IP Legal Secretary
999 3rd Ave Suite 3900 Seattle, WA 98104 US
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Schedule telephone interviews between attorneys and USPTO Examiners.
- If requested by an attorney, answer telephone and gives information to callers and routes call to appropriate individual, takes messages and places outgoing calls.
- Electronically file correspondence, including emails, and other documents and records into NetDocs.
- Maintain attorneys' client contact information.
- Assist with opening and closing of client matters and prepare engagement letters.
- Review and edit billing proformas. This includes working with the assigned billing specialist to prepare client invoices, create cover letters, and send client invoices.
- Maintain and create spreadsheets to track client annual invoice totals.
- Enter attorney time into time entry system, Intapp Time.
- Draft, revise, edit and proofread documents.
- Set-up and maintain hard copy files for client matters, if requested.
- Schedule various events and meetings to include coordinating travel arrangements, reserving internal conference rooms, and reserving guest offices (across all offices).
- If requested by an attorney, maintain attorney calendar to include informal docketing and scheduling.
- Enroll attorneys in CLE courses and assist with CLE questions and recording.
- Complete annual bar dues and professional membership renewals.
- Process timely expense reimbursements through ChromeRiver.
- Back up other secretaries during planned and unplanned secretary absences.
- Other duties as requested and assigned.