Legal Secretary: Seyfarth Shaw

Heavy assignment working with very busy equity partner. Position is heavy administrative requiring independent thinking and decision making to help manager the partner's practice. This position has heavy billing responsibilities in addition to taking dictation (shorthand), responding to e-mails, managing calendars, making travel arrangements and handling client calls. Must be able to build and establish relationships with clients. Will also support another partner and work in a secretarial team environment providing assistance to others as needed. Position requires the following:

• 5+ years of legal secretarial experience in a large law firm; real estate and/or corporate practice knowledge;
• MUST be proficient at shorthand;
• Knowledge and expertise with Microsoft Office products with minimum keyboarding skills of 60 wpm preferred;
• Knowledge of law firm billing and collection systems.

Seyfarth Shaw has over 750 attorneys in 10 offices located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Sacramento, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Brussels, Belgium. We are a full service law firm organized into four departments – Business Services, Employee Benefits, Labor & Employment and Litigation – each consisting of specialty areas designed to provide our clients with customized solutions to best meet their legal needs.