Legal Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

A skilled and experienced Legal Assistant to support a Shareholder & Vice President of our respected law firm in Lakeland, Florida. The ideal candidate will be proactive, organized, and capable of thriving in a fast-paced legal environment. This is a key role that requires a detail-oriented individual with outstanding communication and time management skills.

Responsibilities include but not limited to :

Administrative Support

• Calendar management : Calendaring and organizing committee & board meetings, scheduling appointments, client meetings and tracking deadlines.
• File Management : Organizing and maintaining client files, ensuring accurate recording-keeping from initial file set up to preparation for off-site storage.
• Document preparation : Typing, modifying, proofreading, and finalizing contracts, deeds, correspondence, etc.
• Receive, screen, and transfer incoming calls. Relay messages and updates between clients and attorney.
• Receive, review and respond to email messages regularly throughout the day.
• Process outgoing mail and sort incoming mail.
• Prepare conflict checks and set up initial consultations.
• Manage initial file set up including conflict checks, organizing paperwork and documents, and creating the physical file.
• Track attorney and client matters for daily time and billing purposes.
• Proofread, revise, disburse and organize draft monthly billing statements for review. Make attorney edits.
• Follow up with attorney on tasks and appointments.
• Communicate with clients via phone, by email and occasionally in person.
• Complete daily summary sheet for attorney.
• Ability to maintain client confidentiality and adhere to professional ethics.

As needed

Qualifications

Benefits

Additional Information

Pay Range / Salary : Approximately $40,000.00-$50,000.00 / annually, commensurate with experience.

Work Environment : Full-time, 40 hours, Monday-Friday, 8 : 00am–5 : 00pm, on-site in office setting.

Location : Lakeland, FL 33801

Company Description

Clark, Campbell, Lancaster, Workman, & Airth, P.A. has grown steadily as a result of our commitment to recruiting and retaining talented, hard-working, and caring attorneys and staff, to being dedicated to giving back to our community, to providing our clients with professional, timely, and quality legal services, and, generally, to provide excellent, responsive, and result-oriented services to our clients. Our firm's focus is on general business law, and our practice areas include Real Estate, Corporate Law, Commercial Litigation, Estate Planning, Elder Law, Medicaid Planning and Tax Law.

Company Description

Clark, Campbell, Lancaster, Workman, & Airth, P.A. has grown steadily as a result of our commitment to recruiting and retaining talented, hard-working, and caring attorneys and staff, to being dedicated to giving back to our community, to providing our clients with professional, timely, and quality legal services, and, generally, to provide excellent, responsive, and result-oriented services to our clients. Our firm's focus is on general business law, and our practice areas include Real Estate, Corporate Law, Commercial Litigation, Estate Planning, Elder Law, Medicaid Planning and Tax Law.