Legal Assistant

Egreenservices; Duluth (MN); On-site; USD 40,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

Illinois Tool Works in Duluth, MN is seeking a Legal Assistant who can represent the company with vendors, partners, and customers. The role emphasizes clear handoffs, timely reporting, and applying legal citation practices to daily operations.

The candidate should balance accuracy with pace, mentoring junior teammates and thriving in a deadline-driven setting. A collaborative mindset across teams and a willingness to document decisions are valued attributes.

Qualifications

• Must have strong legal writing and communication skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to mentor or support junior teammates.
• Aptitude for applying legal citation rules to memoranda and contracts.
• Demonstrated communication skills for professional emails and reports.
• Comfortable collaborating across teams from engineering to marketing.

Responsibilities

• Represent Illinois Tool Works professionally with vendors, partners, and customers.
• Coordinate and hand off work clearly so others don’t need to ask twice.
• Drive measurable improvements within your area of responsibility.
• Prepare reports, summaries, and presentations for leadership review.
• Apply Cultural Awareness and Legal Citation to solve day-to-day challenges.

Skills

Legal writing

Mentorship

Legal citations

Communication tone

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Illinois Tool Works is expanding its general team and needs a Legal Assistant who brings both expertise and energy. Cut to the chase and you get $40,000 - $59,000, a general mandate, and Illinois Tool Works colleagues who treat ownership as the default.

Key Responsibilities

• Represent Illinois Tool Works professionally with vendors, partners, and customers
• Hand off Teamwork work clean enough that nobody has to ask twice
• Drive measurable improvements within your area of responsibility
• Prepare reports, summaries, and presentations for review by leadership
• Apply Cultural Awareness and Legal Citation to solve day-to-day operational challenges

What You'll Bring

• A writer's ear for tone in a high-stakes email
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support junior teammates
• Proven aptitude for Legal Citation, ideally near Duluth, MN
• Experience thriving in an ambitious, deadline-driven setting like Illinois Tool Works
• Demonstrated ability to teach what you know to someone greener
• Cross-functional ease, from Securities Law engineers to Teamwork marketers

Illinois Tool Works is a heads-down-and-happy engineering shop in Duluth, MN where Legal Memoranda and Contract Review are treated as the same discipline. We default to documenting decisions so MN and remote teammates stay equally in the loop.

Our Illinois Tool Works offer leans on substance: $40,000 - $59,000, mentorship, benefits, and a flexible schedule that respects Duluth life.

As of right now, Illinois Tool Works is still reading every resume that lands here.