The role of the Legal Assistant at McBrayer is to facilitate the work of a group of attorneys, enhancing the effectiveness of those attorneys, communicating professionally with clients and other team members, and contributing to the firm’s success.
Responsibilities include:
- Client communication and interaction, handling scheduling of meetings, monitoring of calendars, follow up logs, and attending signings with clients.
- Preparation of final documentation for estate planning signing and post signing process.
- Assistance with organization and drafting of documents related to corporate law and mergers and acquisitions.
- Electronically file key documents meeting applicable deadlines; mail letters and pleadings.
- Establishing and organizing hard files, when needed.
- Communicate with people involved in the projects including other attorneys, paralegals, court clerks and personnel.
- Keep clients informed on project process per the attorney.
- Maintain project costs / billables working with team and within billing software (LMS).
- Organize checks for various filing fees, vendor invoices and attorney reimbursements.
- Administrative tasks as needed including coordinating appointments; transcription; copying documents; database maintenance; making, answering and directing phone calls; greeting clients; scheduling attorney travel arrangements; and other organizational tasks.
