LEGAL ASSISTANT RESUME EXAMPLE

Updated: July 06, 2025 - The Legal Assistant supports the General Counsel in legal research, drafting, training, and ensuring regulatory compliance in areas such as telecommunications and data security. This role involves coordinating corporate governance tasks, maintaining legal documentation and contract systems, and serving as the main contact for insurance matters. Additionally, the assistant manages administrative duties, oversees contract signature workflows, and implements legal technologies to improve departmental efficiency.

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1. Legal Assistant, Foster & McDaniel LLP, Athens, GA

Job Summary: 

  • Registers LLCs and corporations and prepares related organizational documents
  • Researches the name availability on the Division of Corporation website
  • Prepares and obtains EINs for companies
  • Clearly and accurately sends status updates to clients
  • Prepares transmittal letters to clients enclosing draft and/or execution documents
  • Meets with clients to execute documents
  • Prepares, processes, and proofreads legal and administrative correspondence and documents
  • Maintains files, communicates with clients, opposing counsels, courts, agencies, and the general public
  • Prepares and processes outgoing mail, arranges for specialized mail or messenger service
  • Maintains and updates calendars for attorneys, including meetings, appointments, due dates, and client-related activities
  • Keeps client internal updates current
  • Prepares daily time entries for work completed
  • Proactively demonstrates effective teamwork and assists other staff members as time permits
  • Receives and screens telephone calls, takes messages
  • Arranges a conference room for meetings and consultations
  • Completes intake forms and requests missing information from clients
  • Proactively anticipates the needs of attorneys, plans, and meets deadlines
  • Serves as back-up to the Receptionist


Skills on Resume: 

  • Entity Registration (Hard Skills)
  • Name Research (Hard Skills)
  • EIN Preparation (Hard Skills)
  • Document Drafting (Hard Skills)
  • Client Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Calendar Management (Hard Skills)
  • Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
  • Proactive Support (Soft Skills)

2. Junior Legal Assistant, Harrison Legal Group, Green Bay, WI

Job Summary: 

  • Digital dictation, docket entry, preparation of accounts, opening files/closing files, organizing and maintaining files
  • Prepare and edit correspondence and legal documents
  • Review documentation and claims from new files
  • Provide consistent backup support when assistants are absent, manage multiple tasks, and work proactively as a positive and productive member of the team
  • Take responsibility for greeting and screening clients
  • Receive and relay telephone messages and notes.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Digital Dictation (Hard Skills)
  • Docket Entry (Hard Skills)
  • File Management (Hard Skills)
  • Document Preparation (Hard Skills)
  • Claims Review (Hard Skills)
  • Backup Support (Soft Skills)
  • Client Reception (Soft Skills)
  • Message Handling (Soft Skills)

3. Legal Assistant, Elmwood Law Associates, Port Orchard, WA

Job Summary: 

  • Support 2 busy partners
  • Handle all litigation scheduling (hearings, depositions, mediations, trials)
  • Handle communication with clients, witnesses, etc.
  • Administratively support and attend trials
  • Summarize depositions and medical records
  • Create medical bill charts
  • Type up basic legal documents and correspondence using template forms for attorney review
  • Answer phone calls related to litigation scheduling and litigation cases
  • Monitor deadlines and juggle two attorney calendars


Skills on Resume: 

  • Partner Support (Soft Skills)
  • Litigation Scheduling (Hard Skills)
  • Client Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Trial Support (Hard Skills)
  • Deposition Summaries (Hard Skills)
  • Medical Charting (Hard Skills)
  • Document Typing (Hard Skills)
  • Deadline Monitoring (Hard Skills)

4. Legal Assistant, Brighton & Clark Attorneys, Littleton, CO

Job Summary: 

  • Providing administrative support to multiple attorneys
  • Calendaring appointments and court appearances, and deadlines on the calendar
  • Drafting and sending correspondence to clients and courts
  • Saving documents in a document management system
  • Taking responsibility for answering phones


Skills on Resume: 

