At Johnston, Allison & Hord our ability to provide service to our clients extends past our legal professionals. Paralegals and staff provide support to the Firm's legal activities, while also addressing key non-legal business operations. We appreciate your interest in Johnston, Allison & Hord, an equal opportunity employer.
For information about paralegal and/or staff opportunities at Johnston, Allison & Hord, please see below for job listings.
Current Openings
Litigation Legal Assistance
The law firm of Johnston, Allison & Hord is seeking a Legal Administrative Assistant with 5+ years of experience in construction law, construction litigation, and commercial civil litigation specifically to support multiple attorneys. This position requires a high level of professionalism in all aspects of administrative duties to include answering multiple phone lines, preparing correspondence, memos, and spreadsheets, preparing form documents, proficiency with court filings in both federal and state courts, handling incoming/outgoing faxes and mail, filing, importing electronic documents, document formatting, scanning documents, client billing and time entry/edit, opening/closing client/case files, performing thorough conflict checks, scheduling meetings and calendaring accordingly, docketing, reserving conference rooms, making travel arrangements, and submitting check requests/expense reports.
This position also requires excellent organizational skills to maintain a high volume of documents, excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills, accurate typing of 70+ wpm and proofreading skills, and the ability to handle several projects at one time and meet multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Knowledge of Microsoft Office 2010 products to include Advanced Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel, PDF Software, DM, Workshare, and Juris Suite are preferred.
Teamwork among other assistants with overflow, support during vacations, back-up support for receptionist, etc. is essential.
We offer an excellent salary and benefit package.
Please submit resume to: ksmethurst@jahlaw.com
Commercial Real Estate Legal Assistant
The law firm of Johnston, Allison & Hord is seeking an Administrative Assistant with 5+ years of experience in commercial real estate and transactional work. This includes all aspects of administrative duties, preparing legal documents, preparing commercial real estate closing binders/CDs, spreadsheets, handling incoming/outgoing faxes and mail, filing, importing electronic documents, document formatting, scanning documents, client billing and time entry/edit, opening new client/case files, performing thorough conflict checks, scheduling meetings and calendaring accordingly, reserving conference rooms, making travel arrangements, and submitting check requests/expense reports.
This position requires excellent organizational skills to maintain a high volume of documents, excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills, accurate typing of 70+ wpm and proofreading skills, and the ability to handle several projects at one time and meet multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Knowledge of Microsoft Office 2010 products to include Advanced Word, Outlook and Excel, PDF Software, DM, Workshare, and Juris preferred.
Teamwork among other assistants with overflow, support during vacations, back-up support for receptionist, etc. is essential.
We offer an excellent salary and benefit package.
Please submit resume to: ksmethurst@jahlaw.com
Search Firms and Staffing Agencies:
Johnston, Allison & Hord, P.A. (“JAH”) does not accept unsolicited resumes from any search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of JAH and JAH will not be obligated to pay a referral fee. This includes, but is not limited to, resumes submitted directly to attorneys or employees of JAH.
