Legal Assistant – Dallas

RMO LLP is a premier probate litigation law firm serving clients from around the world in courts throughout California and Texas. Our team is passionate about delivering excellence in trust, estate, probate, and guardianship litigation, offering comprehensive support to clients navigating complex legal and emotional issues. With a client-centered approach, we prioritize achieving the best possible outcome for our clients while upholding the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and ethics.

We are looking for an experienced litigation legal assistant to join our Dallas office.

Who We Are Looking For?

• The ideal candidate is committed to excellence, enthusiastic, flexible, organized, detail-oriented, and a team player with strong interpersonal communication skills. 
• They should thrive in a fast-paced, evolving, litigation environment. 
• They must have legal experience supporting multiple individuals, an ability to prioritize, balance and communicate around competing needs, and accommodate changing structural and support requirements.
• They exercise excellent judgment and decision-making skills.
• They can independently and effectively manage multiple priorities and time.
• Principal responsibilities include but are not limited to: 
  • all aspects of litigation support; 
  • preparing and filing documents in court;  
  • creating internal files; 
  • filing, photocopying, scanning; faxing; mailing correspondence; 
  • processing incoming and outgoing mail;
  • document management and organization; 
  • drafting correspondence and legal forms; 
  • analyze legal documents for accuracy and completeness; strong proof-reader;
  • greeting clients and other guests; 
  • processing e-Filings; 
  • maintaining attorneys’ general calendar; 
  • coordinating messengers and deliveries; 
  • assisting attorneys with trial preparations; 
  • and other clerical duties as they arise.
• The right candidate should be welcoming, confident, patient, and compassionate. 
• Experience in litigation is required.
• Experience as a legal assistant or paralegal in probate, trust, estate, guardianship litigation, and administration is preferred.
• Knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, Excel, Adobe Acrobat Reader, MS Office is required.
• Knowledge of Smokeball is beneficial. 

What’s In It For You?

• A Sustainable and Fulfilling Career: Every team member plays an integral role in ensuring our clients’ successes, and we value those whose diligent contributions make a difference, which allows us all to have meaningful, challenging, and satisfying careers that make a difference in the lives of our team, our clients and communities.
• An Opportunity for Career Advancement: We believe in and support our achieving team members’ desire to grow, improve and advance, and when that growth involves new learning opportunities that facilitates new responsibilities we champion their growth and advancement.
• A Supportive, Collaborative Team Environment: At least monthly, we recognize and celebrate team member accomplishments at every level of the firm. We also welcome and reward team member contributions to improving the RMO “way” through our RMOInnovates program. In addition, regular individual and firm-wide check-ins and best practice reviews help keep us strong.
• Work/Life Balance: Firm leadership’s experience in “big law” has helped shape the firm’s adoption of a “work to live” over a “live to work” mentality, which means that while we are committed to excellence and our collective and individual professional goals we also understand our team members to have lives and commitment outside of work, which we wholly support.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k) with firm contribution
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Paid time off, including sick and vacation time
• Parental leave
• Basic life insurance
• Discretionary, performance-based bonuses
• Paid parking

Schedule:

• 8-hour shift

Education:

• Paralegal Certificate from an ABA approved paralegal degree program is preferred
• Certified Paralegal or Certified Legal Assistant designation is preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree also preferred

Work Location: 

• 100% in-office role, but with some remote working flexibility. 
• RMO LLP’s Dallas Office