Patent Assistant (San Diego, CA)

Fish & Richardson is a premier global intellectual property law firm, and they are seeking a Patent Assistant to join their San Diego team. The role involves providing administrative support to legal staff, including reviewing and proofreading correspondence, scheduling meetings, and managing calendars.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to legal staff and paralegals
• Review, edit, and proofread correspondence
• Establish and maintain calendars and deadline systems
• Schedule travel arrangements, reimbursements, meetings and conferences for legal staff and maintain their calendars as requested
• Perform overload typing, filing, photocopying, document downloading, or reception relief as time permits and as requested by other legal staff or management
• Open new matters and prepare engagement letters
• Process vendor invoices

Skills

• High School Diploma or equivalent is required
• Ability to prioritize and organize multiple deadlines
• Ability to use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to complete assigned tasks
• Ability to work in the San Diego office a minimum of 2 days per week is required
• 1 plus years of experience of administrative support within a legal firm environment is preferred
• 1 plus years of experience reviewing, proofreading and editing invoices

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Generous paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
• Back-up child care
• Health and wellness initiatives

Company Overview

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