• Provides excellent client service
• Ability to draft standard pleadings, correspondence, memoranda and other documents.
• Possesses strong assistant skills including typing, transcribing, word processing, mail and contact management in all of the firm’s systems and databases.
• Accurately files court documents both electronically and in document form and able to determine and follow any local or judge specific requirements related to same.
• Exhibits sound judgment and organizational skills to receive, record and disseminate all information on behalf of the clients and assigned attorneys (e.g., mail, interoffice mail, email, etc.)
• Regularly anticipates the needs of assigned attorneys in order to promote timekeeper efficiencies (i.e., drafts correspondence, prepares shell pleading and discovery documents in advance).
• Routinely reviews and follows-up on client deadlines and calendar appointments.
• Coordinates and makes necessary arrangements for meetings (i.e., depositions, mediations, interviews, and vendor and facility reservations).
• Regularly and consistently updates client files, notebooks, and pleading indices.
• Maintains attorney specific case lists, charts, and status of cases and outcomes.
• Consistently updates all applicable contact records (including attorney’s outlook and firm database).
• Timely reviews, follows-up on, and accurately files client-related emails.
• Able to juggle multiple assignments and/or deadlines while maintaining a professional demeanor and timely seeks assistance when needed.
• Performs e-filings, prepare pleadings notebooks, update indexes and prepare exhibits.
• Maintain and organize files in an orderly manner.
• Timely reviews and ensures accuracy of vendor invoices; prepares accurate check requests and timely submits invoices for payment to client or accounting.
• Possesses knowledge of client-specific billing guidelines and restrictions and consistently applies those guidelines to ensure cost-effective practices.

Firm Values: One Firm, One Team, One Direction

Cultivation

• We coach, mentor and provide feedback to one another
• We maintain a growth mindset and avoid complacency
• We lead with innovation and hard work
• We embrace change and ideas from everyone

Collaboration

• We work together to innovate and achieve winning solutions
• We learn from our collective successes and experiences
• We encourage teamwork on every task no matter how big or how small

Compassion

• We show empathy towards our colleagues, clients and communities
• We celebrate wins and learn from losses
• We listen to all voices fairly

Community

• We communicate openly, directly and respectfully
• We commit to fun, family and a healthy work-life balance
• We are inclusive of diverse ideas, viewpoints and people
• We support each other and our community at large

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation commensurate with education and experience.
• In house litigation training
• Bonus opportunities
• Well rounded benefits package including Health, Dental, FSA, STD, LTD, Life Insurance, 401k, and profit sharing
• Mass transit and Parking reimbursement
• Flexible work schedule
• Meditation room
• Firm provided coffee and snacks

Smith Freed Eberhard is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, military service obligations, traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles or other category protected by applicable federal, state or local law.