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Legal Practice Assistant

New York, NY
Full-Time

Job Description

Overview:

McGuireWoods LLP is seeking a Legal Practice Assistant to join our New York office. The ideal candidate will have a strong background supporting a litigation practice and proven experience handling a high volume of time-sensitive tasks with accuracy and efficiency. This role requires a proactive, team-oriented professional who is dedicated to providing exceptional client service.

McGuireWoods, one of the world's leading law firms, has provided legal solutions to corporate, individual and nonprofit clients since 1834.Along with excellent benefits, McGuireWoods offers most employees a hybrid remote option allowing flexibility and work-life balance.OurApplicant Disclosuresdescribe your rights. OurPrivacy Statementdescribes how we will process and safeguard your personal data.

Responsibilities:
  • Prepare exhibits, hearing binders, document productions, and schedule depositions.
  • Handle mailings, deliveries, copying, and legal/court filings (paper and electronic) as needed.
  • Respond to client inquiries promptly, addressing document revisions, scanning, file naming, photocopying, and other requests (billable and non-billable).
  • Support new business intake, including conflict checks, drafting file opening requests, and preparing engagement letters.
  • Maintain organized physical and electronic file systems, including intake, retention, retrieval, and closure per Records Department procedures.
  • Draft, edit, and format legal documents and correspondence; generate document comparison reports.
  • Manage attorney calendars, emails, phone calls, mail, and make travel arrangements.
  • Enter and verify attorney time entries in the time management system accurately.
Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of litigation experience in a legal environment.
  • Notary Public preferred.
  • Must have prior experience with e-filing in both state and federal courts.
  • Proven ability to thrive in high-pressure, deadline-driven settings while managing multiple tasks.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and a professional demeanor.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office with advanced word processing and proofreading skills.
  • Highly organized, with excellent planning abilities and adaptability to changing priorities.

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Overview:

McGuireWoods LLP is seeking a Legal Practice Assistant to join our New York office. The ideal candidate will have a strong background supporting a litigation practice and proven experience handling a high volume of time-sensitive tasks with accuracy and efficiency. This role requires a proactive, team-oriented professional who is dedicated to providing exceptional client service.

McGuireWoods, one of the world's leading law firms, has provided legal solutions to corporate, individual and nonprofit clients since 1834.Along with excellent benefits, McGuireWoods offers most employees a hybrid remote option allowing flexibility and work-life balance.OurApplicant Disclosuresdescribe your rights. OurPrivacy Statementdescribes how we will process and safeguard your personal data.

Responsibilities:
  • Prepare exhibits, hearing binders, document productions, and schedule depositions.
  • Handle mailings, deliveries, copying, and legal/court filings (paper and electronic) as needed.
  • Respond to client inquiries promptly, addressing document revisions, scanning, file naming, photocopying, and other requests (billable and non-billable).
  • Support new business intake, including conflict checks, drafting file opening requests, and preparing engagement letters.
  • Maintain organized physical and electronic file systems, including intake, retention, retrieval, and closure per Records Department procedures.
  • Draft, edit, and format legal documents and correspondence; generate document comparison reports.
  • Manage attorney calendars, emails, phone calls, mail, and make travel arrangements.
  • Enter and verify attorney time entries in the time management system accurately.
Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of litigation experience in a legal environment.
  • Notary Public preferred.
  • Must have prior experience with e-filing in both state and federal courts.
  • Proven ability to thrive in high-pressure, deadline-driven settings while managing multiple tasks.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and a professional demeanor.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office with advanced word processing and proofreading skills.
  • Highly organized, with excellent planning abilities and adaptability to changing priorities.

Have more questions? Connect with a recruiter directly.E1

#LI-MM1

#MW1

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About McGuireWoods

McGuireWoods, one of the world’s leading law firms, has earned the loyalty of its many longstanding clients with deep and broad legal experience; a passion for understanding their businesses and markets; innovative delivery of practical, business-minded solutions; and unmatched service. With 1,100 lawyers in 21 offices worldwide, McGuireWoods’ continuing success comes down to one simple fact: The firm listens to its clients. 

 That’s the reason they consistently place McGuireWoods among a select group of elite firms in surveys such as BTI Consulting’s Client Service A-Team, an annual ranking derived from unprompted feedback by general counsel and top decision-makers at Fortune 1,000 companies. McGuireWoods has been singled out for excellence on BTI’s Client Service 30 list 18 times. 

 Financial Times also repeatedly recognizes McGuireWoods as one of the most innovative law firms in North America.

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