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Litigation Legal Assistant
Cleveland, OH
$75,000-$95,000
The Litigation Legal Assistant will provide high-level litigation and administrative support to attorneys, paralegals, and legal professionals across multiple practice groups. The ideal candidate is a proactive, detail-oriented legal professional with extensive experience supporting litigation matters and advanced document formatting skills.
Litigation Legal Assistant Responsibilities:
Litigation Legal Assistant Requirements:
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Hunter International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity and affirmative action regulations.
Cleveland, OH
$75,000-$95,000
The Litigation Legal Assistant will provide high-level litigation and administrative support to attorneys, paralegals, and legal professionals across multiple practice groups. The ideal candidate is a proactive, detail-oriented legal professional with extensive experience supporting litigation matters and advanced document formatting skills.
Litigation Legal Assistant Responsibilities:
- Provide comprehensive administrative and litigation support to attorneys and legal staff.
- Draft, edit, proofread, and format complex legal documents, correspondence, pleadings, and other litigation materials.
- Perform advanced Microsoft Word document formatting, including applying and modifying styles, numbering schemes, templates, and other complex formatting functions.
- Create and update tables of contents and tables of authorities.
- Compare and reconcile document versions.
- Enter attorney time and prepare expense reports.
- Process new matter intake requests and maintain accurate case information.
- Coordinate attorney travel arrangements and scheduling.
- Assist with trial, deposition, arbitration, and hearing preparation.
- Perform data entry and maintain electronic case files.
- Collaborate with attorneys, paralegals, and other departments to ensure timely completion of assignments.
- Prioritize multiple deadlines while delivering high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
Litigation Legal Assistant Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience as a Litigation Legal Assistant, Legal Secretary, Paralegal, or in another legal support role focused on litigation.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint).
- Extensive experience formatting complex legal documents.
- Excellent grammar, proofreading, and written communication skills.
- Strong organizational, time management, and multitasking abilities.
- Outstanding interpersonal and customer service skills.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team environment.
- Experience with PDF editing software (such as Kofax or similar).
- Experience using document management systems (such as NetDocuments or similar).
- Familiarity with legal time entry software (such as Aderant or similar).
- Experience supporting California litigation matters is a plus.
- Prior experience in a legal word processing or document specialist role is preferred.
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Hunter International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity and affirmative action regulations.
