Remote Product Liability Defense Litigation Legal Assistant - Secretary

Product Liability Defense Litigation

You can be fully remote if you live 2 hours away from LA or SF. If you live within 2 hours of those cities, you will be on a hybrid model, with 1-2 days a week in the office.

The firm requires 3-15 years of experience in defense litigation, with a preference for product liability.

$75,000 - $95,000 in LA, depending on years of experience, education, and skills.

$85,000-$105,000 in the San Fransico Bay area, depending on years of experience, education, and skills.

You will be supporting 5-7 attorneys out of the SF office.

The practice group wants solid tenure, solid iManage experience, experience at a medium-to-large law firm, and solid e-Filing experience with California and Federal Courts.

Product Liability Defense Litigation is the practice area working with a team of lawyers

Hours can be 8:30-5 or 9-5:30, with 2-10 hours of paid overtime per week.

Solid tenure is key to success with this firm. Please have 3+ years of defense litigation, NOT PLAINTIFF litigation. Product Liability Defense litigation experience is highly desired but not required.

The firm offers outstanding benefits, including a discretionary raise in July 2027. You will work with a dynamic group of 5-7 well-respected Product Liability litigation defense associates and partners.

This fast-paced, busy position has substantive work, a fantastic manager, incredibly helpful staff, and great attorneys.

Why this assignment works with 5-7 timekeepers:

• Legal Secretaries are not entering docketing.
• Legal Secretaries are not doing the shells; the word-processing team handles them.
• Legal Secretaries do not handle copying or production; the services team handles it.
• Most attorneys enter their own time, but there are exceptions.
• Legal Secretaries don’t do billing.

This firm has one of the world’s most robust integrated legal practices, with 45 offices worldwide. The firm is renowned for its local connections and global influence, delivering comprehensive legal services worldwide.

The firm seeks a Legal Assistant/Secretary to join its Product Liability Litigation Practice Group. You will support 5-7 attorneys who work in the firm’s SF office.

Please have 3+ years of experience as a legal secretary, legal assistant, or paralegal in defense litigation at a law firm.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Draft, revise, and format legal documents, correspondence, memoranda, and e-mail
• Perform administrative tasks such as preparing expense reports, check requests, client invoices, and time entries, as requested
• E-filing in the State (CA) and Federal courts
• Maintaining and managing client files
• Maintaining attorneys' calendars and scheduling appointments
• Initiating communication and responding to client inquiries
• Coordinating client meetings, travel arrangements (domestic and international), and conferences
• Performing general administrative tasks of filing, mailing, answering phone calls, and greeting clients
• Working cooperatively with staff, paralegals, and lawyers
• Maintaining proficiency with office procedures and staying current with the Firm's technology

Required Qualifications:

• A High School Diploma is required; college preferred

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