Legal Assistant

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Atlanta Family & Immigration Law Full time

**Required Qualifications**:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to build rapport with employees, clients, court representatives, and able to work within a team
- Experience with Microsoft Suite and Adobe Acrobat
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task
- Detail-orientated and extremely organized
- At least 1 year of experience working as a Legal Assistant

**Preferred Skills**:

- Experience working in family law or litigation firm
- College Degree or Law Degree
- Experience with case management software programs (Mycase)

**Responsibilities**:
This position is responsible for providing critical admin support to the legal team.
They will assist in a variety of ways, some of which are detailed below. They will also have a mínimal billable workload.
- Filing court documents
- Assist paralegals with follow up on various items including but not limited to signed court documents, documents or communications from clients, etc
- Scheduling/Calendaring various events and notifying appropriate parties included but not limited to mediation, hearings, attorney or paralegal client meetings, etc
- KPI management
- Responsible for following all processes and procedures in case the firm’s client management software and documents/ledgers all activities in the case management software.
- Responsible for scheduling mediation
- Responsible for ingoing/outgoing mail and faxes.
- Responsible for documenting expenses in client matters
- Scan all documents; upload to client files
- Maintaining client physical and electronic files
- Closing matters and physical files
- Assists the paralegal(s) and attorneys with additional support as time permits and as needed

Pay: R18,00 - R19,00 per month



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