Legal Secretary
State Farm is a Fortune 50 company dedicated to helping people and investing in communities. They are seeking a Legal Secretary to support attorneys with various legal procedures, including calendaring, scheduling, and filing, while interacting with clients and courts throughout the litigation process.
Responsibilities
- Apply specialized knowledge of legal procedures
- Calendar management, processing mail, electronic/paper filing
- Schedule litigation events, including depositions, mediations and hearings
- Drafting routine correspondence and legal documents
Skills
- 1 years of recent civil defense litigation secretarial experience preferably in insurance defense or personal injury
- Knowledge of legal and medical terminology, local and state rules regarding pleadings and pre-trial matters, deadlines, and filing requirements
- Calendaring and scheduling experience within a legal environment
- Strong organizational skills, prioritizing urgent and non-urgent tasks (items with deadlines, handling demands), multitasking
- E-filing experience
- Ability to adapt to a corporate law environment
- Strong written and oral communication skills (proofreading, attention to detail, formatting)
- Accurate typing skills
- Working knowledge of Indiana electronic filing system
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
- Working knowledge of Case Management system
- Working knowledge of Document Storage system
- Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately
- Knowledge of legal and medical terminology, local and state rules regarding pleadings and pre-trial matters, deadlines, and filing requirement (strongly preferred)
Benefits
- Robust health and wellbeing programs
- Multiple healthcare plan options
- 100% coverage for in-network preventative care
- Access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals
- Educational benefits like industry leading training programs
- Top-notch tuition assistance programs
- Employee resource groups
- Mentoring
- Fertility/IVF/adoption assistance
- College coaching
- National discount programs
- Interactive monthly financial workshops
- Free financial coaching
- Generous time off policies
- Initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave
- Paid holidays
- Celebration day
- Life leave (40 hours/year)
- Bereavement leave
- Community service/education support days
- Matching Gift Program
- Good Neighbor Grant Program
- Employee Assistance Fund
- 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary
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