Legal Assistant Paralegal

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP; New York (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP in New York City is seeking a Legal Assistant/Paralegal with 2–3 years of legal experience to support litigation matters in a fast-paced environment. The role requires excellent organizational, communication, and administrative skills, plus strong MS Office proficiency.

You will prepare and proofread documents, conduct legal research, and manage electronic files for efficient retrieval.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree; 2–3 years of relevant experience.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and administrative skills are required.
• Excellent computer skills with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Responsibilities

• Prepare and proofread legal documents.
• Conduct legal and factual research.
• Electronic document review.
• Manage electronic documents for easy retrieval.
• Compose correspondence, memoranda, and drafts for attorney review.
• Maintain client and administrative files per Firm procedures.
• Preserve confidences and privileged communications of clients.
• Coordinate administrative support for trials, arbitrations or client meetings.
• Contribute to a team to accomplish related results as needed.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Administrative skills

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP is seeking a Legal Assistant/Paralegal to join our New York City office. BSF employees have the opportunity to work on high-profile, cutting-edge matters alongside leading lawyers. The ideal candidate will have 2-3 years experience in the legal field, ideally in litigation. The candidate needs to be comfortable working in fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and proofread legal documents.
• Conducting legal and factual research.
• Electronic document review.
• Manage electronic documents for easy retrieval.
• Compose correspondence, memoranda, and drafts of routine documents for attorney’s review.
• Maintain client and administrative files in accordance with Firm procedures – maintain current lists of files, account numbers, client names/addresses and other information as required.
• Preserve and protect the confidences and privileged communications of all clients.
• Coordinate administrative support for trials, arbitrations or client meetings.
• Contributes to a team to accomplish related results as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree; 2–3 years of relevant experience.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and administrative skills are required.
• Excellent computer skills are required. This includes experience with all Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with law, legal procedures, and protocols and/or experience as a legal assistant/paralegal are a plus.

Compensation

$85,000 - $90,000

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP is an equal opportunity employer, which does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin or ancestry, religion, age, sex, disability, medical condition, sexual preference or orientation, marital or familial status, veteran's status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations. The Firm's policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. It is the Firm’s policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and compensate the best qualified individuals based only upon relevant factors such as experience, work quality and professional attitude.