Legal Specialist

Base Pay Range

$30.00 / hr - $32.00 / hr

Role Summary

The Legal Specialist focuses on highly confidential, sensitive administrative and project-based work across the legal department at the client. As an individual contributor this role focuses on supporting both in-house and outside counsel on a variety of issues and projects, including litigation and arbitration, immigration, compliance, and office administration support.

Key Duties

• Solves a range of highly confidential, sensitive administrative problems and project-based work across the legal department requiring the highest level of discretion and professionalism.
• Liaises between outside counsel and Human Resources to obtain U.S. work credentials for non-immigrant workers or prospective foreign national employees.
• Facilitates the intake, analysis, and response to subpoenas and civil investigation demands.
• Assists in-house and outside legal counsel with litigation and labor arbitrations (e.g., scheduling, maintaining files, completing status reports, tracking, supporting paralegals and other arbitration preparation work as needed).
• Under the direction of the MD and assigned in-house lawyers, proofreads and edits critical legal documents, including legal briefs, for formatting, punctuation, grammar, and accuracy, exercising judgment and conducting research when necessary to screen for accuracy and completeness, as well as consistency with organizational policy.
• Determines an effective approach to calendar / schedule management for the Managing Director and assigned in-house lawyers, using discretion to prioritize key items and manage scheduling conflicts with internal customers, senior executives and outside counsel.
• Maintains company settlement agreements by partnering directly with HR, Payroll and Accounts Payable to get settlement checks requested and delivered, ensuring settlement terms are finalized.
• Supports lawyers and paralegals in adversarial proceedings, including scheduling interviews and depositions, participating in e‑discovery initiatives, and other duties as assigned.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

Preferred

Seniority Level

Associate

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Legal, Administrative, and General Business

Industries

Legal Services and Airlines and Aviation

Benefits

Seattle, WA

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