Legal Assistant

• Take ownership of own success and attorneys’ success

  • Welcome challenges and take a proactive approach to problem solving

• Be engaged, interested and curious, offer ideas and solutions to improve service, teamwork and efficiency

• • Maintain composure and discretion

• Effectively partner with attorneys and maintain good working relationships with clients, DWT staff and attorneys, and other contacts (agencies, courts, vendors, etc.)

• • Easily team up with others, both forming and joining

• Mentor and share information with others

• • Efficiently manage complex and challenging workflow

• Utilize resources (administrative secretary, DWTWP, file room, colleagues, office management)

• • Invest in mentoring Administrative Secretaries and others

• Sustain a high degree of attorney confidence, minimal backlog and minimal overtime

• • Maintain a deep understanding of attorneys’ practices and goals as well as firm objectives, policies and procedures; proactively identify own training/development needs and collaborate with supervisor to meet them 

• • Maintain an understanding of firm and practice group goals; identify opportunities to contribute to success by raising concerns and/or opportunities; and offers potential solutions and is willing to participate in the agreed upon course of action to reach the desired goals 

• 3+ years experience as a legal secretary in a law firm environment

DWT is an AmLaw 100 law firm with 9 offices nationwide. We are relentlessly committed to client service and look for candidates who share that commitment. At DWT, client service means having empathy for each client’s and each lawyer’s work and personal pressures, business objectives, and legal needs; anticipating their needs; and having the capabilities and commitment to deliver what matters most to them.

DWT offers competitive compensation in addition to ample benefits including but not limited to:

• Choice of health and vision insurance plans

• 2 paid volunteer days for qualifying community service work

• Dental plan

• Fertility and adoption benefit

The annualized salary range for this position in Anchorage is $59,000 to $93,000 ($30.26 to $47.69 hourly). Actual pay will be adjusted based on the candidate’s education, training, experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. Full time employees may be eligible for a bonus, health insurance with an optional HSA, long term disability, dental insurance, vision care, telemedicine and virtual short term solution based counseling services, life insurance, Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, subsidized backup care and caregiving resources, 401(k), vacation, sick time, 11 paid holidays each year and an employee assistance program. For full-time employees, the initial vacation benefit is 15 days per year and 11 days of sick leave per year, accrued bi-weekly. Additional voluntary programs include: voluntary accident insurance, voluntary life, voluntary disability, voluntary long term care, and pet insurance. 

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP seeks to hire, develop and grow lawyers and business professionals who combine deep legal expertise, technological fluency, business acumen, and emotional intelligence—creating an excellent, inclusive, adaptive workforce that fuels exceptional client outcomes.

At Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, every employee has the right to work in an environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination. It is our policy to hire, promote, transfer, terminate, and make all employment-related decisions without regard to an employee’s sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical condition), race, color, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, religious creed, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, medical condition, military condition, military or veteran status or any other basis prohibited by applicable local, state, or federal laws.

Davis Wright Tremaine provides reasonable accommodations for those who need them to complete the application or recruiting process and for employees who need reasonable accommodations to perform the essential functions of their positions due to a disability or for religious reasons. If you need to request accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please email HRLeavesandAccommodations@dwt.com.

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