Legal Assistant

Senior Legal Assistant – Jackson, MS
Behind every flawless brief, met deadline, and courtroom-ready filing at a nationally recognized law firm is someone holding it all together, and that’s who our client needs. This is a chance to be the steady hand attorneys across multiple practice areas rely on, and the mentor junior teammates look up to.

Benefits & Extras:

• Hybrid work schedule
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Retirement plan
• CLE tracking and in-house professional development
• Team-based support model, not a traditional one-to-one setup
• Built-in mentorship opportunities
• Stability and growth at a nationally recognized firm

Compensation: Competitive, commensurate with experience

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Prepare legal documents, memoranda, and correspondence from draft or dictated text
• Generate pleadings and briefs with advanced Word formatting: TOC, TOA, cross-references, and Track Changes
• Create, edit, format, and proofread documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
• Convert PDF files to Word, cleaning up and reformatting as needed
• Manage workflow and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines
• Calendar critical deadlines and ensure accurate date calculations
• Mentor less experienced legal assistants

What You’ll Need to be Considered:

• 4+ years of legal assistant experience – must have a strong foundation in legal document preparation, calendaring, deadline management, and attorney support across one or more practice areas
• Advanced Word skills for legal documents, including TOC, TOA, cross-references, and Track Changes
• Comfortable in a team-based attorney support model, not a traditional one-to-one setup
• Genuinely enjoys mentoring less experienced teammates
• Experience transcribing from dictation or audio recordings
• Comfortable managing bar and court admissions and tracking attorney CLE

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