Legal Assistant

Beacon Hill; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Legal is seeking a Legal Administrative Assistant to support a busy medical malpractice team in St. Louis, MO. The role requires strong litigation support, attention to detail, and proven experience managing filings, deadlines, and attorney workflow.

You will provide litigation and administrative support to attorneys, manage case files and the firm’s document management system, assist with billing and calendaring, and help prepare exhibits and pleadings for trials.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of legal administrative or litigation support experience.
• Experience managing filings, deadlines and attorney workflow.
• Strong e-filing, document management and calendaring skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide litigation and administrative support to attorneys, including filing documents in Missouri and Illinois state and federal courts.
• Manage case files within the firm’s document management system, including saving, naming, organizing, and maintaining pleadings, exhibits, and correspondence.
• Assist with billing-related tasks, invoice submission, calendaring, conflict checks, deadline tracking, and other practice-management needs.
• Support trial and case preparation as needed, including preparing exhibits and pleadings, assisting with limited billable work, and rotating light receptionist coverage approximately once per week.

Skills

Litigation support

E-filing

Document management

Calendaring

Job description

Salary: USD55000 - USD70000 per year

Beacon Hill Legal is seeking a Legal Administrative Assistant to support a busy medical malpractice team. This role is ideal for someone with strong litigation support skills, attention to detail, and experience managing filings, documents, deadlines, and attorney workflow.

• Provide litigation and administrative support to attorneys, including preparing, proofreading, organizing, and filing legal documents in Missouri and Illinois state and federal courts.
• Manage case files within the firm’s document management system, including saving, naming, organizing, and maintaining pleadings, exhibits, correspondence, and other litigation materials.
• Assist with billing-related tasks, invoice submission, calendaring, conflict checks, deadline tracking, and other practice-management needs.
• Support trial and case preparation as needed, including preparing exhibits and pleadings, assisting with limited billable work, and rotating light receptionist coverage approximately once per week.

Qualifications:3+ years of legal administrative assistant or litigation support experience, preferably within defense litigation or medical malpractice, with strong e-filing, document management, calendaring, and organizational skills.