Andrade Law Offices Full Time Legal Assistant Santa Barbara, CA · Full time Company website

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Included but not limited to...

• Interface with clients daily
• Answer phones and perform new client intakes
• Onboard new clients utilizing the office processes and procedures
• Collect, examine, and organize evidence and other legal documents for attorney review and case preparation
• Maintain the attorney's court calendar at all times so that court dates are not missed.
• Draft and proofread correspondence and legal documents, such as pleadings and contracts
• Research regulations, laws, and legal articles to assist with the preparation of reports, case files, and pleadings
• Manage client billing and invoicing as instructed by the attorney or office manager.
• Communicate with clients and witnesses to schedule meetings, interviews, court dates, and depositions.
• Manage, organize, and maintain documents in paper or electronic filing systems.
• Provide general administrative assistance, such as maintaining the attorney's calendar and making travel arrangements as needed.
• Legal research as requested by the attorney or attorneys.
• Preparation of motions, position papers and all other pleadings necessary for the defense of a client's case.
• Assisting attorney with trial preparation, including preparing evidence subpoenas, witness subpoenas, exhibit binders, ensuring all certified transcripts are ordered on time for trial, coordinating clients, etc.
• Assisting the attorney during trial, including but not limited to preparing pleadings, and responses to pleadings prepared by defendants.