Overview
Legal Assistant Jobs in Miami, FL at LHH
Title: Legal Assistant
Company: LHH
Location: Miami, FL
LHH is seeking 2 candidates with strongcorporate and real estate experience for our client in their Miami, Florida office. This experience is essential for success in the role. Their team works on fast-paced, detail-heavy corporate and real estate matters. Check out the details below:
Position: Legal Assistant/Jr Paralegal
Practice Team: Commercial Real Estate, Corporate, M&A
Location: Miami Office
Schedule: Monday – Friday, 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Benefits: PTO, Holidays, 401K, 401(k) matching, Medical, Dental, Vision, Supplemental Health
Benefits, Employee Assistance Program, Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account
Responsibilities
• Prepare and submit client/matter opening forms.
• Process conflict checks and prepare engagement letters.
• Create closing binders using Litera and save on PDF and paper if requested.
• Type, proofread, format, and edit correspondence, memoranda, agreements, and other legal documents under time-sensitive deadlines.
• Scan, save, and file documents from clients, other external sources, and internal sources into iManage.
• Prepare expense reimbursements.
• Interact with attorneys and staff to gather necessary information to assist in the file opening process.
• Provide support to other support team members, paralegals, and attorneys.
• Work on other tasks as assigned.
• Tracking Files/matters from beginning to end.
Experience Skills
• At least three years of experience as a legal assistant or junior paralegal in the areas of commercial real estate and corporate.
• Working experience doing conflict checks and engagement letters, preparing closing binders, and organizing closing documents.
• Knowledge of legal real estate terminology.
• Working experience with Microsoft Office, PDF Docs, Adobe Pro, Litera
• Excellent Word Processing skills.
• Excellent verbal and writing communication skills.
• Proficiency in proofreading legal documents, redlining documents, saving different versions of documents into Imanage.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems.
• Detail oriented.
