Attorney's assistant vs associate partner

Differences between attorney's assistant and associate partner duties and responsibilities

Attorney's assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage active caseload of labor arbitrations.
• Assist patent attorneys by managing invention disclosure documentation and relate correspondence with outside counsel and USPTO.
• Draft jury demands, discovery responses, subpoenas, and closing letters for the attorney's cases.
• Draft legal complaints, summons and interrogatories.
• Handle significant criminal, juvenile and probate cases.
• Experience with presentation of software such as PowerPoint.
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Associate partner example responsibilities.

• Lead services solution design for a medical image cloud computing solution to manage volume and improve disaster recovery.
• Plan and manage the logistics around bi weekly team meetings, and bi annual team retreats.
• Work closely with the CIO and business leads on timelines, documentation standards, and rollout processes.
• Manage portfolio of projects for a financial institution, including archive messaging, cloud migration, reference data, compliance appl.
• Lead development of security architecture policies and procedures for IBM security practice.
• Develop a state-of-the-art content management architecture to manage and share content across multiple departments.
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