Legal Practice Assistant

Preparing Documents:

• Provide administrative and legal support to attorneys in pre-litigation, litigation, and settlement phases of cases, primarily in labor and employment matters involving class action, wage and hour, discrimination, and retaliation.
• Draft and file pleadings per applicable FRCP, WA CRs, and LCRs; pleadings ranging from answers to TROs and summary judgment motions in federal court, state court, and administrative agencies such as the NLRB, EEOC, and BIIA.
• Draft and serve subpoenas, discovery responses/requests, and document productions (primarily using Relativity).
• Engage in deposition preparation, witness declaration compilation, and record requests to doctors, SSA, ESD, and IRS.
• Assist with arbitration and mediation proceedings, including position statements and settlement agreements.
• Run background searches for relevant court records, social media, and other public records.
• Conduct legal research regarding case precedent and fact patterns, on Westlaw and LexisNexis.
• Coordinate with in-house counsel teams to comply with litigation holds, discovery, declarations, and other litigation needs.

General Administrative Support:

• Review, analyze, and summarize voluminous case documents for attorney review.
• Case organization, including receiving and returning client materials, and ongoing maintenance of electronic and physical files, proofreading for content, grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, and required formatting.
• Run conflicts checks, draft engagement letters, and open new matters.
• Take point on document intake, organization, and filing in iManage.

• Three or more years of experience as a practice assistant or legal secretary.
• Knowledge of legal terminology, legal documents and legal processes.
• Accurate typing of at least 60 words per minute.
• Strong computer proficiency in the use of MS Office, Excel, document management, time entry, e-filing and database software.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Understanding of correct grammar, spelling and punctuation.
• Strong proofreading skills.
• Superior organizational skills including filing and proofreading.
• Time management skills and ability to work independently as well as with a team.
• Regular predictable attendance.

Please note, we are not working with outside recruiters for this position.

In accordance with the Washington Equal Pay and Opportunities act, the expected salary range for this Washington position is between $49,600 and $87,500. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience, geographic location, and other job-related factors as permitted by law. This position qualifies for the benefits below.

Ogletree Deakins offers a robust suite of benefits for our Staff including: Paid Time Off, Sick Time, a 401(k) matching program, Profit Sharing, Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, affordable Health and Life Insurance including Dental & Vision coverage, Health Savings Account /Flexible Spending Accounts to help offset the cost of dependent care and/or health care expenses, Teladoc (24/7 access to a doctor by phone or online video), Tuition Reimbursement and an Employee Assistance Program.