  • Attorney Support (Soft Skills)
  • Calendar Management (Hard Skills)
  • Correspondence Drafting (Hard Skills)
  • Client Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Court Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Document Saving (Hard Skills)
  • Document Management (Hard Skills)
  • Phone Handling (Soft Skills)

5. Legal Assistant, Vela Legal Partners, Bakersfield, CA

Job Summary: 

  • Assist legal counsel with responding to subpoenas and other document requests.
  • Assist legal counsel and paralegals with clerical functions to improve the efficiency and performance of the Legal Department.
  • File and perform file maintenance, including the opening, closing, and retention process for each.
  • Process and code invoices for payment and maintain the database relating to the same
  • Communicate with inside counsel, outside counsel, and vendors regarding the same.
  • Maintain tracking logs.
  • Sort and distribute department mail.
  • Assist with document review for administrative claims or litigation.
  • Assist with the coordination of the contract review process, including maintenance of contract databases.
  • Draft and send correspondence.
  • Upload and scan documents.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Subpoena Response (Hard Skills)
  • Clerical Support (Soft Skills)
  • File Maintenance (Hard Skills)
  • Invoice Processing (Hard Skills)
  • Legal Communication (Soft Skills)
  • Log Maintenance (Hard Skills)
  • Mail Distribution (Soft Skills)
  • Document Review (Hard Skills)

6. Legal Assistant, Sullivan & Randall Law, Tupelo, MS

Job Summary: 

  • Interview new clients
  • Set up appointments with new clients
  • Collect all possible information, evidence, and documentation that will help the legal department build a case
  • Strict compliance with the schedule of assigned appointments
  • Use of the Firm's software (training will be provided) for data entry of new clients
  • Scan the documentation needed for the case and save it into the Firm's system
  • Generate a daily/weekly report with results for all assigned tasks


Skills on Resume: 

  • Client Interviewing (Soft Skills)
  • Appointment Scheduling (Hard Skills)
  • Information Collection (Hard Skills)
  • Schedule Compliance (Soft Skills)
  • Data Entry (Hard Skills)
  • Document Scanning (Hard Skills)
  • System Saving (Hard Skills)
  • Report Generation (Hard Skills)

7. Legal Assistant, Calhoun Law Offices, Midland, TX

Job Summary: 

  • Document management and organization, including saving to the network, filing, indexing, and drafting correspondence
  • Take responsibility for calendaring and scheduling
  • Process business and vendor expenses
  • Create check requests
  • Draft page/line deposition summaries
  • Prepare subpoenas and summarize complaint allegations
  • Summarize medical records
  • Conduct general online research using Lexis/Westlaw
  • Communicate directly with clients
  • Maintain paper filing and indexing for the office on all client matters
  • Maintain reception, kitchen, and conference room areas
  • Order and maintain office supplies
  • Answer the main office line in a professional manner and direct calls appropriately


Skills on Resume: 

  • Document Management (Hard Skills)
  • Calendar Scheduling (Hard Skills)
  • Expense Processing (Hard Skills)
  • Check Requests (Hard Skills)
  • Deposition Summaries (Hard Skills)
  • Subpoena Preparation (Hard Skills)
  • Medical Summaries (Hard Skills)
  • Legal Research (Hard Skills)

8. Legal Assistant, O’Connor & Weaver Attorneys, Fargo, ND

Job Summary: 

  • Provide legal and administrative support to Partners and attorneys
  • Attorney time recording and matter case opening
  • Assist Paralegals in organizing case files and record maintenance
  • Create, prepare, proofread, and amend high-volume complex legal documents, pleadings, letters, and emails
  • File pleadings with courts using various means, including electronic court filing systems.
  • Assist with travel arrangements upon request, including car, hotel, and airfare reservations, and complete the attorney's monthly expenses to accounting
  • Administrative work, including billing, correspondence, and reporting to clients
  • Calendar maintenance, such as scheduling hearings, depositions, meetings, and knowing civil and federal court deadline filing dates


Skills on Resume: 

