The Role
Provides executive and office administration support to partners and professional staff in the Irvine family litigation office. Responsibilities include scheduling legal proceedings and meetings, managing email and calendars, coordinating travel and reimbursements, maintaining legal files, tracking documents, collaborating with support teams, ordering supplies, maintaining office spaces, and coordinating firm events.
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About us: Gursey | Schneider LLP is a Top 100 Firm and a 12-time recipient of Inside Public Accounting's Best of the Best Firms, with over 40 years of success in the market. Our firm consists of over 250 accounting professionals and our talented people consistently drive the success of our business through thoughtful strategy and creative problem-solving.
Job Title: Executive Assistant, Litigation
Department: Family Litigation
Location: Irvine
Successful candidates should have the following:
- 3+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant, Administrative Assistant, or Office Manager in a fast-paced professional services work environment (Accounting, Financial Services, or Law firm experience highly desirable)
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Exceptional writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
- Excellent organization and time-management skills
- Excellent computer skills, including the Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
A day-in-the-life basic overview:
- The Executive Assistant serves as the office lead in the Irvine office. This position will be responsible for assisting Partners and Professional Staff in all administrative functions including, but not limited to:
- Scheduling court appearances, depositions, arbitrations, mediations, client meetings, and conference calls
- Managing the partner’s email; arranging business itineraries and coordinating travel arrangements; processing travel reimbursements, maintaining calendar, and due dates as required.
- Maintains legal files (both paper & electronic), organizes, files, and digitizes documents in a designated order.
- Updating case information, scanning, and organizing legal files.
- Managing document deliveries and tracking final executed documentation.
- Collaborating with Administrative Support Coordinators, Paralegals, and other support team members where applicable
Office management duties will include:
- Ordering supplies/snacks and restocking, general kitchen maintenance, coordinating weekly office lunches, mailing, and shipping.
- Ensuring that the office is maintained in excellent condition. This includes the appearance and functionality of the conference rooms, occupied and unoccupied offices, break rooms, and other common areas.
- Coordinating firm-related event processes for venues including site research, cost, and reservations.
Benefits: G|S offers market-leading benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, profit sharing plan, parental leave, 401(k) match, and overtime pay. We also offer many fun intangible perks such as our annual ski/camping trip, black-tie holiday party, quarterly departmental mixers (travel stipend included), and paid continuing education.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant, Administrative Assistant, or Office Manager in a fast-paced professional services environment
- Bachelor's degree
- Exceptional writing, editing, and proofreading skills
- Excellent organization and time-management skills
- Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
- Accounting, financial services, or law firm experience
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The Company
What We Do
Gursey | Schneider LLP is a premier Los Angeles accounting firm headquartered in Century City, the center of the financial and entertainment community. The firm also maintains offices in Orange County, the South Bay, the San Fernando Valley and San Francisco. Working as a cohesive team within the firm, our departments are fully integrated, giving our clients the benefit of having one firm handling their needs in every area of accounting, business management and litigation support, as well as business valuation services.
