Legal assistant vs litigation legal assistant

Differences between legal assistant and litigation legal assistant duties and responsibilities

Legal assistant example responsibilities.

• Complete accounting and payroll functions.- gather and process client documents.- manage daily operations of office.
• Manage document production with various internal departments for response to DCAA investigations and third party subpoenas.
• Assist patent attorneys by managing invention disclosure documentation and relate correspondence with outside counsel and USPTO.
• Relocate temporarily to Chicago, Illinois to facilitate and manage electronic discovery exchange in preparation for arbitration.
• Perform administrative tasks for managing partner and trial attorney at a medical malpractice litigation firm including daily transcription and stenography.
• Gather and prepare documents for binders/notebooks for depositions, arbitration, hearings/trial; manage incoming document production mostly for litigation purposes.
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Litigation legal assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage and coordinate various aspects of major pharmaceutical litigation including budgeting, work scope plans, staffing and defense coordination.
• Prepare and review all discovery materials, including depositions, subpoenas, interrogatories, interviews.
• Prepare PowerPoint presentations for visual aids at trial and for inhouse presentations.
• Review and respond to interrogatories and discovery.
• Prepare answers to and draft interrogatories and document requests.
• Prepare defensive pleadings, motions and affidavits including discovery.
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