Legal Assistant - MI

Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A.; United States; Remote; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A. seeks an experienced Legal Assistant for its fast-paced litigation group. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of civil defense support, strong organization, and attention to detail.

Remote options are available, with a flexible work environment to accommodate schedules and client deadlines. Responsibilities include filing pleadings, docketing, preparing correspondence, and assisting attorneys with depositions and scheduling, all while maintaining client

Qualifications

• 3+ years of prior legal assistant experience supporting litigators in civil defense.
• MI State and Federal Court filing including E-Filing experience required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Requires critical thinking, superior communication and organizational skills, decisive judgment, high attention to detail, and ability to work with minimal supervision.
• High School Diploma or its equivalent required.

Responsibilities

• Filing and circulation of pleadings in state and federal court.
• Maintain docketing for attorneys and assist with calculating court and discovery deadlines.
• Provide administrative support: processing invoices, coordinating depositions, and ensuring client guidelines.
• Open new files by collecting preliminary documents and information from clients.
• Assist with managing schedules, travel, meetings, and attorney calendars.
• Prepare correspondence and other written documents under attorney direction.
• Prepare tracking and disposition of subpoenas or information requests.
• Ensure organization of files and monitor issues requiring attorney involvement.

Skills

Litigation support

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About the role

• The ideal candidate will have litigation experience, attention to detail, and have the desire to work in a fast-paced litigation group. Strong organizational skills a must. This is a great opportunity for candidates with a desire to work in a new, dynamic, growing office of a national firm. Flexible work environment and remote options available.

What you’ll do

• Filing and circulation of pleadings in both state and federal court.
• Maintain docketing for attorneys including assisting with calculation of court and discovery deadlines in accordance with state and federal rules.
• Provide administrative support to attorneys assisting with processing invoices, coordinating scheduling of depositions, and ensuring compliance with client preferences and guidelines.
• Assist with opening new files including assisting with collection of preliminary documents and information from clients and obtaining all necessary information from clients to open new files.
• Assist attorneys with management of schedules including providing support coordinating travel, assisting with scheduling meetings, and managing attorney schedules.
• Under attorney direction prepare correspondence and other written documents.
• Prepare and handle tracking and disposition of subpoenas or other requests for information.
• Assure organization of files includingmaintenance and management.
• Monitor files and elevate issues requiring attorney involvement.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of prior legal assistant experience supportinglitigators incivil defense in a high-volume, fast-paced law firm environment.
• MI State and Federal Court filing including E-Filing experience required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, Word, Power Point and Outlook required.
• Requires critical thinking skills, superior communication and organizational skills, decisive judgment, high attention to detail, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• High School Diploma or its equivalent required.

#LI-JR1