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Legal Assistant Jobs in New York, NY at Lensa
Title: Legal Assistant
Company: Lensa
Location: New York, NY
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Legal Assistant Contract to Hire- Legal Dept – NYC 25hr-30hr
General Counsel is seeking an assistant/paralegal to join the Legal Department. This position is ideal for candidates who have interest in learning and working within a financial firm’s Legal and Compliance group. This role will provide the right candidate the experience in a corporate, legal setting.
This position will requires editing agreements and other memoranda, typing and creating documents, legal research, and work organization and management. Responsibilities will also include traditional administrative tasks such as calendar management, phones, and data base maintenance.
The ideal candidate will have an interest in pursuing a legal career and whose educational background was focused on writing and research. The candidate must have an exceptional attention to detail and precision in writing and document creation. The candidate must have an excellent command of Microsoft Office and the ability to create and manage red-line documents.
This position provides the unique opportunity to be exposed to sales, trading, capital markets, operations, and asset management, in a fast-paced environment of a worldwide company.
Responsibilities
Assisting with editing and creating documents
Tracking status of matters and metrics
Maintaining relevant databases
Basic administrative support tasks
Ad hoc projects as needed
Qualifications
Strong Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) experience
Experience working in corporate legal department, law firm, financial services, consulting, technology firm or related industry
Must have excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, exceptional verbal communication and listening skills
Knowledge of legal customs and practices
Education
Bachelor’s Degree with a strong GPA
Other Job-related Duties May Be Assigned As Required.
ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee’s race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
