Executive Legal Assistant

Our client, an AM law 200 firm, is seeking a Legal Executive Assistant for their Los Angeles office. This is a great opportunity for someone with a few years of legal experience to get into a position that allows for learning and growth.

This position will support 3 partners and is an integral part of their overall success. In this role you’ll be a “right hand” to the partners and proactively manage their day-to-day schedule and operations. It requires critical and strategic thinking and the ability to understand overall objectives, anticipate, and problem solve.

This position offers a hybrid schedule and requires three days onsite in their Los Angeles office.

*Previous law firm experience is required.

Responsibilities include:

• Managing and prioritizing a very active calendar of appointments and events
• Serving as a “gatekeeper”, screening calls and ensuring schedules are optimized for efficiency
• Arranging detailed travel
• Composing correspondence (frequently confidential in nature) with a keen attention to detail and discretion and understanding of context
• Foster working relationships with other staff, firm clients, and external vendors
• Business development activities including maintaining client relationships, social media coordination, PowerPoint presentations, running conflicts, updating the CRM database with relevant lead and pitch information, handling client gifting
• Client billing administrative duties
• Creating agendas, reports, documents

Requirements:

• 3+ years of administrative experience at a law firm
• Excellent judgement and critical thinking skills
• Highly proactive, interpersonally savvy and a possessing a high level of integrity
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat, and Social Media web platforms.

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree

Salary $110,000 – $120,000