Legal Assistant

Overview

Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

The Legal Assistant will provide support to attorneys and resolve legal issues. The Legal Assistant works closely with business counterparts, checks and examines law sources such as statutes, judicial decisions, and legal articles, and prepares documents and correspondence. The role includes organizing and maintaining documents in paper and electronic filing systems and completing administrative tasks such as booking travel and managing expense reports.

• Gather research data, such as statutes, decisions, and legal articles, codes, and other documents, and draft responses to discovery requests.
• Input data, maintain and update litigation matter management systems and service of process tracking databases.
• Create, maintain and update files.
• Perform quality control checks on documents to ensure accuracy and compliance with attorney instructions.
• Schedule appointments, prepare and submit expense reports, and coordinate travel.
• Review all new subpoenas and locate relevant information.
• Contact and respond to questions from branches, other business areas, attorneys, and government agencies.
• Support the Legal Department by participating in intake functions, triaging incoming and pending matters, assisting with special projects, and completing high-level administrative tasks as needed.
• Collaborate, consult, and provide information to Legal Department attorneys and staff, outside counsel, and collaborate with line of business.

• Ability to analyze legal documents and assess whether additional documentation or information is necessary for the Firm to take action.
• Ability to learn the various areas of the company to access information and retrieve documents or information as needed to analyze and respond to legal documents received.
• Excellent communication and time management skills.

• Minimum
  
  Required:
  
  Associate s degree or its equivalent.
• Minimum
  
  Required:
  
  3+ years of experience supporting an in-house legal department. Previous experience working in Financial Services preferred.

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook

Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, the firm’s success is tied to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success. While our headquarters is in St.

Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment and a comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.