part of our exciting journey!

Who are we looking for?

We have a strong pipeline of exciting and career-enhancing full-time and part-time assignments across the Biotech, Marketing, Fintech, Consumer Goods, Pharma and Technology sectors, and we're interested in hearing from Legal Administrative Assistant to join us and commence their LOD journey.

To join us, you will:

• Need a high school diploma required; bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Need to have a minimum of 5 years of prior legal experience; litigation experience required.
• Proficient in legal technology platforms including iManage, MS Office, InTapp, InTapp Time, 3E, and Chrome River.
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Possess exceptional attention to detail and ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
• Possess proven ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and manage a high-volume workload.
• Possess a professional demeanor with excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Possess the ability to maintain and safeguard confidential information with integrity.
• Possess strong critical thinking, judgment, and decision-making skills under pressure.
• Possess proven demonstrated adaptability with new tools, technologies, and office equipment.

Key Responsibilities for this role:

• Provide administrative and litigation support to attorneys, including calendar management, travel coordination, and expense processing.
• Draft, edit, and format legal documents (e.g., briefs, motions, subpoenas) and coordinate filings in state and federal courts, including e-filings.
• Organize and manage legal records and client files in both physical and electronic formats; ensure timely retrieval and archiving.
• Enter and track attorney’s time daily; assist with billing preparation to meet monthly deadlines.
• Maintain confidentiality and professionalism while communicating with clients, staff, and external parties.

No assignment or day is ever the same. Our clients are large national and international companies. This is a great opportunity to diversify your experience and bolster your CV through a career with LOD. These assignments are of varied durations, ranging anywhere from 3-6 months initially or long term.

What sets us apart?

People join us for a range of reasons - the life of a legal professional like no other.

• CV-enhancing work with global brands: We provide our people with varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with world-class global brands, allowing them to take control of their career and diversify their experience across a range of industries.
• No limits: We’ve helped open doors, break glass ceilings, facilitate the transition from private practice to in-house, and develop career pathways to become a GC. Whatever direction you want to take your career, we can help you get there.
• You call the shots: We take work-life balance pretty seriously. You can work on-site with our clients or remotely, undertake full-time or part-time assignments, or assignments that are for set months of a year – it's your choice!
• You’re never on your own: Throughout your LOD career, you’ll become part of a community. You’ll be supported by your LOD colleagues and our HQ team, LOD social events, and receive training opportunities to assist in your ongoing growth and development.
• Our Ways Of Working help shape who we are and what we do: we deliver, we are creative, we are inclusive, we care & collaborate, and we are trusted.
• We’re global: LOD can provide you with local, interstate and international working opportunities.

LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities to join us so we can do great things together.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Legal, General Business, and Other

• Industries

  Legal Services

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