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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

Company Description

Bonnie Jones Associates, L.L.C. is your source for finding and filling permanent financial, accounting, administrative, legal, executive assistant, accounting and HR positions. Our professional staff matches the right candidate with the right employer and we take a lot of pride in that responsibility. Bonnie Jones Associates, L.L.C. has over eighty years of combined recruiting experience.

Our commitment to you is that we will work very hard to find you the right match. Our hope is that you will be very happy that you have chosen to work with us and that you feel we have done a good job for you. Please browse our web site, and contact us so that we can make a happy match for you!

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