Legal Assistant
Submitted on October 10, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Company: Insperity
Brief Company Description: Insperity, a trusted advisor to America’s best businesses for more than 25 years, provides an array of human resources and business solutions designed to help improve business performance.
Contact:
Dani
dani.baird@insperity.com
(832) 601 - 4249
Job Type: Full time
Hours: 8-5
Start Date: October 12, 2012
Compensation: 43000-48000
Education Level: Certification
Minimum Experience:
5 or more years
Job Description:
Legal Assistant
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Researches and analyzes law sources such as statutes, recorded judicial decisions, legal articles, treaties, constitutions, and legal codes
• Drafts documents such as contracts, initial and amended articles of incorporation/organization, stock certificates and other securities, buy-sell agreements, deeds, wills, and a wide variety of trust instruments (including advanced trusts such as charitable trusts, various types of grantor trusts, and asset protection trusts) for review, approval, and use by VP, General Counsel
• Investigates facts and law of case to determine causes of action and to prepare case accordingly
• Composes, prepares responses and types routine correspondence on behalf of VP, General Counsel
• Organizes and maintains virtual file system
• Coordinates VP’s schedule, makes appointments and arranges travel reservations
• Prepares meeting agendas and transcribes meeting minutes
• Assisting the VP and the document content team in planning and executing content goals and objectives for WealthDocx® legal documents, document assembly templates, and ancillary support tools
• Completing editing and drafting tasks as determined by the VP
• Assisting the VP in working with member editorial groups in drafting new documents and new or revised language to current documents including:
• Finalizing language for new or revised documents
• Finalizing ancillary support resources for new documents or language (including, for example, “help screens”)
• Submitting language to, and working with, the software development team in successfully programming the new documents or revised language into the WealthDocx® assembly system or other electronic means
• Assisting the VP and education team by reviewing all WealthCounsel document-oriented continuing education materials and planning and coordinating educational programming at the local/state and national level
• Participate as a member of periodic content committee meetings
• As needed, substituting as part of the legal support team.
Qualifications/Experience:
• Minimum 7 - 9 years of recent experience as a paralegal/legal assistant working in a law firm performing the duties of an Estate Planning Paralegal or Legal Assistant
• Paralegal or Legal Assistant Certification preferred
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Excellent writing, grammar, and proofreading skills
• Advanced skills using Microsoft Word are required
• Ability to use HotDocs document assembly platform preferred
Job Requirements:
This is a VIRTUAL position however the VP lives in Nashville (this is who you'll be working under) and would like to have weekly or monthly meetings face to face.
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