Legal Administrative Assistant
Location
Boston, MA – Federal Reserve (Hybrid Work Schedule)
Role
Harris Beach Murtha is seeking a Legal Administrative Assistant to join our Boston, MA – Federal Reserve office. This talented individual will provide direct administrative support to attorneys in various practice groups. You will THRIVE in this role if you have:
- 3-5+ years of litigation legal administrative or secretarial experience
- Experience preparing, filing, and e-filing documents with various courts
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word and other Windows-based software
- Strong proofreading skills, including excellent spelling, grammar, and punctuation
- The ability to type correspondence, pleadings, memoranda, reports, and other legal documents from rough drafts
Responsibilities
The Legal Administrative Assistant will be responsible for providing administrative and secretarial support to litigation attorneys, preparing and filing legal documents, maintaining calendars and files, coordinating meetings and depositions, and assisting with other office projects. Do you have the DRIVE and DESIRE to:
- File and e-file documents with various courts
- Maintain attorneys’ calendars and track important dates and deadlines
- Schedule and coordinate depositions, conferences, meetings, and appointments
- Screen telephone calls, transmit messages accurately, and communicate with courts and clients
- Organize and maintain electronic and physical filing systems for attorneys
- Make travel arrangements for attorneys
- Proofread documents for grammatical, typographical, and spelling errors
- Provide general clerical assistance with office projects
Harris Beach Murtha recognizes everyone has a right to be included.
You will be successful in your career at the firm if you:
- Work effectively on a team and maintain a courteous, professional demeanor
- Take initiative and adapt to changes in workflow, processes, and procedures
- Believe in the firm’s core values: collaboration, inclusion, ingenuity, respect, integrity, and commitment
- Enjoy working with diverse personalities within various levels of the firm
- Are comfortable working a hybrid work schedule
Salary and benefits
Salary information will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position, geographic locations and weekly hours schedule. The anticipated weekly schedule for the Legal Administrative Assistant is 35 hours per week.
Boston, MA: $30.22 - $41.21/hour
Harris Beach Murtha offers a comprehensive benefits package that supports both professional and personal well-being. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurances; health savings and flexible spending account options; life and disability insurances; retirement plan including 401(k) and profit sharing; paid leave programs; employee assistance resources; commuter and parking benefits where applicable; and professional development opportunities. Eligibility for benefits is subject to applicable plan terms and firm policies.
Application process
Harris Beach Murtha is not accepting candidate submissions from recruiting agencies for this position during the first two weeks after posting. Following this period, agencies with an active fee agreement with the firm may reach out to our internal recruitment team at resumes@harrisbeachmurtha.com to inquire about potential collaboration for this position.
Harris Beach Murtha is committed to an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from diverse candidates with varied background and skills, including military experience. Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
About Harris Beach Murtha
Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP. A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha’s New York roots reach back to 1856 and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936. Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal.
Harris Beach Murtha and its subsidiaries have a strong Northeast presence, but a global reach. Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations and individuals. The firm’s practice areas and industries served span appellate law, business litigation, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax, and trusts and estates.
The firm’s lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and Newark, New Jersey.
The firm’s policy prohibiting unlawful discrimination applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, placement, assignment of duties, training, promotion, compensation & benefits and termination. It is the policy of Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC that all applicants and employees enjoy a positive, respectful and productive work environment, free from behavior, actions or language constituting unlawful harassment. Accordingly, harassment or discrimination of any kind based on an individual’s race or color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, carrier status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, creed, domestic violence victim status or any other legally protected status is strictly prohibited. Harris Beach Murtha complies with the provisions of the Human Rights Law, all other State and Federal statutory and constitutional non-discrimination provisions including non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.
