Legal Assistant

ITAC Solutions; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

CLE tracking

Team-based support

Stability and growth

Job summary

ITAC Solutions seeks a Senior Legal Assistant in Jackson, MS to support attorneys across multiple practice areas. You will prepare and format legal documents, draft pleadings, and ensure meticulous calendar management to meet deadlines.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years of legal assistant experience, advanced Word skills (TOC/TOA/cross-references/Track Changes), and enjoy mentoring teammates while handling transcription and bar admissions/tracking CLE.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of legal assistant experience in document prep, calendaring, deadlines, and attorney support across practice areas.
• Advanced Word skills for legal documents (TOC/TOA/cross-references/Track Changes).
• Team-based attorney support model experience and mentoring ability.
• Experience transcribing from dictation or audio; managing bar and court admissions and CLE tracking.

Responsibilities

• Prepare legal documents, memoranda, and correspondence from draft or dictated text.
• Generate pleadings and briefs with advanced Word formatting: TOC, TOA, cross-references, and Track Changes.
• Create, edit, format, and proofread documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• Convert PDF files to Word and reformat as needed.
• Manage workflow and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines.
• Calendar critical deadlines and ensure accurate date calculations.
• Mentor less experienced legal assistants.

Skills

Word processing

Legal drafting

Calendar management

Mentoring

Transcription

Bar admissions

Tools

Microsoft Word

Job description

Senior Legal Assistant - Jackson, MS
Behind every flawless brief, met deadline, and courtroom-ready filing at a nationally recognized law firm is someone holding it all together, and that's who our client needs. This is a chance to be the steady hand attorneys across multiple practice areas rely on, and the mentor junior teammates look up to.

Benefits & Extras:

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• CLE tracking and in-house professional development
• Team-based support model, not a traditional one-to-one setup
• Stability and growth at a nationally recognized firm

Compensation: Competitive, commensurate with experience

What You'll Be Doing:

• Prepare legal documents, memoranda, and correspondence from draft or dictated text
• Generate pleadings and briefs with advanced Word formatting: TOC, TOA, cross-references, and Track Changes
• Create, edit, format, and proofread documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
• Convert PDF files to Word, cleaning up and reformatting as needed
• Manage workflow and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines
• Calendar critical deadlines and ensure accurate date calculations
• Mentor less experienced legal assistants

What You'll Need to be Considered:

• 4+ years of legal assistant experience - must have a strong foundation in legal document preparation, calendaring, deadline management, and attorney support across one or more practice areas
• Advanced Word skills for legal documents, including TOC, TOA, cross-references, and Track Changes
• Comfortable in a team-based attorney support model, not a traditional one-to-one setup
• Genuinely enjoys mentoring less experienced teammates
• Experience transcribing from dictation or audio recordings
• Comfortable managing bar and court admissions and tracking attorney CLE