Litigation legal assistant vs attorney's assistant

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

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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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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