  • Legal Support (Soft Skills)
  • Time Recording (Hard Skills)
  • Case Organization (Hard Skills)
  • Document Preparation (Hard Skills)
  • Court Filing (Hard Skills)
  • Travel Arrangements (Soft Skills)
  • Administrative Billing (Hard Skills)
  • Calendar Maintenance (Hard Skills)

9. Legal Assistant, Pioneer Legal Services, Owensboro, KY

Job Summary: 

  • Take initial instructions and opening/closing files to be passed to the fee earners.
  • Maintain and update client information on electrical and physical files.
  • Deal with telephone enquiries from new clients and liaise with clients and business associates to update them on ongoing matters.
  • Conduct searches, client checks, Land Registry searches, and take money on account.
  • Put up and frank all posts created during the day.
  • Provide administrative support to Fee Earners and the Office Manager.
  • General office housekeeping of files.
  • Assist with the general conveyancing process from start to finish.


Skills on Resume: 

  • File Management (Hard Skills)
  • Client Information Updating (Hard Skills)
  • Client Liaison (Soft Skills)
  • Conduct Searches (Hard Skills)
  • Post Handling (Hard Skills)
  • Administrative Support (Soft Skills)
  • Office Housekeeping (Soft Skills)
  • Conveyancing Assistance (Hard Skills)

10. Legal Assistant, Birchwood Law Firm, Bismarck, ND

Job Summary: 

  • Provide administrative support to nominated fee earners to ensure effective and efficient administration, management, and maintenance of files from opening to archiving
  • Effectively handle post (incoming, outgoing, and filing).
  • Ensure the filing system is kept tidy and follows National Practice Standards
  • Screen telephone calls and take relevant messages or deal with enquiries from clients, executives, and others
  • Independently prepare precedent letters, simple letters, attendances, and internal memoranda, and provide effective support, guidance, and delegation to colleagues
  • Lodge documents and complete court forms
  • Conduct legal research


Skills on Resume: 

  • Administrative Support (Soft Skills)
  • Post Handling (Hard Skills)
  • File Maintenance (Hard Skills)
  • Call Screening (Soft Skills)
  • Letter Preparation (Hard Skills)
  • Colleague Support (Soft Skills)
  • Court Filing (Hard Skills)
  • Legal Research (Hard Skills)

11. Legal Assistant, Metro Legal Advisors, Cedar Rapids, IA

Job Summary: 

  • Support General Counsel in policy-related research, drafting, and training, and in creating and maintaining guidelines to help streamline processes.
  • Facilitate the legal department's corporate responsibilities related to governance and entity maintenance, as well as group subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • Provide general administrative support to the legal department and aid in reporting to internal stakeholders and leadership.
  • Implement and manage legal technologies to promote department efficiency and scalability, including contract management systems and document repositories.
  • Develop, implement, and manage a signature process on contracts and storage in a centralized repository.
  • Support general counsel in the management of telecommunications and data security regulatory compliance-related activities.
  • Serve as the prime point of contact for insurance-related matters.
  • Perform first-line contract review of contracts, vendor onboarding forms, and questionnaires.


Skills on Resume: 

  • Policy Research (Hard Skills)
  • Entity Maintenance (Hard Skills)
  • Admin Support (Soft Skills)
  • Tech Management (Hard Skills)
  • Signature Management (Hard Skills)
  • Compliance Support (Hard Skills)
  • Insurance Matters (Soft Skills)
  • Contract Review (Hard Skills)

12. Legal Assistant, Lakeside Legal Group, Auburn, NY

Job Summary: 

  • Draft, revise, and translate contracts and legal documents
  • Provide professional advice on all range of legal matters
  • Maintain and update the internal database on time
  • Research in various Corporate matters
  • Provide other legal support to Associates and Partners
  • Assist in ad-hoc business projects


Skills on Resume: 

  • Contract Drafting (Hard Skills)
  • Legal Advising (Hard Skills)
  • Database Updating (Hard Skills)
  • Corporate Research (Hard Skills)
  • Legal Support (Soft Skills)
  • Project Assistance (Soft Skills)
  • Document Translation (Hard Skills)
  • Ad-hoc Tasks (Soft Skills)

