Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is one of the top law firms in the U.S., seeking an Administrative Legal Secretary to join their team in Los Angeles. This entry-level position provides comprehensive administrative and clerical support for attorneys and paralegals, ensuring efficient time management and project coordination.
Responsibilities
- Maintain up-to-date forms and collaborate with word processing on templates
- Type, proofread, compare, and edit legal and business documents under time-sensitive deadlines
- Enter attorney time, process and assist with the client billing process, including reviewing, and editing pre-bills
- Prepare and submit expense reimbursement reports, vendor invoice processing
- Docket deadlines, maintain attorney and client records, prepare/organize binders, conflicts checks, open new client and matter files, and manage calendars
- Coordinate and schedule messenger, overnight delivery or courier services as needed
- Coordinate appointments, meetings, conference calls, and travel arrangements
- Regularly check in with assigned executive legal secretaries and attorneys to ensure projects are on track, exercise judgment on when to seek guidance, and assign tasks to support staff while ensuring timely completion
- Communicate project status clearly to all team members
- Attend training classes
- Take full ownership of personal success and the success of attorneys, welcoming challenges and proactively solving problems
- Stay curious, engaged, and solution-oriented, offering ideas to enhance service, teamwork, and efficiency
- Understand firm and practice group objectives, identify opportunities to contribute, and actively participate in solutions to achieve desired goals
- Maintain regular and consistent attendance and punctuality
- Adhere to schedule by being timely on breaks, lunches and meetings
Skills
- 1+ years' experience in a professional office preferred
- GED or High School Diploma
- Self-starter with a high degree of attention to detail
- Ability to accurately type 50+ wpm
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office products
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office Word
- Ability and willingness to learn new programs and program updates
- Ability to express self effectively, both orally and in writing
- Excellent grammar and proofreading skills
- A highly professional demeanor and appearance; adhere to dress code
- Ability to work in a team-oriented, service focused environment and to handle stressful situations in calm, composed manner
- Ability to prioritize tasks and to complete projects with minimal supervision
- Ability to follow client confidentiality guidelines
- Ability to pay close attention to detail and be highly organized and accurate
- Strong time management skills
Benefits
- Choice of health and vision insurance plans
- 2 paid volunteer days for qualifying community service work
- Dental plan
- Fertility and adoption benefit
- Paid sabbatical after 13 years of service
- Tuition reimbursement
- Commuter benefits
- Retirement contribution
- Health insurance with an optional HSA
- Long term disability
- Dental insurance
- Vision care
- Telemedicine and virtual short term solution based counseling services
- Life insurance
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Subsidized backup care and caregiving resources
- 401(k)
- Vacation
- Sick time
- Employee assistance program
- Voluntary accident insurance
- Voluntary life
- Voluntary disability
- Voluntary long term care
- Pet insurance
- Commuter and Transit programs
Company Overview
Purpose drives us. Davis Wright Tremaine was founded on three guiding principles: ability, integrity, and service. It was founded in 1944, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.dwt.com/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 6 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 4 in 2023, 3 in 2022, 2 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.