Probate Litigation Legal Assistant, Los Angeles

Probate Litigation Legal Assistant

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Our client, a premier probate litigation law firm serving clients from around the world in courts throughout California and Texas. Our team is passionate about delivering excellence in trust, estate, probate, and conservatorship litigation, offering comprehensive support to clients navigating complex legal and emotional issues. With a client-centered approach, we prioritize achieving the best possible outcome for our clients while upholding the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and ethics.

We are seeking an experienced litigation legal assistant to join our Los Angeles office.

The ideal candidate is committed to excellence, enthusiastic, flexible, organized, detail-oriented, and a team player with strong interpersonal communication skills.
They should thrive in a fast-paced, evolving, litigation environment.
They must have legal experience supporting multiple individuals, an ability to prioritize, balance and communicate around competing needs, and accommodate changing structural and support requirements.
They exercise excellent judgment and decision-making skills.
They can independently and effectively manage multiple priorities and time.
Principal responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- all aspects of litigation support;
- preparing and filing documents in court;
- creating internal files;
- filing, photocopying, scanning; faxing; mailing correspondence;
- processing incoming and outgoing mail;
- document management and organization;
- drafting correspondence and legal forms;
- analyze legal documents for accuracy and completeness; strong proof-reader;
- greeting clients and other guests;
- processing e-Filings;
- maintaining attorneys' general calendar;
- coordinating messengers and deliveries;
- assisting attorneys with trial preparations;
- and other clerical duties as they arise.
The right candidate should be welcoming, confident, patient, and compassionate.
Experience in litigation is required.
Experience as a legal assistant in the areas of probate, conservatorship litigation and administration is preferred.
Knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, Excel, Adobe Acrobat Reader, MS Office is required.
Knowledge of Smokeball is beneficial.

What's In It For You?

We work hard to foster inclusivity and encourage everyone to bring their best, authentic selves to the office every day. In addition to competitive salaries and bonuses, we offer a variety of programs, reasonably flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees, including:
- - - Company paid retirement contributions
    - Paid Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
    - Paid Basic life insurance and Short-Term Disability
    - Paid Time Off, including sick and vacation time
    - Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
    - Paid Parking
    - Discretionary, performance-based bonuses
Sustainable and Fulfilling Career: Every team member plays an integral role in ensuring our clients' successes, and we value people whose diligent contributions make a difference and allow us all to have meaningful, challenging, and satisfying careers that make a difference in the lives of our team, clients and communities.
Supportive, Collaborative Team Environment: Routinely, but at least monthly, we recognize and celebrate team member accomplishments at every level of the firm. We also welcome and reward team member contributions to improving the RMO "way" through our RMO Innovates program. Regular individual and firm-wide check-ins and best practice reviews help keep us all stronger together and aware of where we stand and where we can grow.
Work/Life Balance: Legal work is hard but rewarding, and while like any business we have production goals and sometimes have to work harder than we might plan for, firm leadership's experience in "big law" shaped where we set productivity requirements to allow us to "work to live" not "live to work." While we work diligently, we encourage and support our team members' lives and commitments outside of work.

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Location:: Los Angeles