A prestigious law firm is looking to employ a Legal Administrative Assistant
Requirements:
- Experience with commercial matters including the drafting and formatting of agreements.
- Caselines experience – initiating a matter, uploading and correct naming and sorting of additional documents, drafting of indices in accordance with court directives, requesting trial/hearing dates.
- Experience with urgent matters in the High Court (in both the Johannesburg and Pretoria High Court) with emphasis on the different procedures in both divisions, experience in liaising with the urgent registrars.
- Experience when dealing with Court functionaries and Sheriffs – with an emphasis of arranging urgent service, obtaining returns of service, arranging after hours service, execution of warrants, sales in execution etc.
- Excellent computer skills – knows how to do proper searches on shared drives/C drive, etc., knows how to work with Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, Adobe and PDF Docs (must be capable of combining, bookmarking, and pagination (including additions and deletions) of documents, PMPro (accounting software).
- Experience with Lexis Nexis and Jutastat.
- Experience with keeping a legal diary and court time frames.
- Experience with litigious commercial matters – citation of entities, obtaining registration numbers, registered addresses, preparation of discovery bundles and the drawing of discovery notices as well as the preparation of appeal bundles.
- Good understanding of principles such as locus, jurisdiction, prescription, lispendens
- Experience in dealing with Sheriffs – knows which sheriff to locate and which websites to use to confirm jurisdiction as well as opposing attorneys and admin staff.
- Experience in knowing where to find court rules, amendments to rules and practice directives.
- Experience in knowing where to find court rolls.
- Experience in dealing with correspondent attorneys
Please send your CV to [Email Address Removed]
Desired Skills:
- MS Office Suite
- Lexis Nexis