Legal Practice Assistant (Seattle)

Fenwick is seeking a Legal Practice Assistant who will perform a variety of secretarial and administrative tasks to support assigned attorneys and paralegals, providing exceptional customer service and support while consistently producing a high volume and quality work product to meet the needs of the Firm and its clients.

Requirements

• Maintain and foster positive and collaborative working relationship with assigned Practice Group Partners/Associates/Paralegals, Firm clients, Administrative Departments, and external vendors.
• Responsible for producing high quality and error free work product in a timely manner.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of efficiencies and teamwork with the local and firmwide secretarial teams.
• Shared responsibility across offices for coverage of attorneys and paralegals.
• Possess a solid understanding of the litigation process:
• Proficient in managing all aspects of the discovery process, including drafting, formatting, and proofreading discovery requests and responses, organizing documents, and coordinating with attorneys, clients, and opposing counsel to ensure timely and accurate production of materials.
• Use legal resources effectively, including court websites, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, California Code of Civil Procedure, California Rules of Courts, Lexis-Nexis, and Westlaw for research, case law retrieval, and forms access.
• Generate and troubleshoot Table of Contents and Table of Authorities using Best Authority while maintaining proficiency with Blue Book and state citation styles.
• Responsible for compiling and coordinating court filings to maintain client's internal file system updated in iManage/Propel.
• Ability to convert documents from PDF to Word/vice versa, insert/remove pages, bookmark, redact documents and enable OCR formatting for searching capabilities.
• Perform a variety of administrative functions including preparing check requests, invoices and reimbursements.
• Responsible for managing and keeping assigned attorney’s calendar updated with relevant information, i.e., client meetings, court deadlines, etc.
• Schedule messengers, process servers and other vendors for pick-up, delivery or service of documents.
• Knowledge of timekeeping protocols; assist with entering attorney time, as necessary.
• Acquire knowledge and understanding of the Firm’s resources, departmental schedules, and protocols to effectively delegate and ensure completion of assigned tasks.
• Ability to be flexible and available to work overtime as necessary.
• Perform other tasks as assigned.

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Life Insurance
• Health Savings Accounts
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Wellbeing