Legal Secretary

About the position

The Legal Secretary position at State Farm involves providing essential support to attorneys in a fast-paced litigation environment. This role is crucial for ensuring the smooth operation of legal processes, including calendaring, scheduling, and electronic filing. The position offers opportunities for professional development and advancement while working collaboratively in a hybrid work model.

Responsibilities

• Applies specialized knowledge of legal procedures
• Calendar management, processing mail, electronic filing
• Scheduling litigation events, including depositions, mediations, and hearings
• Propounding discovery, preparing deposition notices, including non-retained and retained expert witnesses, filing motions and pleadings

Requirements

• 1-7 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, multitasking
• E-filing experience
• Strong written and oral communication skills, proofreading, attention to detail, formatting
• Accurate typing skills
• Technology/software experience required
• Working knowledge of local court electronic filing systems
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe
• Working knowledge of Case Management system
• Working knowledge of Document Storage system

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of legal and medical terminology, local and state rules regarding pleadings and pre-trial matters, deadlines, and filing requirements (preferred not required)
• Ability to adapt to a corporate law environment

Benefits

• Competitive salary with annual raises and bonuses
• Robust health and wellbeing programs
• Multiple healthcare plan options
• 100% coverage for in-network preventative care
• Access to vision, dental, telemedicine, and mental health professionals
• Educational benefits including tuition assistance and training programs
• Fertility/IVF/adoption assistance
• Generous time off policies including parental leave and paid holidays
• 401(k) plan with company contributions
• Matching Gift Program and Good Neighbor Grant Program