Monzingo Placement: Administrative Assistant (Law Offices) – West Hartford, Connecticut
Monzingo Legal is pleased to announce our recent placement of an Administrative Assistant – Law Offices in Hartford, Connecticut as follows:
Our client, a West Hartford law firm, seeks an Administrative/Executive Assistant for their multi-office family law practice. The ideal candidate has a background in legal administration, legal assistance, experience with client intake, and excellent proofreading, calendaring and office management skills. The firm is looking for a team player who is diligent, pays attention to detail, and communicates well with others. While prior work in a law office is useful, it is not a prerequisite. Similarly, experience with billing management is desirable, but not a prerequisite.
Work would be in a congenial and dynamic environment of motivated professionals working together as a successful team, proud of its accomplishments and committed to helping clients.
What You Will Do – Administrative Assistant
– Polite communication with clients frequently over the phone and in person
– Greet visitors, potential clients, and attorneys
– Type and proof documents and correspondence
– Maintain attorney calendars
– Order supplies and maintain the general office areas
– Assist with copies, scanning, mail, phone calls, and general office administration duties
– Assist the Intake Specialist with fielding leads, responding to new client inquires, calendaring consultations, and tracking marketing data
– Work with outside vendor on monthly billing, invoices, and assist with accounts receivable
– Liaison with accountant to answer related accounting questions
What You Will Need – Success Factors
– Flexible team player
– Compassionate and congenial
– Committed to excellence
– Positive attitude and ability to effectively communicate with attorneys, staff, vendors, and clients
– Initiative
– Confidentiality
– Comfort with learning new technology
– Reliable problem-solver
– Proactive
– Take ownership of responsibilities
– Superior follow-up capabilities
– Patience and diplomacy
– Commonsense
Technical Skills to Master – Administrative Assistant
– Clio or similar legal management software
– MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)
– G-Suite
– DropBox
– Monday.com
– LawPay
– MyCase
– CRM
– Adobe
– Proficient typing
– Proficient calendaring
– High organizational skills
– Superior communication skills (email, verbal, phone, in office)
Preferred Candidates
– Experienced Legal Administrative Assistant, Execute Assistant, or Law Office Manager with a minimum of 4 years of professional experience
– Superior grammar, spelling, and writing
– High school diploma or its equivalent; college degree preferred
– Professional administrative and clerical skills as to typing, calendar, technology, organization and prioritization
– Possess all the success factors listed above
– Above all we value a team-first mentality, combined with a pleasant personality and commitment to problem-solving
About
Founded in 2013, Monzingo Legal Search is a national legal recruiting and law firm marketing and management consulting agency. For more information, call (239) 770-8823 or see www.monzingolegal.com.
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Mary Beth Monzingo Link
(239) 770-8823 Direct | (800) 213-0991 Fax
mb@monzingolegal.com