Litigation Senior Legal Assistant - LAC Group
Location: USA - CO - Denver
LAC Group is recruiting an experienced Litigation Senior Legal Assistant for placement at a prestigious law firm with offices in Denver. The Litigation Senior Legal Assistant will assist on all aspects of complex civil litigation and appeals matters. Duties will include: Assisting attorneys in research and preparation of pleadings as well as daily assignments in relation to supporting active litigation matters and preparing for trial and organizing information through the preparation of summaries, chronologies, reports, spreadsheets, charts, logs, and coding forms for input into databases, graphs and other usable formats.Responsibilities
- Provide legal assistance in all aspects of complex civil litigation and appellate matters
- Assist with research and preparation of pleadings
- Trial preparation
- Organization of case documents
- Preparation of case chronologies, summaries, spreadsheets, charts, logs, graphs, etc.
- Coding forms for input into litigation databases
Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years of experience as a litigation legal assistance handling large complex civil litigation matters
- Manage case documents using litigation support technology
- Work with in-house counsel and vendors for electronic litigation support
- Knowledge of federal and state court rules and filing requirements; E-filing using Pacer and ECF
- Experience performing legal and factual cite checking and the ability to Shepardize and Blue Book briefs
- Strong research skills, including experience using Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw and internet search engines
- Prepare documents for discovery in response to opposing counsel requests
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal abilities to interface with attorneys, law firm staff, opposing counsel, court personnel, vendors and clients
- Strong attention to detail with excellent organizational abilities
- Ability to work overtime and travel
LAC Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Affirmative Action Employer who values diversity in the workplace.