State Farm is a Fortune 50 company dedicated to helping people and investing in communities. They are seeking a Legal Secretary to support attorneys with various legal procedures, including calendaring, scheduling, and filing, while interacting with clients and courts throughout the litigation process.
Responsibilities
- Apply specialized knowledge of legal procedures
- Calendar management, processing mail, electronic/paper filing
- Schedule litigation events, including depositions, mediations and hearings
- Drafting routine correspondence and legal documents
Skills
- 1 years of recent civil defense litigation secretarial experience preferably in insurance defense or personal injury
- Knowledge of legal and medical terminology, local and state rules regarding pleadings and pre-trial matters, deadlines, and filing requirements
- Calendaring and scheduling experience within a legal environment
- Strong organizational skills, prioritizing urgent and non-urgent tasks (items with deadlines, handling demands), multitasking
- E-filing experience
- Ability to adapt to a corporate law environment
- Strong written and oral communication skills (proofreading, attention to detail, formatting)
- Accurate typing skills
- Working knowledge of Indiana electronic filing system
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
- Working knowledge of Case Management system
- Working knowledge of Document Storage system
- Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately
- Knowledge of legal and medical terminology, local and state rules regarding pleadings and pre-trial matters, deadlines, and filing requirement (strongly preferred)
Benefits
- Robust health and wellbeing programs
- Multiple healthcare plan options
- 100% coverage for in-network preventative care
- Access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals
- Educational benefits like industry leading training programs
- Top-notch tuition assistance programs
- Employee resource groups
- Mentoring
- Fertility/IVF/adoption assistance
- College coaching
- National discount programs
- Interactive monthly financial workshops
- Free financial coaching
- Generous time off policies
- Initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave
- Paid holidays
- Celebration day
- Life leave (40 hours/year)
- Bereavement leave
- Community service/education support days
- Matching Gift Program
- Good Neighbor Grant Program
- Employee Assistance Fund
- 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary
Company Overview
At State Farm®, our mission is to help people manage the risks of everyday life, recover from the unexpected, and realize their dreams. It was founded in 1922, and is headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, US, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.statefarm.com/careers.