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Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is looking for a Legal Assistant to join our team in our Anchorage office.\nWe offer a hybrid work engagement with two days of remote work, and three days in-office\nThis position will provide and coordinate administrative and clerical support to attorneys and paralegals in various practice groups, supporting effective use of their time. This position requires a high ability to work independently as well as in a team environment with timekeepers and staff members.\nAt Davis Wright Tremaine, you will find challenging assignments, opportunities for professional growth and community involvement, and a culture of inclusion. DWT fosters inclusiveness and authenticity. Regardless of position, everyone here has a voice and the support is unparalleled.\nOn a typical day you will:\nTake ownership of own success and attorneys’ success\nWelcome challenges and take a proactive approach to problem solving\n\nBe engaged, interested and curious, offer ideas and solutions to improve service, teamworkand efficiency\n\nMaintain composure and discretion\n\nEffectively partner with attorneys and maintaingood working relationships with clients, DWT staff and attorneys, and other contacts (agencies, courts, vendors, etc.)\n\nEasily team up with others, both forming and joining\n\nMentor and share information with others\n\nEfficiently manage complex and challenging workflow\n\nUtilize resources (administrative secretary, DWTWP, file room, colleagues, office management)\n\nInvest in mentoring Administrative Secretaries and others\n\nSustain a high degree of attorney confidence, minimal backlogand minimal overtime\n\nMaintain a deep understanding of attorneys’ practices and goals as well as firm objectives, policiesand procedures; proactively identifyown training/development needs and collaborate with supervisor to meet them\n\nMaintain an understanding of firm and practice group goals; identifyopportunities to contribute to success by raising concerns and/or opportunities; and offers potential solutions and is willing to participatein the agreed upon course of action to reach the desired goals\n\nExtensive interaction with clients; acts as intermediary with clients and responds to client requests\n\nTake initiative to understand attorneys’ client service needs; identifyopportunities to contribute to client relationship success by raising concerns and/or opportunities to improve; offers potential solutions and is willing to participatein the agreed upon course of action to reach the desired goals\n\nManage client billing process, including review and editing of pre-bills\n\nMaintain up-to-date forms, including collaboration with word processing on templates\n\nCheck in regularly with attorney to ensure all aspects of projects are on track. Prompt as needed. Exercise careful judgment about when to ask for guidance\n\nAssign appropriate tasks to word processing, file roomand other support staff. Follow up on status of all projects to ensure timelycompletion\n\nCommunicate clearly with all appropriate teammembers on project status\n\nDocket deadlines\n\nType, proofread, run comparisons, and edit correspondence, memoranda, agreements and other legal and business documents from notes, templates, drafts, or dictated text under time sensitive deadlines\n\nMaintain attorney and client records, including email and other electronic records\n\nOpen new client and new matter files\n\nSchedule and coordinate appointments, meetings and conference calls and maintaincalendars\n\nAnswer, screen, and respond to phone calls\n\nOpen and route mail, attaching appropriate filesand documents\n\nPrepare and submitexpense reimbursement reports and check requests\n\nMake travel arrangements\n\nSchedule conference rooms using Resource Scheduler and arrange for food service and audio-visual equipment as needed\n\nAssistfellow secretaries and additionalattorneys as priorities dictate\n\nJoin us if you have:\n3+ yearsexperienceas a legal secretary in a law firm environment\n\nGED or High School Diploma\n\nAbility to read and write English\n\nAbility to understand and follow work directions, manage multiple priorities and respond to urgent requests with minimal supervision\n\nAbility to take initiative and ownership of projects and follow them through to completion, regardless of who is doing the work\n\nExpertisein Microsoft Word and Outlook is essential. Must also be proficient in Adobe, Exceland PowerPoint. Experience with Office 2010 and Windows 7 is preferred\n\nExcellent keyboarding, grammar, spelling, proofreading skillsand transcription skills\n\nExcellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with clients, firm members, and other business contacts\n\nExceptional interpersonal and customer service skills, as well as the ability to handle stressful situations in a calm, composed manner\n\nAbility to pay close attention to detail and be highly organized and accurate\n\nStrong time management skills\n\nAbility to work effectively in a team-oriented, service environment\n\nAvailability and willingness to work overtime as needed or requested\n\nWho We Are\nDWT is an AmLaw 100 law firm with 9 offices nationwide. We are relentlessly committed to client service and look for candidates who share that commitment. At DWT, client service means having empathy for each client’s and each lawyer’s work and personal pressures, business objectives, and legal needs; anticipating their needs; and having the capabilities and commitment to deliver what matters most to them.\nWhat’sin it For You?\nDWT offers competitive compensation in addition to ample benefits including but not limited to:\nChoice of health and vision insurance plans\n\n2 paid volunteer days for qualifying community service work\n\nDental plan\n\nFertility and adoption benefit\n\nPaid sabbatical after 13 years of service\n\nTuition reimbursement\n\nCommuter benefits\n\nRetirement contribution\n\nThis job description intends to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. It is not intended to include all duties and responsibilities.\nAnchorage\nThe annualized salary range for this position in Anchorage is $59,000 to $93,000 ($30.26 to $47.69 hourly).Actual pay will be adjusted based on the candidate’s education, training, experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. Full time employees may be eligible for a bonus, health insurance with an optional HSA, long term disability, dental insurance, vision care, telemedicine and virtual short term solution based counseling services, life insurance, Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, subsidized backup care and caregiving resources, 401(k), vacation, sick time, 11 paid holidays each year and an employee assistance program. For full-time employees, the initial vacation benefit is 15 days per year and 11 days of sick leave per year, accrued bi-weekly. Additional voluntary programs include: voluntary accident insurance, voluntary life, voluntary disability, voluntary long term care, and pet insurance.\nDavis Wright Tremaine LLP seeks to hire, develop and grow lawyers and business professionals who combine deep legal expertise, technological fluency, business acumen, and emotional intelligence-creating an excellent, inclusive, adaptive workforce that fuels exceptional client outcomes.\nAt Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, every employee has the right to work in an environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination. It is our policy to hire, promote, transfer, terminate, and make all employment-related decisions without regard to an employee’s sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), race, color, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, religious creed, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, medical condition, military condition, military or veteran status or any other basis prohibited by applicable local, state, or federal laws.\nDavis Wright Tremaine provides reasonable accommodations for those who need them to complete the application or recruiting process and for employees who need reasonable accommodations to perform the essential functions of their positions due to a disability or for religious reasons. 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