Legal Secretary in Detroit, MI| LawFirmStaff

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Title : Legal Secretary

Location : Michigan - Detroit
Refer to Job # RJGH729063


Legal Secretary Duties: Prepare correspondence and type legal documents, including pleadings, motions, briefs, discovery, appearances and subpoenas. Maintain legal calendar to track the myriad of legal filing deadlines; create spreadsheets; index and update pleadings and discovery binders; schedule depositions, hearings, and meetings. Draft correspondence and routine legal documents such as deposition notices and legal invoices. Assist with legal research and communicate with attorneys, experts, opposing counsel, vendors and other staff. Qualifications: 2 years' Legal Secretarial experience is required. Familiarity with legal terminology, state and federal court filing rules and e-filing system is a must. Furthermore, knowledge of basic legal procedure and law office protocol is important for the legal secretary. In addition to excellent typing and dictation skills, must be extremely deadline-oriented since missing a filing deadline can result in a default judgment (automatically losing a case). As office and legal processes become more automated legal processes become more automated, must possess excellent computer skills and be proficient with word processing, spreadsheet, legal research, presentation and time and billing software.
 
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