Legal Assistant - Litigation/Commercial

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Job Purpose and Impact

The Legal Assistant will make independent decisions on litigation tasks and provide support for legal processes, including due diligence, litigation support, and other legal-related activities. They will assist in planning, organizing, and scheduling more complex administrative support. In this role, you will coordinate, integrate, and implement assigned administrative or staff functions.

Key Accountabilities

• Apply detailed knowledge of litigation tasks to perform moderately complex administrative processes.
• Manage Matter Reporting processes to General Counsel, CFO, Board and Auditors
• Schedule and coordinate meeting agendas, materials, minutes, virtual technology, and catering requests.
• Solicit, collect and organize documentation and data for legal processes to perform moderately complex data entry into one or more systems, including scanning, copying, mailings and obtaining physical/wet signatures, notarization, etc.
• Plans, coordinates and confirms logistics for more complex meetings and travel along with deposition and witness scheduling.
• Provide assistance and training to lower-level employees.
• Handle complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience supporting litigation or legal operations, preferably in commercial litigation or complex dispute environments.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CoPilot)
• High level of discretion and ability to manage confidential information.

• Experience supporting in-house legal departments or law firms.
• Familiarity with litigation management, document management, contract lifecycle management (CLM), and e-billing platforms.
• Strong understanding of litigation lifecycle and court procedures.