Litigation Legal Assistant

Patterson Real Bird & Rasmussen LLP | Native Law Group; Louisville (CO); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Patterson Real Bird & Rasmussen, LLP is a Boulder County, Colorado-based law firm seeking a Legal Assistant with 5+ years of litigation experience. The role supports attorneys, manages complex litigation tasks, drafts pleadings, and coordinates discovery and filing activities across tribal, federal, and state courts.

The position emphasizes teamwork, organization, and attention to detail. In-person work location in Louisville, CO with standard business hours and travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of litigation experience in a law firm.
• Bachelor’s Degree, Paralegal Certification or relevant work experience.
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills; ability and willingness to interact and communicate effectively with a variety of personalities.

Responsibilities

• Support and assist assigned attorneys and team members as needed, including work on complex litigation and appeals.
• Work on complex litigation cases in tribal, federal, and state trial and appellate courts.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and prioritize responsibilities.
• Excellent proofreading skills.
• Independently prepare initial drafts of discovery requests and responses, declarations, various motions, and other documents and pleadings.
• Compile and organize digital files, mediation binders, and trial notebooks and exhibits.

Skills

Litigation experience

Time management

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Team player

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Paralegal Certification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Adobe

NetDocuments

Clio software

Job description

Patterson Real Bird & Rasmussen, LLP is located in beautiful Boulder County, Colorado. Nestled near trails, parks and lakes, our Colorado office is in Louisville, Colorado. We are a fast-paced law firm with offices in Colorado, Washington D.C., and North Dakota serving American Indian tribes, tribal entities and individual tribal members across the United States.

We are looking for a Legal Assistant to join our amazing team of legal professionals. The ideal candidate must have at least 5 years of litigation experience who can multi-task and is willing to learn and work together as a team to best serve our clients. Strong organizational skills, time management, and attention to detail are a must for a candidate to be successful in this role.

Overall Responsibility

Support and assist assigned attorneys and support and assist other team members as needed, including work on complex litigation and appeals.

Responsibilities include

• Legal assistants work on complex litigation cases in tribal, federal, and state trial and appellate courts.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and prioritize responsibilities.
• Excellent proofreading skills.
• Skilled in legal writing with ability to independently prepare initial drafts of discovery requests and responses, declarations, various motions, and other commonly used documents and pleadings.
• Compile and organize digital files, mediation binders, and trial notebooks and exhibits.
• Review court rules in numerous courts to determine filing deadlines and court-specific formatting and filing requirements.
• File and serve pleadings, motions, and other documents with tribal, federal and state trial and appellate courts.
• Management of calendar and litigation deadlines in accordance with various jurisdictional Rules.
• Document management and coordination of documents for production as well as document review, redaction, organization, and summarization for purposes of discovery and depositions.
• Communicate with courts, clients, witnesses, experts, and/or opposing counsel as needed.
• Make travel arrangements and meeting plans.
• Expense reimbursements.
• Maintain attorney calendars, schedules and billing entries.
• Perform several other similar or related duties which may not be specifically included within this position description, but which are consistent with the general level of the responsibilities described.

Qualifications include

• 5+ years litigation experience in a law firm.
• Bachelor’s Degree, Paralegal Certification or relevant work experience.
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills; ability and willingness to interact and communicate effectively with a variety of personalities.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize with minimal oversight.
• Flexible, good judgment, discretion, and a strong work ethic.
• Team player.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe, NetDocuments - Clio software experience is a plus.

We offer competitive compensation commensurate with experience with benefits including health insurance, dental, vision, 401k contributions, and a comfortable work environment.

Work Location

In-Person

Work Hours

8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. MST, M-F