Join Our Team: Cable Huston is seeking an experienced, detail-oriented Legal Assistant to join our collaborative legal team. The ideal candidate is organized, proactive, client service-focused, and thrives in a fast-paced professional environment. This position supports attorneys and paralegals in delivering high-quality legal services while helping maintain strong client relationships and efficient practice operations.
At Cable Huston, legal assistants are an integral part of our legal teams. As a client service-driven organization, our legal assistants are often the first point of contact for both internal and external clients. Their professionalism, collaboration, and commitment to excellence help our teams achieve exceptional results together.
Position Summary: Legal Assistants provide day-to-day support to attorneys and paralegals while working closely with clients and other team members to ensure timely and effective attention to legal matters. This position typically supports three attorneys and one paralegal. Cable Huston maintains a 40-hour workweek, typically Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Following an initial training period, Legal Assistants are eligible for a hybrid work schedule of three days in the office and two days remote.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities:
Legal Document Preparation and Processing
- Draft, edit, and finalize routine to complex legal documents, correspondence, and forms.
- Proofread and revise materials for grammar, spelling, punctuation, format, syntax, and accuracy.
- E-file documents/pleadings in various State and Federal Courts
Document Management
- Update and organize electronic and physical file for easy access. Maintain and organize files, records, documents, and correspondence.
- Maintain the docket for dates to track upcoming deadlines.
Practice Support
- Assist with client engagement, including preparation of engagement letter, and conflict checks.
- Provide support for the firm’s monthly billing process.
- Track and submit CLE requirements.
- Delegate tasks to office assistants and supervise their completion.
Skills/Competencies:
- Significant experience supporting litigation attorneys
- Experience with Oregon state and federal court filing procedures required.
- Knowledge of legal terminology, legal documents and legal processes. Ability and willingness to learn new practice areas and programs updates
- Strong computer proficiency and proficient usage of software: MS Office, document management, time entry, e-filing database software, DocuSign, Simplifile, and FilesAnywhere.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
- Superior attention to detail and organizational skills including filing, calendaring, and proofreading.
- Strong client service orientation, sound judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Skills Required
- Significant experience supporting litigation attorneys
- Experience with Oregon state and federal court filing procedures
- Proficiency with MS Office, DocuSign, Simplifile, FilesAnywhere, e-filing database software, document management, and time entry software
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Superior attention to detail, calendaring, proofreading, and organizational skills
- Knowledge of legal terminology, documents, and processes and willingness to learn new practice areas and program updates
- Client service orientation, sound judgment, and ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
What We Do
Cable Huston is a Portland-based boutique law firm that represents some of Oregon's largest organizations, including multinational corporations, public utilities, and municipalities, while providing full legal services to estates and individuals. Founded in 1990, the firm emphasizes transparency and direct access, delivering top-tier legal advocacy and guidance without the bureaucracy and high overhead costs typically associated with larger law firms.
