Job Description

Job Title: Legal Assistant

Location: Century City, CA

Position Type: Full-Time

Compensation: 90k - 110k

Position Summary:

LHH is working with a top international law firm in their search for a legal assistant to join their transactional practice group and support foreign clients. This role requires professional fluency in Mandarin, as you will be responsible for translating legal documents and possibly corresponding with foreign clients. We are open to varying levels of professional experience, so long as the there is an interest and willingness to learn a transactional legal work.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Translate legal documents and correspond with foreign clients
• Schedule court appearances, depositions, arbitrations, mediations, client meetings, and conference calls
• Arrange business itineraries and coordinate travel arrangements for attorneys
• Process travel reimbursements and maintain calendars and due dates for attorneys
• Create, edit, proofread, and process legal documents, including correspondence, memoranda, closing documents, pleadings, and other practice-specific documents
• Maintain legal files (both paper and electronic) and organize documents in designated order
• Update case information, scan, and organize legal files
• Manage document deliveries and track final executed documentation
• Receive and evaluate telephone calls for supported attorneys, fielding calls and conveying messages as necessary
• Communicate with clients, opposing counsel, courts, and liaisons
• Collaborate with Administrative Support Coordinators, Paralegals, and other legal support team members
• Attend team strategy meetings
• Utilize firm resources effectively to achieve desired results
• Assist with overflow work and other special projects as assigned

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong understanding of laws as they relate to individuals, partnerships, and corporations
• Proficiency with rules for court document filings
• Ability to comprehend a variety of legal court documents, including complaints, answers, rulings, judgments, affidavits, motions, appeals, table of contents/authorities, subpoenas, court dockets, reports, memos, and correspondence
• Recognize and maintain confidential, sensitive, and proprietary information
• Ability to work under pressure to meet strict deadlines

Qualifications & Prior Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience preferred
• Minimum of 2 years of experience as a legal secretary, working in a business law practice with exposure to litigation
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook, as well as document management and other office technologies
• Must be professionally fluent in Mandarin

Compensation:

• The expected pay range for this position is $90,000.00 to $110,000.00, based on qualifications and experience. Full-time employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, health insurance with an optional HSA, short-term disability, long-term disability, dental insurance, vision care, life insurance, Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, 401K, vacation, sick time, and an employee assistance program. Additional voluntary programs may include voluntary accident insurance, voluntary life, voluntary disability, voluntary long-term care, voluntary critical illness and cancer insurance, and pet insurance. Commuter and Transit programs may also be available in certain markets.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment, in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.

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