Legal Assistant Jobs in California

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The following top skills are often required or desired to land a Legal Assistant position

• Administrative Skills
• Bankruptcy
• Bilingual
• Briefs
• Business Correspondence
• Calendar Management
• Calendaring
• Civil Rights
• Client Contact
• Client Intake
• Closing
• Communication Skills
• Computer Skills
• Corel WordPerfect
• Court Filings
• Dictation
• Docketing
• Document Management
• Document Production
• Drafting
• Drafting Legal Correspondence
• Drafting Pleadings
• eDiscovery
• E-Filing
• Estate Planning
• Family Law
• File Management
• Filing
• General Office Duties
• Handling
• Immigration Law
• Inbound/Outbound Calling
• Legal Assisting
• Legal Document Preparation
• Legal Research & Writing
• Legal Terminology
• LexisNexis
• Litigation
• Litigation Support
• Management
• Materials Management
• Medical Malpractice Law
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Word
• Multitasking
• Organization
• Personal Injury Law
• Pre-litigation
• Presentation
• Prioritizing
• Probate
• Proofreading
• Research Skills
• Scheduling
• Scheduling Appointments
• Software
• Spanish
• Staff Supervision
• Subpoenas
• Telephone Skills
• Time Management
• Training and Development
• Trial Preparation
• Typing
• Verbal Communication
• Westlaw
• Wills

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