Legal Practice Assistant (Commercial Real Estate)
Full Time 120000 - 160000 USD per-year-salaryJob Overview
Our client is seeking a direct hire Legal Practice Assistant to support its Commercial Real Estate practice in Los Angeles, CA.
This hybrid role offers the opportunity to work alongside a collaborative team of attorneys handling sophisticated real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, financing, and development matters.
The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and experienced in managing complex document workflows in a fast-paced legal environment. This position provides a dynamic blend of in-office collaboration and remote flexibility while supporting high-level transactional work for a diverse commercial client base.
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Our client is seeking a direct hire Legal Practice Assistant to support its Commercial Real Estate practice in Los Angeles, CA.
This hybrid role offers the opportunity to work alongside a collaborative team of attorneys handling sophisticated real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, financing, and development matters.
The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and experienced in managing complex document workflows in a fast-paced legal environment. This position provides a dynamic blend of in-office collaboration and remote flexibility while supporting high-level transactional work for a diverse commercial client base.
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Qualifications
- Must be comfortable with a 4+4 hybrid schedule (Remote Wednesday’s + 4 additional days per month)
- High school or GED
- Ideally 5+ years of legal administrative experience within commercial real estate
- Experience with DocuSign, document editing/proofing, and dictation
Responsibilities
- Create and edit complex documents from multiple sources, including correspondence, memos, spreadsheets, and presentations.
- Proofread and redline work. Responsible for accuracy and timeliness of final work product.
- Experience in Leasing/Loan Transactions/New Commercial Loans/Refinancing/Acquisitions.
- Ability to generate Closing Binders
- Ordering/drafting/tracking documents required by lenders for closings.
- Working with attorneys on due diligence matters.
- Review bills for accuracy and prepare transmittal letters to clients.
- Establish, update and maintain client and internal files, including saving and organizing documents in the firm’s document management system. Retrieve information from files when needed.
- Open and review incoming mail. Notify legal personnel of deadline-sensitive correspondence.
- Draft written responses when necessary, or reply by phone or email as needed.
- Reconcile and submit attorney expenses.