Legal specialist vs legal assistant

Differences between legal specialist and legal assistant duties and responsibilities

Legal specialist example responsibilities.

• Attain signing authority training certificate to sign motions for relief upon filing complex transactions.
• Prepare and distribute payroll manage daily office operations and equipment and maintain supplies for office to run effectively.
• Achieve award for increasing efficiency by extensively communicating with debtors' attorneys and monitoring trustee activities on a daily basis.
• Review bankruptcy filing notifications and updating appropriate fields and workstations on MSP and LPS systems.
• Review bankruptcy filings and claims using various proprietary applications including NDC, AACER, and LPS.
• Utilize client systems such as Newtrak/LPS, AS400, LHIS, NDC and BAPS.
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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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