Legal Assistant - Corporate Litigation
26 days ago
Wilmington
Job Description Legal Assistant - Corporate Litigation Respected Law Firm | Wilmington, DE (Center City) Permanent / Direct-Hire Full-Time (35 hour-week) Hybrid (3 days in, 2 days remote) 3-5+ Years of Experience | $70,000 - $85,000 DOE Our client, a highly respected Delaware law firm in downtown Wilmington, DE, is seeking an experienced Legal Assistant to join its Corporate Litigation team. This is a full-time, permanent, direct-hire role supporting the department in a team-based setting rather than working for one individual attorney. The position begins with a 90-day in-office training period, after which it transitions to a hybrid schedule with 2 remote days and 3 in-office days per week. Standard hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with overtime as needed for litigation deadlines. A full-time schedule is only 35 hours, and excellent benefits are provided. Responsibilities • Provide legal assistant support to a busy Corporate Litigation team in a collaborative law firm environment, • Prepare, revise, format, proofread, and finalize pleadings, briefs, motions, legal memoranda, correspondence, and other legal documents, • Handle electronic filing in Delaware state and federal courts, including Chancery Court, Superior Court, Supreme Court, and U.S. District Court, • File through CM/ECF, PACER, and File & Serve Xpress while ensuring compliance with court rules and deadlines, • Maintain complex litigation calendaring and docketing, including court deadlines, hearings, depositions, filing deadlines, and case milestones, • Coordinate schedules, meetings, conference calls, travel, court appearances, and deposition logistics, • Assist with trial preparation, deposition support, exhibit organization, bates numbering, indexing, coding, page checking, proofreading, and document production, • Prepare and maintain case files, reports, litigation databases, and case tracking materials, • Convert, blackline, cross-reference, and organize PDFs and related materials using Adobe Acrobat, • Assist with Excel documents, PowerPoint presentations, charts, and other litigation support materials as needed, • Prepare expense reports and assist with billing and invoicing support, • Communicate professionally with attorneys, clients, co-counsel, opposing counsel, court personnel, and internal staff, • Support additional legal and administrative functions as needed in a fast-paced, deadline-driven litigation practice Preferred Experience: • 3-5+ years of experience as a Legal Assistant in a litigation practice group within a law firm, • Experience supporting corporate litigation, commercial litigation, chancery litigation, bankruptcy litigation, or other sophisticated litigation matters strongly preferred, • Strong Delaware filing experience in state and federal courts preferred, • Experience preparing and formatting pleadings, briefs, motions, memoranda, and other court filings, • Strong calendaring, docketing, deadline management, and organizational skills, • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint, • Experience with CM/ECF, PACER, File & Serve Xpress, Adobe Acrobat, iManage, and related legal tools strongly preferred, • Strong attention to detail, professionalism, responsiveness, communication skills, and team orientation