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Our firm offers unparalleled career growth opportunities, a commitment to delivering exceptional legal services, and a collaborative, team-oriented culture where your success is our priority.
Trust and Estate Administrative Assistant
Berluti McLaughlin & Kutchin seeks an experienced full-time in person legal assistant to join our thriving downtown Boston firm to support our business and estate planning team. Successful candidate must be a committed team player with strong organizational skills as well as the ability to prioritize and multi-task in a time sensitive environment with nominal supervision. We offer competitive compensation and benefits.
Responsibilities
- Drafting and finalizing correspondence to clients and courts.
- Drafting, editing, and proofreading a variety of moderate to complex documents.
- File management and organization (both electronic and paper).
- Manage administrative aspects of client/matter intake and management of the matter once opened.
- Contact clients, courts, Secretary of State’s office, and Registries of Deeds to obtain information.
- Preparation of deeds, trustee certificates, trustee appointments, and assignments.
- Assemble executed estate planning documents for presentation to clients.
- Assist in probate administration.
- Manage schedules for office conferences, court appointments, and telephone conferences.
- Working cooperatively with other departments and individuals in the firm.
- Performing other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Minimum of two years of experience in estate planning/probate field.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel and the ability to format, redline and stylize word documents and PDFs.
- Must be proactive, detail-oriented, highly organized, dependable, have a professional attitude, appearance and demeanor and values being an integral team member.
- Ability to work independently with minimum supervision while contributing to a team.
If you are passionate about the legal field and possess the necessary skills to excel as a Legal Assistant, we encourage you to apply for this opportunity.
Salary commensurate with experience. Please send resume and compensation requirements to info@bmklegal.com.