Legal Assistant

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🌲 Oregon – Remote

🌲 Oregon – Remote

💵 $75k - $85k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Assistant

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Compassion & Choices

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1980

🏥 Healthcare

🤝 Non-profit

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Non-profit • Healthcare Insurance

Compassion & Choices is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering individuals and families to make informed decisions about end-of-life healthcare. They provide resources, training, and support to navigate complex medical options, advocate for medical aid-in-dying laws, and engage in litigation to protect patient rights. The organization's mission includes transforming end-of-life medicine by promoting patient-directed care and ensuring that all communities have access to appropriate end-of-life resources and information.

📋 Description

• Support up to six attorneys managing multiple active litigation matters, including administrative tasks • Maintain and optimize the paperless office • Prioritize competing assignments, track deadlines, manage complex calendars, and adjust priorities in response to changing litigation demands • Anticipate attorneys’ needs, identify scheduling conflicts and workflow challenges, and address issues proactively • Communicate priorities, identify competing demands, provide timely status updates, and ensure attorneys have needed information and materials • Provide substantive support for written and oral discovery, including drafting discovery shells and initial responses and preparing exhibits for oral depositions • Conduct intake and evaluation of legal requests from prospective clients and screen appropriate plaintiffs • Cite check and proofread as needed • Maintain electronic case files and manage litigation documents • Identify opportunities to improve digital workflows and operational efficiency • Create and maintain research and memo archives • Create and maintain pleading shells, templates, and sample briefs and pleadings • Support organization-wide Compassion & Choices efforts, including fundraising activities as requested • Report to the Director of Litigation within the Legal Advocacy & Policy department

🎯 Requirements

• A four-year degree (B.A. or B.S.) in a field related to law, medicine, or social change • Minimum of five years of experience in a litigation-focused legal office, law firm, or legal advocacy organization • Experience providing simultaneous administrative and litigation support to multiple attorneys • Experience supporting four or more attorneys with competing deadlines and active litigation caseloads is strongly preferred • Exceptional written communication skills, including drafting, editing, and proofreading legal correspondence and litigation documents • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret complex legal documents, including pleadings, motions, court orders, discovery requests, statutes, regulations, and judicial opinions • Proactive problem-solving and ability to identify potential problems before they affect litigation deadlines or attorney workflows • Ability to independently prioritize competing requests from multiple attorneys • Sound judgment in distinguishing matters resolvable independently from substantive legal questions requiring attorney direction • Professionalism and discretion, including strict confidentiality of privileged and sensitive information • Adaptability and reliability in a fast-paced litigation environment • Clear, tactful communication with attorneys, clients, court personnel, colleagues, and diverse audiences • Advanced knowledge of or experience with civil litigation procedures, court rules, filing requirements, discovery processes, legal document preparation, and litigation calendaring • Experience with federal and state electronic court filing systems, including PACER/CM/ECF • Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint), Adobe Acrobat Pro, Westlaw, Clio, DocketBird, and comparable legal research, document management, and case management platforms • Discovery support experience, including document collection, review, organization, Bates numbering, and production • Must be able and willing to travel and have their own means of transportation where applicable • Must be energized by the organization's stated values • Current résumé and cover letter submitted as one PDF document • Cover letter explaining alignment with Compassion & Choices' mission, relevant experience and qualifications, and approach to collaboration and professional values

🏖️ Benefits

• Employer-shared medical and dental insurance premiums • Employer-paid short- and long-term disability insurance • Employer-paid life insurance • Employer-paid accidental death and dismemberment insurance • Flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care • Commuter pre-tax benefit • 401(k) with a generous 5% employer match • Immediate 401(k) vesting upon eligibility • Paid holidays • Paid time off • Personal days

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