Legal Administrative Clerk
Edward Jones
Our Legal Response Team serves as a critical partner to the firm, managing legal requests, court orders, litigation matters, and regulatory inquiries while helping protect the firm, its clients, and its associates. This team works across a variety of legal workstreams and collaborates with business partners, attorneys, courts, and outside counsel to ensure timely, accurate, and risk-conscious responses.
As a Legal Administrative Clerk, you'll play a key role in providing administrative support for litigation and regulatory matters, with a primary focus on intake, assessment, triage, assignments and file opening. You'll work independently on a variety of legal matters, helping to mitigate risk through accuracy and efficiency, while collaborating with a highly engaged legal team.
What You'll Do
- Research and gather information from internal systems, attorneys, courts, and external parties.
- Process, review, and track legal documents, expenses and deadlines, including intake, scanning, and case assignment.
- Maintain case management records, including opening/closing files and updating legal and regulatory documentation.
- Support attorneys and paralegals by managing priorities, deadlines, correspondence, invoices, and reports.
- Create and maintain spreadsheets, templates, and departmental reporting.
- Handle highly confidential information with sound judgment and appropriate escalation when needed.
- Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while ensuring accuracy and compliance.