This job description is for a Legal Assistant position. The Legal Assistant will provide routine legal and administrative duties to support group attorneys. Key responsibilities include formatting and typing legal documents; maintaining filing systems; scheduling for attorneys; editing and preparing legal documents, contracts and agreements; translating documents between English and Arabic; and assisting with general office administration tasks like mail, supplies ordering, and file management.

1. Job Description
Job Title: Legal Assistant
Job Summary: Providing a variety of routine legal and administrative duties
to group attorneys.
Responsibilities & Duties:
1- General secretarial work including:
 Formatting and typing contracts and bilingual documents.
 Maintaining filing system
 Scanning & photocopying
 Faxing
 Printing e-mails
 Telephone calls
2- Schedule/Calendar management, etc. for attorneys (i.e. deadlines, due
dates, follow-up dates, travel arrangements and/or accommodations and
sets up teleconferencing)
3- Maintaining and updating associates’ task list, reminders and monitoring
projects deadlines.
4- Enter client contacts.
5- Responsible to edit, review and prepare in final form and correct legal
format: legal documents, contracts, agreements, amendments, resolutions,
and correspondence, completed independently or from verbal, written or
dictated direction for final review and/or signature of attorney.
6- Translate parts of documents from Arabic to English and vice versa.
7- Assist in time sheet entry.
Job Descriptions – Administrative Assistant

2. 8- Receive and handles all incoming mail for assigned attorneys.
9- May perform basic research and compile data (i.e. statutes, rules,
regulations, codes, etc).
10- Coordinating and following up with office paralegals to ensure
completion of assigned matters by Attorney.
11- Responsible for file management (i.e. preparing files, archiving, E-Filing)
12- Assist in ordering office paper & envelopes supplies
13- Filling in security clearance forms
14- Prepare engagement letters and conflict checks under supervision and
review of Partner’s Assistant.
15- Serves as backup to other secretaries in their team to provide support to
other lawyers as required and requested.
16- May perform other duties as assigned.
Job Descriptions – Administrative Assistant