Tech Trans Legal Assistant

April 22, 2024

THE OPPORTUNITY

Summit Law Group is seeking a Legal Assistant to join our expanding Tech Transactions practice group. The ideal candidate would like to grow in their knowledge and skills over time to scale up to a contract manager position. At Summit, we value customer service, integrity, mutual respect, and hold high expectations of ourselves and our teammates. Summiteers are reliable, high-performers, upbeat, and reject traditional law-firm hierarchies. Candidates that share our values are encouraged to apply.

POSITION SUMMARY

Our Tech Trans group prides itself on its cooperative, hands-on nature and needs a talented colleague who enjoys consistent, on-site support and interaction to join the team. This position is unique and new. Our goal over time is to train this position up to support the team and our clients as a contract manager. The attorneys in this group are predominantly on-site and thrive with in person interactions. All of our staff here at Summit efficiently deliver proactive support to their attorneys, practice groups, and firm. They are masters of task and project coordination, excellent communicators, uphold confidentiality, and keep their attorneys on course.

The successful applicant will have a minimum of 2 years of legal assistant experience, ideally in transactional law, though we’re happy to train the ideal candidate, if needed. This position handles traditional legal assistant responsibilities with an interest and eagerness on growing and developing the position into a contract manager.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Draft, edit, compare, proofread, and finalize correspondence, reports, and transactional documents
Proactively track and organize transaction deadlines through completion
Maintenance of files, internal templates, and client guidelines
Create and maintain internal process guides
Drive process improvement initiatives
Learn and utilize multiple different client proprietary technology tools
Communicate and develop relationships with clients to build trust and accountability
Ensure team compliance with client, jurisdictional, and firm requirements
Standard legal assistant support including admin support of client files, opening/closing matters, cost reimbursements, calendaring, and communicating with clients and internal Summit teams

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Eager to learn and grow in their careers, and the drive to make it happen
2+ years of legal assistant experience; legal assistant experience preferred, preferably in transactional law
Outstanding document processing abilities in MS Word, including styles, breaks, and tables
Tech-savvy and proficient in the MS Suite, Adobe, DocuSign, SmartSheet, Zoom, NetDocs, and redlining, with the ability to easily learn and utilize new technology
Extremely organized and passionate about project organization and development
Excellent verbal, written, and organizational skills
Commitment to meeting deadlines, follow-through, and attention to detail
Strong interpersonal skills, particularly in accountability, teamwork, and mutual respect
A “run to the fire” approach, including a positive “can-do” attitude, anticipating needs, providing quick responses, and handling short turnaround times

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

Summit strives for competitive compensation and benefit packages. We offer health, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability insurances, with family plans available. Our Employee Assistance Program provides short-term support for mental health services, financial planning, and legal aid. 401K options include Roth and traditional accounts, with matching, profit sharing, and immediate vesting. Summit also offers quarterly and annual bonuses based on firm performance, commuter benefits, and ten paid holidays. This position is primarily onsite and has opportunities for a hybrid schedule. Ideal candidates will prefer an in-office schedule.

While subject to change, we also provide firm-funded HSA accounts, offices for all on-site staff and a dog friendly firm. Salary for this position ranges from $65-90k, depending on experience.

ABOUT SUMMIT

Summit Law Group’s nontraditional law firm model, founded on revolutionizing the way legal services are provided, focuses on a single principle: customer service.

Our mission is to think creatively, to proactively formulate and pursue the most effective, efficient solutions to our clients’ legal needs with small, dedicated teams. Everyone at Summit Law Group is a legal professional who shares in the firm’s success, and our attorneys are equity owners of our business. We have eliminated the inefficiencies inherent in traditional law firms – such as hidden charges, rigid cost structures, and leveraged hierarchy – to focus exclusively on our clients. Our innovative model has been proven by a long, successful track record that covers a broad variety of complex legal issues.

Summit is consistently recognized as a top law firm, both on the regional and national levels, and has been consistently ranked by US News & World Report - Best Lawyers and Chambers USA. Summit was also named Washington Firm of the Year at the 2021, 2022 & 2023 Benchmark Litigation US Awards and has also been recognized as one of Washington’s Best Workplaces for 2021 & 2022 by the Puget Sound Business Journal. We are especially proud that in its 2022 & 2023 Diversity Snapshot, Law360 recognized Summit as being among the leading law firms across the nation for diversity. Additionally, we have consistently received Mansfield Rule Plus Certification since 2022 for our diversity in leadership efforts. Summiteers take pride in working here. You can check out more stories on Summit here: https://www.summitlaw.com/blog/news.

APPLICATION

If you are interested in joining the Summit team, please submit your resume and cover letter via our application portal by clicking here.