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The Oneil Search Group

Legal Practice Assistant Corporate

The Oneil Search Group, New York, New York, us, 10261

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The Legal Practice Assistant provides secretarial support to attorneys and other professional personnel. Works as a team member with other secretaries to balance workload.

Responsibilities Essential Functions:

Provides Secretarial Support to Attorneys in a particular practice or department, with responsibilities including, but not limited, to:

Screens and routes telephone calls, reviews and transcribes voicemails, responds to routine inquiries

Opens, sorts and processes attorney mail

Manages attorney emails in Outlook which includes reviewing, drafting, sending and printing emails

Manages Outlook calendar on behalf of attorneys

Creates and maintains client contacts in Outlook and InterAction

Prepares and distributes correspondence and other documents using excellent proofreading and formatting skills with the ability to offer support and suggestions relative to grammar, spelling and punctuation

Manages projects and coordinates distribution with the ability to use firm resources to delegate tasks in the successful completion of such projects; interacts with other departments and facets of the office, when appropriate, to coordinate larger scale projects (such as word processing and duplicating)

Schedules and coordinates meetings and/or conferences, interacts with facilities and catering and manages all other details of the meeting

Coordinates conflict check and new matter memo process

Coordinates travel arrangements and prepares expense reports

Completes time entry on behalf of attorneys

Organizes and maintains legal correspondence and document files and utilizes Legal Key

Manages review and distribution of draft and final client bills which includes communication with attorneys and accounting representative relative to completion of bill

Completes various other assigned administrative tasks such as photocopying, printing, scan documents to PDF and save to FileSite, faxes, creating labels, etc.

Performs accurately and in a timely fashion all word processing functions in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and exhibits the ability to learn new programs and processes quickly and efficiently

Work with Supervisor to coordinate overflow work, arrange desk coverage and escalat items/issues that need immediate attention and/or resolution

Participation in projects and/or pilot programs as requested

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