Practice Team Assistant

Practice Team Assistant

The San Francisco office of Cooley LLP has an opening for a Practice Team Assistant (“PTA”) in it's Litigation Department.

Position Summary: Primarily responsible for providing administrative support for various administrative projects and duties in support of the timekeepers and secretaries in the assigned practice group(s).  Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

Position Responsibilities:

• Open and organize all interoffice mail for team members.

• Provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing reports, handling information requests, and performing clerical functions such as preparing correspondence for signature, arranging conference calls, setting up web meetings, retrieving corporate documents and updating contact databases.

• Review all documents prepared for accuracy, completeness, grammar, and syntax.

• Handle confidential and sensitive information with the appropriate discretion; perform to earn supervisors’ full confidence and trust in all interactions.

• As requested, schedule, coordinate and confirm meeting space and relevant attendees for team members’ meetings.

• As requested, coordinate travel arrangements.

• Prepare and process Expense Reports, Check Requests, Travel Reimbursements, Health Club Reimbursement Forms, etc. in accordance with accounting guidelines.

• Track relevant travel and expense receipts for accurate accounting reconciliations.  File and track reimbursements, credits and refunds through to completion.

• Prepare documents to support team members with overflow work which may include revisions, edits, and proofreading end product.

• Assist with internal procedures for the preparation of audit letter responses when needed and where applicable.

• Enter Daily Time Entry on a daily basis. 

• Complete e-Records filing, as requested.

• Complete all document processing and correspondence assignments accurately and within timekeepers’ stated timeframes.

• Prepare and arrange Messenger Service, Copy Center and facsimile requests as needed.

• Copy documents that are not appropriate to send to the Copy Center.

• Scan documents into PDF format.  Scanning jobs of 200 pages or more should be sent to Document Processing.

• Responsible for printing large PDF documents and emails.

• Consistently use the CRM tool to support business development in the firm, including taking ownership of contact information for attorney’s contacts and updating, maintaining and resolving conflicts within the CRM tool. 

• Coordinate and assist with other special projects as required.

• Assist other team members and timekeepers with various administrative tasks.

• All other duties as assigned or required.

Skills and experience:

Required:

• After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
• Available to work overtime, as required

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Previous general office experience
• Previous law firm or professional services industry experience

Competencies:

• Ability to work well under pressure
• Strong administrative and secretarial skills
• Ability to consistently meet deadlines
• Excellent verbal (both listening and speaking) and written communication skills
• Professional demeanor
• Ability to handle a complex and fast-paced environment
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks quickly and efficiently
• Ability to use initiative, diplomacy and tact
• Good-natured and pleasant to work with good sense of humor
• Ability to function well as a team member

Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices.

EOE.

The expected hourly pay range for this position with a work schedule of 40 hours per week is $28.00 - $34.00 ($58,240.00 - $70,720.00 annually).

We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition