Legal Assistant (Remote)

MEM; Sedalia (MO); Remote; USD 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Missouri is seeking an Administrative Assistant to support lawyers with legal tasks, manage calendars, and maintain legal files. This role involves ensuring compliance and assisting with various administrative duties in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Health Plans: Medical, Dental, and Vision

Employer-Paid Life and Disability Benefits

Employee Wellness and Recognition Program

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

PTO and Holidays

401k Retirement Plan with employer match

Adoption Assistance

Tuition Assistance

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience as an administrative assistant, preferably in law office administration.

Responsibilities

• Assist lawyers with legal research, drafting documents, and client communication.
• Maintain legal files and attorney calendars, ensuring scheduling accuracy.
• Prepare Monthly Production Reports and ensure regulatory compliance.

Skills

Legal Research

Communication

Organization

Data Entry

Job description

Are you driven to keep people safe? That’s what we do every day at Missouri Employers Mutual.

We’ve created a casual, values-driven work culture that’s making a positive impact on the way people live and work. This is a place where you can grow with confidence — because that’s what safety and success really mean to us.

Job Purpose

Assist and provide support to lawyers with various tasks including conducting legal research, drafting and reviewing documents, communicating with clients, preparing for hearings, trials, and meetings, and organizing and maintaining files.

Responsibilities

• Assemble, prepare and maintain legal files; prepare Division forms and stipulations; prepare and deliver to attorneys outside and inside mail daily; forward legal mail to MEM claims staff daily; re-file files daily.
• Maintain calendar for all dockets and other legal appointments for attorneys; anticipate and bring scheduling conflicts to attorney’s attention.
• Assemble data and prepare Monthly Production Report.
• Provide general administrative assistance, such as maintaining the attorney's calendar and making travel arrangements.
• Enter accumulated data into appropriate computer system and assume responsibility for the accuracy of data recorded on various statistical reports or lists.
• Verify that information contained in Form 21s is correct in relation to Report of Injury and annotate any discrepancies for attorneys.
• Ensure regulatory compliance by producing comprehensive regulatory reports.
• Review and consolidate the information being reported and make sure it is accurate and timely.
• Draft and review correspondence.
• Communicate with clients, claims representatives, and witnesses to schedule meetings, interviews, and depositions.
• Develop and maintain excellent procedural or technical skills through participation in assessment and development activities, as well as training and coaching.
• Assist with preparation for hearings, trials, and meetings. Help manage and resolve billing issues with outside counsel.
• Provide high-level assistance to the CompLegal attorneys in supporting overall financial and strategic planning objectives, as well as administrative projects and reports.
• Analyze, assemble, and compile narrative and statistical information concerning CompLegal operations, including preparing monthly production reports.

Experience

2-5 years of experience as an administrative assistant (preferably law office administration), legal support experience, or equivalent.

Total Rewards

• Health Plans: Medical, Dental, and Vision, including fertility benefits, fully paid preventative care, and adult orthodontia.
• Fully Employer-Paid Life and Disability Benefits: Life Insurance (three times base salary), Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Short and Long-term Disability.
• Employee Wellness and Recognition Program with employer-paid incentives for employees and their spouses.
• Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care options.
• Health Savings Account with employer contribution.
• Time Away from Work: PTO, holidays, early releases, Volunteer Time Off, paid parental leave, and leave policies for marriage, bereavement, and jury duty.
• Employee Assistance Programs.
• 401k Retirement Plan with employer match and profit sharing.
• Adoption Assistance and Tuition Assistance.

Our home office is located in vibrant Columbia, Missouri — #6 in Livability’s 2019 Best Places to Live.