Legal Assistant - Business Law

We are seeking an enthusiastic professional Legal Assistant to join our Business Law groups. The right candidate should demonstrate resourcefulness and initiative, a desire to forge powerful relationships, hone their skills and deliver excellent work to advance their career at Quarles & Brady.

Responsibilities:

• Assist attorneys in drafting, proofreading, and formatting legal documents such as contracts, leases, articles of incorporation, and other business-related cases and transactions.
• Copies, distributes, sends (electronically and/or via mail, courier, or express service), file and otherwise handle completed work.
• Maintain confidential information, files, records, legal documents, and reports.
• Submit intake and conflict checks, process time entry, and client billing.
• Maintain attorney's calendars, schedule travel, appointments, meetings, and conferences.
• Support attorneys in connection with all aspects of client relationships and business development.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2-5 years law experience preferred.
• Possess a positive attitude, be proactive, flexible and a team player.
• Strong knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Adobe Professional.
• Skilled with use of electronic document management systems.
• Possess strong organizational, communication and client services abilities.
• Detail oriented with excellent grammar and spelling skills.
• Ability to prioritize needs based on urgency, multi-task, and work in a fast-paced team-orientated environment.
• Ability to work overtime, when needed.
• Aderant and FileSite experience a plus.