13. Legal Assistant, Canyon Ridge Law, Mesa, AZ

Job Summary: 

  • HR data entry into the Human Resources Information System (HRIS), including personnel, payroll, and benefits data
  • Support employees with HR related questions
  • Assist with employee onboarding and employee life cycle
  • Administer the stock administration program through Certent
  • Maintain the corporate calendar for the leadership team
  • Assist the legal department with organization
  • Log new legal matters, correspondence, contracts, and other documentation into matter, document, and contract management systems.
  • Prepare draft company filings


Skills on Resume: 

  • HR Data Entry (Hard Skills)
  • Employee Support (Soft Skills)
  • Onboarding Assistance (Soft Skills)
  • Stock Administration (Hard Skills)
  • Calendar Management (Hard Skills)
  • Legal Organization (Soft Skills)
  • Matter Logging (Hard Skills)
  • Draft Filings (Hard Skills)

14. Legal Assistant, Sterling Law and Mediation, Rapid City, SD

Job Summary: 

  • Assist the Commercial Division leasing agents with the assembly of deal packages to be presented to senior management for approval.
  • Assemble information, including the collection of financial and/or background check information that is required to support the standardized deal sheet, and assemble the full package to be presented for approval.  
  • Track deal packages through the internal approval process and initiate the assignment of approved deals to outside counsel or an in-house attorney.
  • Scan and file commercial leases, lease renewals, and other tenant-related documents
  • Prepare leases and lease-related documents for signature by senior management
  • Maintain Excel tracking spreadsheets for leases, lease renewals, and other agreements (collectively “Documents”) under negotiation and coordinate and assign tasks required to be completed with internal property management, leasing, and construction staff in connection with such Documents.
  • Coordinate and track outside counsel or in-house attorney activity to ensure negotiation of Documents is occurring in a timely and complete manner, and be able to provide status updates.
  • Draft correspondence to commercial tenants, lenders, brokers, etc., and prepare documents for mailing
  • Draft miscellaneous minor agreements, letters, and other related documents necessary for the business of the company and coordinate with company staff, including assisting property management staff with the completion of standard vendor or purchasing agreements and purchase orders.
  • Perform legal research or complete examination of specific lease conditions to respond to unique lease-related circumstances or questions of the Head of Retail. 
  • Review circumstances with legal advisors (outside counsel and in-house attorney) and offer comprehensive research or a recommendation regarding an action plan for next steps.
  • Receive and review notices received from tenants for special circumstances such as co-tenancy failure, sales kickout, and other tenant notices.
  • Coordinate with company staff and outside counsel, and prepare and issue response documents or coordinate the issuance of response documents prepared by others.
  • Assist other departments such as construction, property management, accounting, and lease administration with the management of critical dates, including Execution, Delivery, Opening, and Vacate dates.
  • Assist Commercial Division leasing agents and the Head of Retail with the interface with outside leasing brokers.
  • Provide property information to the Brokers as they may request.
  • Manage and process broker invoices to ensure compliance with executed agreements.
  • Monitor all commercial landlord-tenant proceedings and eviction matters and coordinate with the commercial division staff, including legal advisors.
  • Track the status of efforts to collect past due amounts in conjunction with the efforts of accounting staff and legal advisors.
  • Field telephone calls and emails from tenants and funnel to the appropriate commercial division and/or legal staff
  • Prepare reports covering various items as requested by attorneys, auditors, partners, and lenders
  • Protect the employer’s privacy and data, and keep passwords safe


Skills on Resume: 

  • Deal Package Assembly (Hard Skills)
  • Info Collection (Hard Skills)
  • Approval Tracking (Hard Skills)
  • Document Management (Hard Skills)
  • Excel Tracking (Hard Skills)
  • Status Updates (Soft Skills)
  • Correspondence Drafting (Hard Skills)
  • Legal Research (Hard Skills)