Legal Assistant Jobs in Illinois
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Labor & Employment Legal Assistant
- Lake Bluff, IL
- 14 hours ago
Legal Assistant - Post Judgment
- Naperville, IL
- 2 hours ago
- Chicago, IL
- 4 days ago
- Waukegan, IL
- 5 days ago
Legal Assistant - Medical Malpractice
- Chicago, IL
- 5 days ago
Hybrid Paralegal/Legal Assistant
- Chicago, IL
- 6 days ago
Remote Paralegal / Legal Assistant
- Chicago, IL
- 7 days ago
State Attorney's Office, 5th Circuit- Legal Assistant I - 21010412
- Bushnell, IL
- 7 days ago
- Chicago, IL
- 8 days ago
Legal Assistant - State's Attorney
- Bloomington, IL
- 8 days ago
- Aurora, IL
- 8 days ago
- Chicago, IL
- 8 days ago
Summer Law Intern-Pathways/Law Clerk
- Chicago, IL
- 10 days ago
Seeking Legal Assistant/Paralegal
- Chicago, IL
- 10 days ago
Summer Law Intern-Pathways/Law Clerk
- Chicago, IL
- 11 days ago
Demographic Data for Illinois
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Licensing / Certification
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Highest Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree (33.5%)
- Doctorate Degree (28.5%)
- Associate's Degree (14.2%)
- Master's Degree (8.9%)
- High School or GED (6.9%)
- Vocational Degree or Certification (6.5%)
- Some College (1.3%)
- Some High School (0.2%)
Average Work Experience
- Less than 1 year (40.5%)
- 1-2 years (20.3%)
- None (18.0%)
- 2-4 years (9.6%)
- 4-6 years (7.9%)
- 6-8 years (2.4%)
- 8-10 years (1.1%)
Qualifications / Skill Sets
The following top skills are often required or desired to land a Legal Assistant position
= trending- Administrative Skills
- Appellate
- Bankruptcy
- Bilingual
- Briefs
- Business Correspondence
- Calendar Management
- Calendaring
- Case Management
- Clerical
- Client Contact
- Client Intake
- Closing
- Communication Skills
- Corel WordPerfect
- Court Filings
- Criminal Defense
- Docketing
- Document Management
- Document Production
- Drafting
- E-Filing
- English
- Estate Planning
- Family Law
- File Management
- Filing
- General Office Duties
- Grammar
- iManage
- Immigration Law
- Investigation
- Legal Assisting
- Legal Document Preparation
- Legal Research & Writing
- Legal Terminology
- LexisNexis
- Litigation
- Litigation Support
- Management
- Mediation
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Word
- Multitasking
- Organization
- Personal Injury Law
- Probate
- Project Coordination
- Proofreading
- Regulations
- Relativity
- Research and Writing
- Research Skills
- Scheduling
- Software
- Spanish
- Subpoenas
- Telephone Skills
- Time Management
- Training and Development
- Trial Preparation
- Typing
- Westlaw
- Written Communication
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