Legal Secretary

The **Dallas **office has an excellent opportunity for an experienced** Legal Secretary** to work with our Litigation Group. This is a non-exempt position that reports to the HR Manager and collaborates regularly with the attorneys and staff. The job responsibilities encompass performing overall legal secretarial and general administrative tasks, including:

- Delivers excellent work and superior service to the Firm’s clients; contributes to the Firm’s reputation for excellence by providing highly efficient and effective secretarial and administrative support to a legal team consisting of five or more attorneys.
- Communicates with attorneys and assists in balancing the team’s workload to ensure completion of projects within established time frames and quality standards; seeks guidance from the Human Resources Manager as necessary.
- Prepare various legal documents and correspondence such as summonses, complaints, motions, and subpoenas specific to the practice area of the attorney and\or legal assistant.
- Assists with opening and closing of client matters.
- Preparation of exhibits and trial notebooks, scheduling depositions, court reporters and videographers.
- File documents, order certificates and perform searches with the Texas Secretary of State, and also work with Capitol Services for corporations that are formed outside of Texas.
- Administrative support includes answering phones and routing calls, transcribing dictation, maintaining multiple attorney calendars, coordinating travel arrangements, entering attorney time, billing, preparing expense reports, organizing, and coordinating meetings and conferences.
- Organizes and maintains client files and form files.
- Assists with billing/edits; enters attorney time into time entry system as requested.
- Perform other duties as assigned.

**Requirements**:

- High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
- A minimum of three (3) years of law firm experience required, supporting a minimum of five attorneys.
- Knowledge of appellate, federal, and state court systems, including appellate and federal e-filing and state court online filing systems required.
- Must be detailed oriented, able to work independently and in a team environment and able to implement high priority projects.
- Fundamental knowledge of legal terminology, court rules and procedures.
- Must have great attention to detail

BakerHostetler is an Equal Opportunity Employer.