Legal Support Assistant

Palmer Legal Staffing

📍Washington, DC
💰 $80,000 - $110,000
Posted May 23, 2026
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Job Overview

Position

Legal Support Assistant

Company

Palmer Legal Staffing

Location

Washington, DC

Work Type

On-site

Salary Range

$80,000 - $110,000

Job ID

li-4418640104

Job Description

Legal Support Assistant

Washington, DC | Full-Time | $80,000–$110,000

A nationally recognized law firm with over 200 attorneys is seeking an experienced Legal Support Assistant to join its Washington, DC office. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented professional with a strong background in legal support, particularly in litigation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide administrative and legal support to attorneys and paralegals

  • Manage calendars, schedule meetings, and coordinate travel

  • Maintain and organize case files and client documents

  • Prepare and edit legal documents, including advanced formatting in Word

  • Handle billing, time entry, and expense reporting

  • Provide floater support across teams as needed

Qualifications

  • Prior experience as a legal assistant in a law firm environment (litigation preferred)

  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word (styles, TOC, TOA)

  • Experience with document management systems (NetDocs or similar)

  • Familiarity with PDF editing tools and redlining software (Litera or similar)

  • Strong organizational, communication, and client service skills

  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Additional Details

  • Full-time, Monday–Friday with flexible start times

  • Overtime as needed

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated legal support professional seeking a collaborative environment and the opportunity to contribute to a high-performing team.

How To Apply:
Please respond with your resume for consideration. We welcome all candidates that meet the REQUIRED qualifications with recent relevant experience. Palmer Legal Staffing is an equal opportunity employer.

About Us:
Palmer is an award winning staffing agency offering direct hire, temp-to-hire, and temporary placements for administrative, management, executive, legal and more. We represent more than 500 of the finest law firms and legal departments in the D.C. area.

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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.Can you walk me through your process for creating a Table of Authorities and a Table of Contents in a lengthy appellate brief using Microsoft Word?
  • 2.Describe your experience with document management systems like NetDocs. How do you organize and retrieve case files efficiently?
  • 3.How do you handle the attorney billing process, from time entry to expense reporting, and ensure accuracy?
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time you had to provide floater support to multiple attorneys or teams with competing deadlines. How did you handle it?
  • 2.Describe a situation where your attention to detail in a legal document prevented a significant error.
  • 3.Give me an example of how you managed a complex calendar and coordinated travel for an attorney with a busy litigation schedule.
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You are supporting three attorneys who all hand you urgent, last-minute tasks at 4:30 PM, and one of them needs you to stay late for overtime. How do you proceed?
  • 2.An attorney asks you to redline a contract and convert it to PDF for a client meeting in 15 minutes, but the redlining software crashes. What do you do?

Resume Keywords

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LitigationMicrosoft WordTOCTOANetDocsDocument ManagementTime EntryBillingLiteraRedliningCalendar ManagementCase Files

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