Legal Assistant Job Listing at Kelly Services in Appleton, WI (Job ID US3536736_BH9736918)

Description

Job Title: Legal Assistant

Job Summary:
Join our dynamic legal team as a Legal Assistant, where your organizational skills and attention to detail will be essential in supporting our attorneys and enhancing client relationships. In this non-exempt role, you'll play a crucial part in managing legal documents, conducting research, and ensuring smooth communication between clients and the firm. If you're passionate about the legal field and eager to grow within a supportive environment, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Job Specifications:
- Job Type: Full-Time
- Location: Appleton, WI
- Pay Rate: $25/hour
- Shift: Monday – Friday, 8:00am to 5:00PM

Roles and Responsibilities:
- Interact with clients to build and maintain strong relationships via phone, email, and in-person communications.
- Schedule and organize client calls and meetings, ensuring attorneys' calendars are efficiently managed.
- Serve as the primary contact for courts and administrative agencies regarding hearings and motions.
- Prepare and send client bills as needed.
- Draft and execute engagement agreements by following attorney instructions.
- Maintain and update attorneys' calendars and send reminders.
- Retrieve and manage assigned attorneys' voicemails and mail.
- Prepare legal correspondence and finalize documents for delivery.
- Organize attorneys' files to ensure all relevant materials are ready for meetings.
- Enter time and billing data, and assist in managing new client and firm files.
- Perform document copying and scanning as required.
- Contribute to the development of policies and procedures.

Qualifications & Skills:
- High School Diploma required; advanced training at a college or university is preferred.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in a law firm is required.
- Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written, with strong spelling, grammar, editing, and proofreading abilities.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, with a specific ability to navigate and manipulate Excel; entry-level Photoshop experience is a plus.
- Ability to thrive in a high-intensity, fast-paced environment while creatively solving problems.

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

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About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we're obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it's about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It's the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It's the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly Services is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We welcome, value, and embrace diversity at all levels and are committed to building a team that is inclusive of a variety of backgrounds, communities, perspectives, and abilities. At Kelly, we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better services we can provide. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to Kelly's Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California's state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

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