Legal Secretary - Need Mergers And Acquisitions Exp.

Legal Assistant/ Secretary to support 4 wonderful, busy, and professional partners with their Mergers & Acquisitions practice group.

You can work 8:30 - 4:45, a 36.25-hour work week. This position is a hybrid model of 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely. 

Great attorneys, Secretarial Manager, firm culture, and more! Up to $100,000 with a bonus and 7% firm contribution into your 401k.

The Ideal Candidate will have medium to large law firm experience, corporate, mergers & acquisitions experience, and solid tenure in each job.

One of DC’s premier law firms near 3 different metro stops seeks an executive Legal Secretary/ administrative assistant with solid experience and skills to support 4 senior partners in Mergers and acquisitions Law. 3 of the 4 are in DC, with the 4th partner in NYC with their own assistant in NY.  You will not be assigned additional partners/ associates in the future. They are prominent figures in the legal world. 

Please have 5-25 years of solid executive legal secretarial or legal secretarial experience.

You will:

• Compose general correspondence, reports, memoranda, spreadsheets, expense reports, and complex documents that may require advanced word processing skills.
• Maintain attorney(s) appointment calendar, meetings, business trips, sensitive client matters, and prepare mailings.
• Arrange all travel reservations and prepare all travel expense reports.
• Transcribe legal documents, correspondence, and reports from rough draft, dictation, or transcription.
• Open new matters, file requests, and conflict of interest checks with the appropriate department and maintain all client and general files.
• Keep files current and filing up to date for each client/matter.
• Conduct periodic reviews for possible storage of older files; prepare files to be closed.
• Assist in coordinating events and other large social functions in DC.
• Handle extensive and specific domestic and international travel arrangements.
• Work in conjunction with the other senior-level assistants.

Please have:

• The ability to compose documents in the appropriate business style using correct grammar and spelling; communicate clearly using proper grammar and diction over the telephone; proofread typed material for grammatical, typographical, or spelling errors.
• Intensive document organization and preparation skills are required.
• Proficiency in e-filing in state and federal courts.
• 5-25 years of executive-level legal secretarial and/or legal administrative experience
• Dictaphone or other transcription equipment is helpful as one partner uses it.
• Minimum typing speed of 60 wpm
• Solid MS Office 2019 Word and exceptional writing and proofing skills and you will be tested.

Paid overtime when needed, bonus, spectacular health and wellness benefits and they believe in work-life balance and their people are the best in the industry. Up to $100,000 DOE, skills, education, and tenure.