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Administrative Assistant – Legal/Office Services Jobs in Clearwater, FL at SOFT COMPUTER CONSULTANTS
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POSITION SUMMARY:
The Administrative Assistant provides assistance to the Legal department on client and vendor contracts as well as immigration documents. This position creates, analyzes, and reviews contractual agreements or proposed agreements for conformity to company verbiage, rules, and regulations. Prepares immigration documents and correspondence, and researches law, investigates facts, and prepares documents to assist the department.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Analyzes contracts and gathers relevant facts and information from various company personnel to draft contracts and amendments, detect ambiguities, inaccurate statements, omissions of essential terms, and conflicts.
Participates in pre-contract negotiations with clients, and drafts and revises legal correspondence.
Completes government documents, drafts letters, advises immigrant and non-immigrant employees on procedures and status of their case, and develops strategies for overcoming objections of USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Services).
Tracks important deadlines, maintains a log of client activity, initiates changes in standard form contracts and legal forms, monitors legal publications, and ensures legal publications are up-to-date.
Complies with all approved procedures, directives and guidelines.
Gathers the necessary documentation to file trademark and copyright applications, and maintain the status logs for the corporation.
Comply with all approved procedures, directives and guidelines.
Performs other duties as assigned.
JOB SPECIFICATIONS:
Education Required:
Associate’s Degree, Political Science, Paralegal Studies, Business, English or related field. Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
Experience Required:
1-2 years of experience as a Administrative Assistant or related legal profession in a corporate setting.
Skills Required:
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks at a single time.
Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of WordPerfect for Windows95
Must be proficient with Microsoft Office Word and Excel.
Typing speed of forty-five (45) words per minute.
Travel Required:
None.
Title: Administrative Assistant – Legal/Office Services
Company: SOFT COMPUTER CONSULTANTS
Location: Clearwater, FL
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