Full - time Attorney specializing in immigration litigation in federal and immigration courts. Role involves legal research, document drafting, and client representation.
About the role
- Legal Practice Assistant at FBT Gibbons supporting attorneys with legal documents, case management, and administrative tasks. Collaborates with the Client Support Team to enhance workflow efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Understand the specific needs and business of the practice areas.
- Manage the business intake process, run adversary searches, draft screening memos and engagement letters, and open new files.
- Prepare, revise, and format legal documents and correspondence using various software applications and according to instructions.
- Proofread documents and correspondence for content, spelling, grammar, language usage, and punctuation, and save documents in final form.
- Prepare documents and applicable fees for electronic filings as needed, and according to instructions.
- E-file documents with federal and state courts and other agencies.
- Maintain and manage timekeeper calendars, including court docket deadlines, conferences, teleconferences, depositions, and other meetings as requested.
- Assist as needed with projects, overflow work, administrative work, and other duties to provide support and to help with the workloads of attorneys, peers, and other colleagues throughout the firm.
- Manage administrative tasks as requested, including, but not limited to, processing and distributing mail, preparing audit letter responses, completing expense reports, preparing check requests, and reviewing client billing statements.
- Use the CST workflow application to enter and to manage support requests, providing proactive communication with the attorney or other timekeeper from start to completion of the task.
- Navigate the CST workflow application with a proficient level of skill while prioritizing and completing the tasks efficiently.
- Regularly monitor the task queue upon completing assignments to identify and take on new tasks in a timely manner, minimizing delays in tasks completion and supporting consistent workflow.
- Evaluate task urgency and workload capacity to offer availability when appropriate, accepting assignments that align with current expertise while also identifying and participating in training opportunities to expand capabilities and support overall team efficiency.
- Assist the timekeepers and the team with projects, overflow work, administrative work, and other duties to provide support with a positive and collaborative approach to working with others.
- Serve as a resource to teammates while demonstrating the willingness to mentor and share knowledge.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- 3+ years of legal practice assistant experience required.
- Litigation experience required.
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office software programs.
- Ability to learn and apply practice group and/or firm specific software programs, including the CST workflow application, at a proficient level.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team structure.
- Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Ability to cooperate, work and communicate effectively and professionally with Firm clients and Firm personnel at all levels on the telephone, by e-mail as well as in-person.
- Ability to organize and prioritize numerous tasks and complete them under time constraints.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and shift attention from one area of work to another quickly and effectively.
- Ability to handle confidential information.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life
- disability
- 401k/profit sharing retirement package
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