Professional Alternatives is hiring: Legal Secretary – Appellate (Houston) in Ho

Overview

Job ID#: 30635 Downtown Texas based client assing a legal assistant to support litigation team with a focus on appellate work.

Duties

• Assisting attorneys with litigation/appellate matters, and handling duties such as attorney phone calls & messages
• Time entry and billing
• Schedule travel and meetings
• Communicatewith clients
• Manage electronic documents/emailsand distribution of correspondence and legal documents.

Must have skills

• Able to manage multiple concurrent projects
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Word and Outlook.
• Working knowledge of legal documents, formatting, table of contents, styles, track changes, inserting and labeling pdf documents and inserting into documents and converting pdf documents to Word.
• Experience working with a document management system (iManage experience a plus).
• Experience opening files and running conflict checks
• Knowledge on how to edit & correct brief tables (authorities & contents)
• Experience consolidating PDF documents for creating brief appendices
• Experience filing in both the Texas state court and the federal state court using Pacer