Legal Assistant Senior

• Transcribes or types legal dictation with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Prepares standard legal forms in compliance with established requirements.
• Reviews and proofreads legal briefs, pleadings, transcriptions, and citations for accuracy and clarity.
• Verifies the accuracy and completeness of citations and references.
• Drafts and formats correspondence and other written materials.
• Maintains confidential case files, follow-up records, and other essential legal documentation.
• Learns and applies various electronic, manual, and computerized information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
• Prepares and formats legal documents in accordance with established standards and guidelines.
• Scans and organizes documents for electronic and physical filing.
• Schedules appointments and coordinates meeting logistics.
• Manages and maintains calendars to ensure accurate scheduling and timely reminders.

Mandatory skills/certification(s) requirement:

• Transcribes or types legal dictation with accuracy and attention to detail
• Prepares standard legal forms in compliance with established requirements
• Reviews and proofreads legal briefs, pleadings, transcriptions, and citations for accuracy and clarity
• Verifies the accuracy and completeness of citations and references
• Drafts and formats correspondence and other written materials
• Maintains confidential case files, follow-up records, and other essential legal documentation
• Learns and applies various electronic, manual, and computerized information systems used by the agency, office, or related units
• Prepares and formats legal documents in accordance with established standards and guidelines
• Scans and organizes documents for electronic and physical filing
• Schedules appointments and coordinates meeting logistics
• Manages and maintains calendars to ensure accurate scheduling and timely reminders

Desired skills:

• Transcribes or types legal dictation with accuracy and attention to detail
• Prepares standard legal forms in compliance with established requirements
• Reviews and proofreads legal briefs, pleadings, transcriptions, and citations for accuracy and clarity
• Verifies the accuracy and completeness of citations and references
• Drafts and formats correspondence and other written materials
• Maintains confidential case files, follow-up records, and other essential legal documentation
• Learns and applies various electronic, manual, and computerized information systems used by the agency, office, or related units
• Prepares and formats legal documents in accordance with established standards and guidelines
• Scans and organizes documents for electronic and physical filing
• Schedules appointments and coordinates meeting logistics
• Manages and maintains calendars to ensure accurate scheduling and timely reminders

Job Duties:

• Provides secretarial /paralegal assistance to agency executives in legal environments who have complex program or operational responsibilities. Performs research, management, and case investigative work. Drafts affidavits, pleadings, briefs and interrogatories.
• Prepares exhibit books. Reads and summarizes depositions for trail use.
• Responds to plaintiff’s discovery requests. Interviews witnesses and defendants to prepare for trail.
• Uses word processing system to key, proofread and edit letters, memoranda, briefs, pleadings, expense, travel and miscellaneous forms from handwritten drafts, dictation and t typed drafts.
• Takes and transcribes legal dictation. Types routine correspondence. Answers telephone, take messages, direct calls, receive clients and distribute deliveries.
• Performs other assigned duties such as mail, creating case files and filing, completing and maintaining forms, and making travel arrangements.
• Considerable knowledge of the State and/or federal court systems, of legal case management and litigation support techniques.
• Considerable knowledge of legal terminology, office / administrative management ability with a variety of clerical / administrative duties. Ability to use word processing software / systems. Paralegal training or experience.

Job responsibilities in Brief

• Provides secretarial /paralegal assistance to agency executives in legal environments who have complex program or operational responsibilities.

About our Company: –
22nd Century Technologies, Inc., is one of the fastest growing IT Service Integrator and Workforce Solution companies in the United States. Founded in 1997, 22nd Century Technologies is a Certified National Minority Business Enterprise with 6,000+ people including 600+ Cyber SMEs nationwide supporting our customers in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. With HQs in Somerset, NJ and Mclean, VA, 22nd Century has 14 offices throughout the United States. As part of our unrelenting focus on quality and compliance, 22nd Century Technologies’ delivery is based on Certified Matured Processes including CMMI L3 Dev & SVC, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, and ISO 9001 quality processes. With a strong focus on the public sector, 22nd Century currently holds government contracts with 14 out of 15 Federal Executive agencies including DoD, 37 other Federal agencies, 50 States, 115+ Local agencies, and 37 School Districts. In the last three years, we have expanded our services to Fortune 500 and other commercial clients and currently support 80+ commercial clients.
Recognized among “Best Company to Work For” by Forbes, 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., consistently exceeds our clients’ expectations by focusing on their absolute satisfaction with jobs while keeping our employees motivated.
“22nd Century Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer” and “US Citizens & all other parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply.”
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.