Legal Secretary / Legal Assistant

Your duties will include:

• Preparing commercial contracts and other legal documents (no conveyancing or litigation; and no dictation!)
• Help with marketing activities 
• Implement and maintain online tools and systems 
• Calendar, file and client management
• Liaising with clients, other lawyers and third parties
• Legal practice management activities 

To be successful in the role, you will have:

• Experience as a legal secretary, assistant or paralegal in a commercial legal firm
• Experience producing high quality legal documents – with advanced MS Word skills including document formatting 
• Experience with legal operations technology, e.g. document generation, would be highly regarded – although initiative and a willingness to learn new technology is more important 
• Strong computer skills including MS Office Suite 
• Advanced administration and organisational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• Highly flexible working arrangements and hours.  Work when it suits you.  Approx. 10 hours per week to start, scaling up next year.   
• Work from our Melbourne CBD office and from home (if you want). 
• Remuneration is highly negotiable to suit your experience.  All permanent staff share in a firm bonus pool. 
• We’re a small team, so we’re all involved in everything we do. No silos, factions or office politics. Everyone contributes directly to our firm’s strategy, business plans and operations. 
• We’re not afraid to be ourselves. Lawyers can be human too.

Elevate Legal is a boutique law firm providing commercial legal solutions for growing companies. We help Aussie technology companies conquer the world. We’re a small friendly team of three lawyers and one Executive Assistant. To help us continue our growth, we’re looking for a legal secretary/assistant on a casual or part time basis (approx. 10 hours per week to start).