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.