Litigation Legal Assistant

Buchalter; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K

Profit sharing

Full benefits

Job summary

Buchalter LLP seeks a Litigation Legal Assistant for their Salt Lake City office. The ideal applicant has a minimum of 5 years’ civil litigation experience and strong organizational, proofreading, and communication skills.

Responsibilities include formatting and finalizing pleadings, managing case files, scheduling, and ensuring timely filings with state and federal courts. The firm offers competitive salary and a full benefits package.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in civil litigation.
• Strong organizational and proofreading skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Format, proofread and finalize pleadings, discovery, and correspondence.
• Process and scan incoming mail; manage case files per Buchalter procedures.
• Schedule appointments/events in Outlook; meet deadlines and file documents with courts.

Skills

Civil litigation

Attention to detail

Communication

Tools

MS Word

Outlook

Adobe Acrobat

FileSite/iManage

Job description

We are seeking a Litigation Legal Assistant to support our Salt Lake City office. Applicant should have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in civil litigation.

Required skills for this position include: organizational skills, proofreading, technological, legal terminology, calendaring and administrative skills with strong attention to detail, excellent written and verbal communication skills, a thorough knowledge of filing/e-filing requirements in all Utah Courts, including Federal and Appellate Courts, a solid knowledge of the litigation process, including the ability to prioritize, multitask, and meet deadlines, and must be able to work independently and with a team. Applicant should have advanced experience with MS Word, Outlook and Adobe; experience with FileSite/iManage would be a plus but not required. Applicant must be punctual and dependable.

Job duties include: formatting, proofreading and finalizing all pleadings, discovery and correspondence, processing and scanning incoming mail, ability to maintain professional interaction with clients, attorneys, other office staff, opposing counsel, court reporters and court staff, open, maintain and close case files in accordance with Buchalter procedures, schedule appointments and events in Microsoft Outlook and ensure deadlines are met timely, serve and file pleadings with Utah State Courts and Federal Courts, serve discovery, and other legal documents, make attorneys’ travel arraignments, prepare expense reimbursements.

Buchalter LLP offers a competitive salary, 401K, profit sharing and a full benefits package.

Buchalter was founded based on principles of inclusivity. Our Firm’s commitment to reflecting and enhancing the rich diversity of the clients and communities we serve is more than eight decades strong. Buchalter’s diversity of attorneys and staff provides clients with a greater breadth of creative talent and alternative approaches, and enriches our firm’s collaborative, entrepreneurial and collegial environment, benefiting all. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting, we welcome the unique contributions that all candidates can bring in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.