LHH is seeking a Legal Assistant with experience in both Corporate and Real Estate for one of their clients in the Miami area. In this role, you’ll be supporting attorneys from beginning to end with Transactional matters, conflicts checks, engagement letters, document preparation and trial closings. After a 90-day onboarding process, the role switches to a hybrid schedule.

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

Requirements:

• 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

Benefits:

• Medical, Vision, Dental, 401k and more!

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance