Description
Support attorneys by investigating facts, researching legal precedent, and preparing and managing legal documents. Conduct legal and factual research and organize case materials to support filings, hearings, trials, and transactions.
- • Gather and analyze legal research, including statutes, case law, regulations, and secondary sources.
- • Investigate case facts using public records, databases, and interviews.
- • Draft, proofread, and cite-check pleadings, motions, discovery, affidavits, and correspondence.
- • Prepare and file court and agency documents, including e-filing and arranging service of process.
- • Organize and maintain case files and document indexes in paper and electronic systems.
- • Prepare for hearings and trials by assembling exhibits, witness lists, and notebooks.
- • Schedule and coordinate witness interviews, depositions, and subpoenas.
- • Meet with clients to gather information, explain procedures, and obtain signatures.
- • Track deadlines, court rules, and dockets; maintain calendars and ticklers.
- • Create research memoranda and summaries of depositions, records, and testimony.
- • Support transactional matters by drafting contracts, preparing corporate filings, and assembling real estate closing or probate binders.
- • Maintain legal forms, templates, and law library resources.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
