Legal Assistant

  • Dallas
  • Permanent
  • Fri Nov 6 00:46:44 2026
  • 1A1AE346D17a9920

Litigation Legal Assistant
Location: Dallas, Texas
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Arrangement: In-Office (Optional Hybrid 4/1 Schedule After 90 Days)
Required Experience: 7+ Years
Compensation: Commensurate with experience

Position Overview
A respected Dallas law firm is seeking a seasoned Litigation Legal Assistant to provide comprehensive administrative and legal support to multiple attorneys, including partners and members of firm leadership.
The attorneys’ practices include commercial and business litigation, corporate matters, construction disputes, and bankruptcy. The position will balance traditional legal-secretarial responsibilities and substantive litigation support. This role requires excellent discretion, judgment, and professionalism. The successful candidate must also be comfortable adopting new legal technology and integrating evolving software platforms into daily work. This includes document-management, billing, e-filing, workflow, and firm-approved AI-enabled solutions.
Required Qualifications
  • At least 7 years of litigation legal assistant experience in a law firm or comparable professional-services environment
  • Experience supporting partners, senior attorneys, or firm leadership
  • Experience supporting commercial or business litigation matters
  • Demonstrated discretion when handling confidential, sensitive, and privileged information
  • Sound judgment, professional composure, and excellent interpersonal skills
  • Experience creating, revising, formatting, and proofreading sophisticated legal documents
  • State and federal court e-filing experience
  • Strong working knowledge of county, state, and federal court systems
  • Proficiency with document-management systems and legal solutions software
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat
  • Familiarity with legal billing software; Aderant experience preferred
  • Strong aptitude for learning and adopting new legal technology
  • Willingness to use firm-approved workflow, automation, and AI-enabled platforms
  • Ability to type approximately 70 words per minute
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Superior proofreading ability and attention to detail
  • Ability to manage competing priorities for multiple attorneys
  • Ability to work successfully in a focused, deadline-driven environment
Key Responsibilities
Litigation and Legal Support
  • Prepare, revise, format, proofread, and finalize pleadings, motions, briefs, correspondence, memoranda, reports, and other legal documents
  • Coordinate electronic filings in county, state, and federal courts
  • Maintain litigation calendars and monitor filing, discovery, hearing, deposition, and other case deadlines
  • Organize and maintain electronic and physical matter files
  • Assist with document production and the preparation of hearing, deposition, mediation, and trial materials
  • Coordinate with attorneys, paralegals, shared legal assistants, clients, courts, vendors, and other parties
  • Use document-management, e-filing, billing, workflow, and other legal technology platforms
  • Maintain confidentiality regarding client matters, litigation strategy, firm operations, and internal communications
  • Provide support in commercial litigation, bankruptcy, construction, corporate, and related business matters
Administrative and Secretarial Support
  • Provide comprehensive administrative support to multiple attorneys
  • Manage attorney calendars, appointments, meetings, conference calls, and travel schedules
  • Coordinate teleconferences, video conferences, and in-person meetings
  • Convert handwritten notes or dictated material into accurate, professionally formatted documents
  • Prepare and submit travel reimbursements and expense reports
  • Review, organize, and route incoming mail and communications
  • Arrange flights, hotels, conference rooms, courier services, and document-processing assistance
  • Maintain contact lists, scheduling information, and other attorney administrative records
  • Coordinate with the firm’s shared and floating legal-support teams
Professional and Technical Competencies
The strongest candidate will demonstrate:
  • Substantial legal-support experience and confidence working with senior attorneys
  • Exceptional discretion and respect for confidentiality
  • Sound decision-making and practical problem-solving abilities
  • Professional maturity expressed through judgment, composure, accountability, and diplomacy
  • A polished but approachable interpersonal style
  • Initiative and the ability to anticipate attorney needs
  • Independent thinking and a self-directed working style
  • Flexibility when supporting attorneys with different preferences and communication styles
  • Comfort working within a traditional professional environment while embracing innovation
  • Strong technology aptitude and enthusiasm for learning new platforms
  • Ability to remain calm, organized, and effective under demanding deadlines
Compensation and Benefits
Compensation will be commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Benefits include:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance
  • Employer contribution to a health savings account
  • 401(k)
  • Paid time off
  • Optional hybrid work eligibility after 90 days
Confidential Application Process
This confidential search is being conducted by Trend Personnel Services. The law firm’s identity and additional information will be shared with qualified candidates at the appropriate stage of the recruiting process. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.