Legal research assistant vs attorney's assistant

Differences between legal research assistant and attorney's assistant duties and responsibilities

Legal research assistant example responsibilities.

• Complete accounting and payroll functions.- gather and process client documents.- manage daily operations of office.
• Collect and organize customer information in response to subpoenas.
• Attend depositions and prepare interrogatories in personal injury and other tort cases.
• Assemble case information and draft specific interrogatories and requests for production of documents.
• Draft responses to commissioner complaints and subpoenas; explain mortgage-servicing issues to homeowners after conducting research; edit form letters.
• Answer and propound discovery/mandatory disclosure/financial affidavits.
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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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