Posted 3mo ago

Full Time Legal Assistant

@ Andrade Law Offices
Santa Barbara, California, United States
$20-$40/hrHybridFull Time
Responsibilities:interface clients, answer phones, onboard clients
Requirements Summary:Bi-lingual legal assistant with experience handling client intake, scheduling, drafting pleadings, legal research, and office administration.
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Experienced Bi-Lingual Legal Assistant

Description

Included but not limited to...

  • Interface with clients daily
  • Answer phones and perform new client intakes
  • Onboard new clients utilizing the office processes and procedures
  • Collect, examine, and organize evidence and other legal documents for attorney review and case preparation
  • Maintain the attorney's court calendar at all times so that court dates are not missed.
  • Draft and proofread correspondence and legal documents, such as pleadings and contracts
  • Research regulations, laws, and legal articles to assist with the preparation of reports, case files, and pleadings
  • Manage client billing and invoicing as instructed by the attorney or office manager.
  • Communicate with clients and witnesses to schedule meetings, interviews, court dates, and depositions.
  • Manage, organize, and maintain documents in paper or electronic filing systems.
  • Provide general administrative assistance, such as maintaining the attorney's calendar and making travel arrangements as needed.
  • Legal research as requested by the attorney or attorneys.
  • Preparation of motions, position papers and all other pleadings necessary for the defense of a client's case.
  • Assisting attorney with trial preparation, including preparing evidence subpoenas, witness subpoenas, exhibit binders, ensuring all certified transcripts are ordered on time for trial, coordinating clients, etc.
  • Assisting the attorney during trial, including but not limited to preparing pleadings, and responses to pleadings prepared by defendants.


About the Company


Boutique law firm specializing in criminal defense and personal injury plaintiffs law. Our firm has been in business in Santa Barbara county for more than 35 years. Attorney Steven Andrade was a prosecutor in the Ventura County District Attorney's Office, and then an Assistant Attorney General in the Northern Mariana Islands, before returning to Santa Barbara to open his own practice as a defense attorney. Our firm offers competitive salary depending on experience, flexible work hours, vacation pay, and part time remote work for some tasks.