Patent Assistant (San Diego, CA)
Fish & Richardson is a premier global intellectual property law firm, and they are seeking a Patent Assistant to join their San Diego team. The role involves providing administrative support to legal staff, including reviewing and proofreading correspondence, scheduling meetings, and managing calendars.
Responsibilities
- Provide administrative support to legal staff and paralegals
- Review, edit, and proofread correspondence
- Establish and maintain calendars and deadline systems
- Schedule travel arrangements, reimbursements, meetings and conferences for legal staff and maintain their calendars as requested
- Perform overload typing, filing, photocopying, document downloading, or reception relief as time permits and as requested by other legal staff or management
- Open new matters and prepare engagement letters
- Process vendor invoices
Skills
- High School Diploma or equivalent is required
- Ability to prioritize and organize multiple deadlines
- Ability to use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to complete assigned tasks
- Ability to work in the San Diego office a minimum of 2 days per week is required
- 1 plus years of experience of administrative support within a legal firm environment is preferred
- 1 plus years of experience reviewing, proofreading and editing invoices
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- Generous paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
- Back-up child care
- Health and wellness initiatives
Company Overview
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