Legal Assistant Job Listing at Stifel in Saint Louis, MO (Job ID 8346)

Description

The Legal Assistant will provide support to attorneys and resolve legal issues. The Legal Assistant works closely with business counterparts, checks and examines law sources such as statutes, recorded judicial decisions, and legal articles, and prepares documents, correspondence, and to organize and maintain documents in paper and electronic filing systems.  The Legal Assistant will also complete administrative tasks, such as booking travel and expense reports.

• Gather research data, such as statutes, decisions, and legal articles, codes, and other documents and draft responses to discovery requests.
• Inputs data, maintains and updates litigation matter management system and its service of process tracking database. 
• Create, maintain and update files. 
• Performs quality control checks on documents to ensure accuracy and compliance with attorney instructions. 
• Schedule appointments, prepare and submit expense reports and coordinate travel. 
• Reviews all new subpoenas and locates relevant information. 
• Contact and respond to questions from branches, other business areas, attorneys, and government agencies.
• Support the Legal Department by participating in intake functions, triaging incoming and pending matters, assisting with special projects, and completing high-level administrative tasks, as needed.
• Collaborate, consult, and provide information to Legal Department attorneys and staff, outside counsel and collaborate with line of business.

• Ability to analyze legal documents and assess whether additional documentation or information is necessary in order for the Firm to take action in a particular case.
• Ability to learn the various areas of the company to access information and know what documents and information are created and how to retrieve such documents or information if necessary to analyze and respond to legal documents received.
• Excellent communication and time management skills.

• Minimum Required: Associate's degree or its equivalent.
• Minimum Required: 3+ years of experience supporting an in-house legal department.  Previous experience working in Financial Services preferred. 

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook

Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up.  We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas.  Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients' money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.

While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations.  Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more.  Let's talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.