Senior legal assistant vs attorney's assistant

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

Senior legal assistant example responsibilities.

• Perform administrative tasks for managing partner and trial attorney at a medical malpractice litigation firm including daily transcription and stenography.
• Handle collections, probate, estate planning, real estate and corporate work.
• Interview witnesses, prepare declarations, and draft responses to interrogatories and requests for production.
• Prepare lawsuits from complaint through judgment and garnishment for foreclosures, probate, and loss mitigation.
• Develop numerous PowerPoint presentations for conferences and teachings.
• Develop PowerPoint presentations, reports and legal documents.
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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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