Legal Assistant - for a business law partner

This renowned law firm in downtown Montreal is looking for a legal assistant to support a business law partner. We are looking for a profile with a lot of experience in invoicing, who appreciates the administrative aspect more than strictly legal. The person must know account management, rigorous time tracking, and invoice preparation and review at their fingertips.

Detailed responsibilities

Billing:
-Ensure the management of accounts;
-Carry out a rigorous monitoring of hours;
-Prepare and review invoices;

Correspondence:
-Corrections and layouts of documents;
-Transcription of documents from cassettes, handwritten notes and telephone messages;
-Comparison of documents with Workshare;
-Opening and distribution of mail as well as tracking and correspondence;
-Various searches in MCDM and Intranet;
-Photocopies and scanning;
-Direct exchanges with other legal professionals as well as clients;

Case Management:
-Filing of documents and files;
-Opening and identification of folders and binders to file new documents;

Telephone:
-Answer the phone and follow up on internal and external calls when required;

Agenda:
-Management of the professionals' agenda;

Outlook:
-Electronic filing of emails;
-Printing and compilation of documents required by lawyers;

OnePlace:
-Research, data entry and update;

Miscellaneous reservations:
-Booking of travel, automobiles, hotels and restaurants;
-Booking of conference rooms for meetings, video conferences and client meetings;
-Ordering meals, beverages and others;

Conferences, seminars and training:
-Preparation of the participation approval memo when required;
-Obtaining relevant information including costs to establish the preliminary budget;
-Registration of the legal professional;
-Preparation of conference documentation using PowerPoint and transmission of the required information, including the biography of the legal professional;
-After the conference, retrieval of invoices and receipts of expenses incurred, finalization of the approval memo with actual costs and preparation of the expense reimbursement request;

Closing and archiving files:
- Filing of inactive files in boxes for archival purposes;

Opening of files:
-Requests for conflict searches in NBI;
-Requests to open files in NBI;

Job Benefits:
-Hybrid position (3 days in the office);
-Group insurance from day one;
-Participation in a pension plan after one year;
-Schedule of 35 hours per week;
-Holidays according to experience;
-Salary between $70000 and $80000.

Do you have experience in a legal environment, or do you have a background as an executive assistant, with great speed of execution and marked dynamism, and an ability to adapt to a very demanding field?

Are structuring and organising the administrative aspects of your day-to-day work part of your DNA?

It's a person like you that we're looking for, don't wait any longer!