Berluti McLaughlin & Kutchin is a full-service law firm in Boston, focused on serving closely-held businesses and high net worth individuals and committed to providing clients with the highest quality work and service.

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.