Legal Administrative Assistant, Senior Support

Southern California Edison (SCE); Rosemead (CA); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison is seeking a Legal Administrative Assistant, Senior Support to provide advanced administrative and secretarial support to attorneys in litigation, transactional and regulatory practice areas. You will help manage calendars, prepare briefs and court filings, and coordinate hearings and e‑filings across multiple jurisdictions.

This hybrid role requires residing in California and offers opportunities to work with experienced lawyers, support corporate transactional

Qualifications

• Five+ years of experience drafting corporate transactional documents and court filings.
• Experience with regulatory filings and complex legal documents.
• Strong editing and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Aid in corporate filings with SEC, CPUC, FERC, and court filings.
• Schedule hearings, depositions, and court appearances; maintain calendars.
• Prepare transactional documents, briefs, pleadings, memoranda, settlement agreements, contracts and other legal documents.
• File legal documents with courts, commissions, or other agencies.
• Coordinate e-filing with state and federal courts and organize case files.

Skills

Advanced legal administration

Oral & written communication

PowerPoint presentations

Job description

Legal Administrative Assistant, Senior Support

Join the Clean Energy Revolution. As a Legal Administrative Assistant, Senior Support at Southern California Edison, you will provide advanced administrative and secretarial support to attorneys in litigation, transactional and regulatory practice areas. Your work will help power the planet by reducing emissions and creating cleaner air.

Responsibilities

• Aids in corporate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, regulatory filings with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and federal and state court filings.
• Handles highly confidential and sensitive information while performing a wide variety of complex legal administrative tasks, including scheduling hearings, depositions, and court appearances, maintaining calendars and coordinating meetings.
• Aids in preparing corporate transactional documents, briefs, pleadings, memoranda, settlement agreements, contracts, court filings, regulatory filings, and other legal documents.
• Files legal documents with courts, commissions, or other governmental agencies.
• Prepares and organizes legal documents, summons, complaints, and pleadings and coordinates court filings, including e‑filing, with state and federal courts.
• Manages and maintains databases and electronic files for major proceedings.
• Manages multiple projects and calendars, including scheduling and coordinating meetings and conference calls for project and management staff.
• Prepares outside counsel engagement packages, budgets and tracks outside counsel invoices to ensure budget control for extensive multi‑jurisdictional legal practice.
• Assists in preparing and e‑filing pleadings, legal documents and administrative agency reports.
• Helps with case files, evidence books and hearing preparation including witness lists, discovery and exhibits.
• Ensures protection of the Company’s physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and manages private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records and other highly sensitive information with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience preparing corporate transactional documents, briefs, pleadings, memoranda, settlement agreements, contracts, court filings, regulatory filings and other legal documents.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience performing advanced administrative and legal secretarial functions for a private law firm or corporate legal department.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including editing for proper sentence structure, grammar, spelling and punctuation.
• Knowledge of current federal and state court rules.
• Demonstrated experience creating presentations with PowerPoint.

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more.
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.
• This position requires testing and applicants who are identified to continue through the selection process will be invited to test via email. Reference our Information Guides for the following tests: EEI BCAB (Test #5206). Candidates who have previously passed these assessment(s), in some cases, may not need to retest again for this position.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

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