What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Word Processor position at Eji Recruiting?
A prestigious multi-practice law firm in Boca Raton, FL, is hiring a Legal Word Processor for their Trusts & Estates team. This Paralegal will draft, edit, and format legal documents to support the firm's high-net-worth, international wealth and asset planning clients.
Some Duties and Responsibilities:
* Create and revise legal documents from dictation for attorney review
* Transcribe digital dictation
* Convert documents from PDF to Word or Excel & documents from WordPerfect to Word
* Mark headings and citations and generate a table of contents and table of authorities on documents when needed
* Create and modify automatic numbering schemes and styles
* Create, use, and modify watermarks
* Perform regular redlines and track changes redlines on Word documents and PDF documents
* Create and revise documents in Excel
* Speak directly with attorneys, clients, and other professionals to provide updates, collect information, and provide the feedback necessary to complete assigned cases and projects according to specified deadlines.
* Maintaining clients’ files, including preparing documents for signings.
* Filing of both physical and electronic documents.
* Finding and retrieving information from files.
* Assist attorneys and paralegals in preparation for meetings.
* Maintain confidentiality of client information.
* Manage information through various firm databases, including but not limited to MS Teams, Word, Excel, iManage, and other platforms.
* Track and record all billable time
* Ability to organize workflow and use time efficiently
* Ability to show strong attention to detail
Other duties as assigned
This is a full-time position with a great firm, offering a very competitive salary, amazing benefits that are fully covered, 401 (k) with a match, and an amazing annual bonus!
Salary : $60,000 - $80,000