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Legal Assistance

Find legal assistants to review, analyze and prepare legal documents and contracts with factual research, provide administrative support in grievance procedures. Find Legal Assistance WFH freelancers on March 19, 2024 who work remotely. Read less

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What kinds of tasks are assigned to online legal assistants?
While good legal assistants in any legal arena will need proofreading and research skills including electronic research using Westlaw, LexisNexis (https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/law-firms/paralegals-and-legal-assistants.page), Bloomberg, SEC Edgar, PACER and/or CourtLink, and experience with e-discovery platforms such as Relativity, actual tasks will heavily depends on the type of legal work required from Personal Injury, Immigration law and Intellectual Property to Litigation or Criminal law firms to Private Fund specialists. For example, a paralegal at an immigration law firm could be tasked with jobs ranging from independently eFiling documents in accordance with the federal and states court rules to preparing US employment-based, NIV and IV visa filings to US Dept. of Labor, USCIS, DOS, and CBP and reviewing green card eligibility in the EB-1, EB-2 or EB-3 preference category and H-1B, L-1A, L-1B, E-3, TN qualifications to preparing U.S. nonimmigrant filings.

Legal assistants to criminal law firms may be organizing trial notebooks, drafting trial exhibit and witness lists, working with ADAs (Assistant District Attorneys) to ensure timely submission of court notes, and organizing information in the Court Event Entry Program (CEE) to update internal case tracking system with real time court adjournments, pleas, defense attorney changes, and sentencing information. Legal secretaries at litigation firms may be cite check, bluebooking and Shepardize / Keycite memoranda of law and briefs (https://libguides.law.ucla.edu/citechecking) as well as assisting with all phrases of discovery including: collect, organize, and review client documents; prepare document productions; redact document productions; review and organize incoming document productions; summarize document productions; draft privilege logs; prepare deposition preparation binders; manage pre- and post-deposition logistics; and summarize deposition testimony.

Private fund firms may be assisting attorneys in all stages of private funds, from fund formation and the closing process to private fund portfolio investments and transactions; compliance and investment activities for private funds clients and their investors.
Usually a Bachelor's degree, paralegal or legal management or legal operational certificate from an accredited program. From general administrative tasks such as filing, photocopying and conducting searches as required; Revising / drafting documents, discovery responses, affidavits, contracts and correspondence (frequently utilizing automatic numbering and advanced page numbering skills), and redlining / comparing documents to handling subpoena records and co-ordination of monthly billing, client reporting and other general account duties, an online, freelance Legal Secretary will need a working knowledge of the state court system and processes, esp. tort experience and helps if she or he has had access to experience in a litigation or law office or trial experience.

For discovery preparation to drafting correspondence (including copying, filing, faxing, archiving and dictation), document production and amendments including use of precedents; Outlook calendar maintenance and data maintenance for clients with strong multi-tasking, organizational and time management skills and proficiency with case management software is as important as strong familiarity with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Teams, & PowerPoint) to handle highly sensitive, confidential and non-routine information. Must be able to manipulate electronic documents such as TIF, PDF and JPG formats, ideally with Paralegal Certification from an ABA-Certified program.

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