Legal Secretary, Regulatory

Plona Partners

📍Washington, DC
Posted May 21, 2026

Job Overview

Position

Legal Secretary, Regulatory

Company

Plona Partners

Location

Washington, DC

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4414002374

Job Description

Firm: AmLaw100

Position:
Legal Assistant, Regulatory

Location:
DC (Hybrid)

Support:
5-6 Attorneys

Comp:
$80,000 - $108,000 with OT and Bonus

The successful candidate demonstrates good judgment, strong secretarial and communication skills, flexibility, and the ability to work under pressure. Must be comfortable with technology and can help manage the team. Discretion, proactiveness, and the ability to manage confidential information with sound judgement are essential, along with a strong willingness to contribute as a member of a high-functioning team.

Representative Key Responsibilities

  • Responsibility for ensuring the efficient daily administrative operations of the assigned legal team.

  • Communicate with attorneys and assist with balancing the team’s workload to ensure completion of projects within established time frames and quality standards.

  • Mastery of Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and willingness to master other programs, as required. Ability to send documents by file-share (e.g., Litera) and familiarity with Microsoft Teams, Zoom and WebEx.

  • Ability to manage matter workspaces and adhere to established naming conventions using the firm’s document management system, NetDocuments.

  • Draft, format, proofread, and edit legal and policy documents, including correspondence, memoranda, filings, reports, and presentations. Ensure compliance with firm and client standards.

  • Track matter progress and help ensure timely filing of required documentation, including government submissions.

  • Provide high level administrative support to assigned legal team, including assistance with client billing, expense reimbursements, vendor invoice processing, and the coordination of incoming and outgoing mail and overnight deliveries.

  • Maintaining calendars, team lists, schedule appointments, reserve conference rooms and arranging conference room setups, and coordinate domestic and international travel.

Interview Prep

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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.How do you utilize document management systems like NetDocuments to organize legal files, and why are naming conventions critical in a regulatory practice?
  • 2.Can you describe your process for tracking matter progress and ensuring timely filings for government submissions?
  • 3.Walk me through your approach to drafting, formatting, and proofreading a complex regulatory filing to ensure it meets firm and client standards.
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time you had to balance competing priorities and manage the workload for multiple attorneys under pressure.
  • 2.Describe a situation where you handled highly confidential information. How did you ensure discretion and exercise good judgment?
  • 3.Give me an example of when you proactively identified a potential issue with a project or process and took the initiative to resolve it.
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You receive urgent filing requests from two different attorneys simultaneously, and both need your immediate attention to meet end-of-day regulatory deadlines. How do you handle this?
  • 2.An attorney on your team is resistant to adopting a new technology or document management process required by the firm. How do you help manage the team through this?

Resume Keywords

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RegulatoryNetDocumentsLiteraGovernment submissionsDocument managementAmLaw100Client billingMatter workspacesProofreadingTravel coordinationConfidential information

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