Legal Secretary-Real Estate
Staffers Inc.Ridgeland, MS
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Job Description
General Responsibilities:
- Answering the phone.
- Making appointments, calendaring dates, printing materials, organizing documents and filing.
- Travel arrangements.
- Opening new business matters in firm’s system.
- Entering attorney billable time in billing system, reviewing the bills, and working with Accounting to process the billing.
- Revising and proofing draft correspondence, memorandum, documents, and instruments as directed by supervising attorney.
- Assisting supervising attorney as instructed with professional, civic and community responsibilities, events and activities.
- Maintain records as to CLE hours and assist with reporting to the applicable bar association.
- Assist with preparation of resources, PowerPoint slides and other materials for publications for and presentations to clients, professional groups and associations.
- Other duties as assigned by supervising attorney, partner-in-charge or office manager.
Real Estate Responsibilities:
- Receiving requests for title commitments from clients and requesting title reports or certificates of title from abstractor or abstract companies.
- Receiving requests from clients for title updates and requesting same from abstract companies.
- Occasional research of land records, tax records and other computerized records online.
- Tracking of real estate transactions throughout year for purposes of 1099S reporting; completion of 1099 Information Sheets and submission to reporting service.
- Tracking of real estate transactions with foreign companies through FSA 100 and filing same with the applicable Farm Service Agency office.
- Drafting real-estate-related court documents, such as notices of foreclosure, lien notices, authorities to cancel, expert opinions, etc.
- Proofing surveys and legal descriptions.
- Handling trust accounts and other financial aspects of the practice.
- Handling all post-closing responsibilities after real estate closings.
- Preparing status reports for clients.
Supervision Received and/or Given:
- Occasionally work on projects for attorneys in Jackson and other offices in addition to supervising attorney.
- Work closely with attorneys and paralegals on funds received and disbursed through trust accounts.
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