Our client, a global law firm located midtown west is seeking an experienced legal word processor to join their growing team.
The position is fully ON SITE with a car home within the 5 boroughs.
Salary 110K-115K
Summary:
Participate in the development of departmental procedures. Attend on-going training classes. Assist with accurately entering data in the department’s Document Tracking database. Assist with a seamless turnover of workflow instructions from one shift to next.
Shift: Monday-Friday 4:00 p.m. - 11:45 p.m.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Ability to accurately edit/input, scan, convert and format legal documents.
Ability to take initiative and proactively fill gaps in front desk workload whenever needed.
Assisting with electronically coordinating workflow to ensure quality document production.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills across multiple platforms.
Assisting legal and non-legal personnel, as needed.
Ability to analyze documents and provide time estimates.
Ability to handle and facilitate formatting large excel spreadsheets into a printable format.
Assisting with coordinating detailed distributions of documents.
Flexibility to cover other WP shifts, as needed.
Attending on-going training classes to develop proficiency in all applications used by the firm for document production.
Ability to assist and facilitate creating and editing graphic presentations.
Ability to assist and facilitate the SEC compliance of PDFs to a PDFA format.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:
Exemplary customer service skills necessary to communicate effectively and provide information with courtesy and tact, often under tight time constraints.
Being a team player – able to work well with supervisors, coordinators, word processing operators and other departments.
Expert knowledge of Microsoft Suite 2010 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio and Outlook).
Thorough knowledge of computer equipment and various software packages relating to document processing.
Ability to organize and prioritize numerous tasks.
Ability to work independently, including being resourceful and problem-solving.
Education ad Experience:
Three to five years experience in a word processing center environment.
Working Conditions:
Normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, temperature, etc.
