A growing Pittsburgh litigation boutique focused on complex consumer and class action matters, is seeking a Legal Practice Assistant to join its team in Pittsburgh, PA. This is a full-time, in-office opportunity for an experienced litigation support professional who knows court filings, takes ownership of their work, and wants to become a key part of a close-knit firm handling sophisticated cases.
**This is an onsite role; not flexible on that
What You'll Do as the Legal Practice Assistant:
- Support attorneys across active litigation matters, with a primary focus on consumer and class action cases
- Prepare, organize, proofread, format, and finalize legal documents and correspondence
- Complete electronic court filings accurately and on deadline
- Assist with state and federal court filings, including matters outside Pennsylvania as needed
- Maintain case files, calendars, deadlines, and litigation-related documentation
- Coordinate with attorneys to keep matters moving and ensure important deadlines and follow-ups do not fall through the cracks
- Provide day-to-day administrative and litigation support in a small-firm environment where initiative and reliability matter
- Learn firm-specific procedures and jurisdictional requirements, including California-related matters
Must-Haves as the Legal Practice Assistant:
- At least 2 years of litigation legal assistant, legal secretary, or comparable litigation support experience
- Hands-on experience completing electronic court filings
- Strong computer skills and confidence learning new systems and filing procedures
- Excellent grammar, proofreading, formatting, and written communication skills
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage deadlines accurately
- A dependable work history and demonstrated commitment to previous employers
- A self-directed working style with the willingness to ask questions, learn, and take ownership
- Interest in working in a smaller law firm where teamwork, professionalism, and individual contributions are highly visible
- Ability to work in the Pittsburgh office Monday through Friday
Nice-to-Haves as the Legal Practice Assistant:
- Federal court filing experience
- Experience supporting class action, consumer protection, complex civil litigation, or plaintiff-side litigation
- Familiarity with federal PACER/ECF filing procedures
- Experience supporting cases across multiple jurisdictions
- Exposure to New York court matters or filings
- Experience in a boutique or small-firm environment
This Role Offers:
- $60,000-$75,000 base salary, depending on experience
- Monday-Friday schedule, generally 9:00 am-5:30 pm with a one-hour lunch
- Employer-paid employee medical coverage through a high-deductible health plan with an HSA
- Dental coverage with the firm paying 75% of the premium
- Vision coverage with the firm paying 75% of the premium
- Firm-paid life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance
- 401(k) plan eligibility after one year of service, including a mandatory 3% employer safe harbor contribution following eligibility
- A private office in an attractive professional office environment
- A quiet, respectful, team-oriented culture where people work well together
- The resources to work remotely when occasional circumstances require it, such as medical appointments or severe weather
- Exposure to sophisticated litigation and the opportunity to grow alongside an expanding firm
Skills Required
- At least 2 years of litigation legal assistant, legal secretary, or comparable litigation support experience
- Hands-on experience completing electronic court filings
- Strong computer skills and ability to learn new systems and filing procedures
- Excellent grammar, proofreading, formatting, and written communication skills
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage deadlines accurately
- Dependable work history and demonstrated commitment to previous employers
- Self-directed working style with willingness to ask questions, learn, and take ownership
- Interest in working in a smaller law firm with teamwork, professionalism, and visible individual contributions
- Ability to work in the Pittsburgh office Monday through Friday
- Federal court filing experience
- Experience supporting class action, consumer protection, complex civil litigation, or plaintiff-side litigation
- Familiarity with federal PACER/ECF filing procedures
- Experience supporting cases across multiple jurisdictions
- Exposure to New York court matters or filings
- Experience in a boutique or small-firm environment
What We Do
Who are we? As an independent, full-service marketing and consulting business based in Portland, Maine, we provide strategy, content and design for businesses, nonprofits and individuals in Maine and throughout the world. What do we do? Everything we do revolves around ROI—improving your bottom line. Through a rock-solid communication and branding strategy, we show you how to support and engage your employees, build your workforce, find new clients and support existing business. Here’s a snapshot of our services: Strategy: Branding and rebranding; mission statement; search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine results page (SERP); hiring and retention; fundraising; communicating with board members; personal branding (for executives); events and PR; advertising campaigns; product launches; social media campaigns and management. Design: Websites; logos; promotional material (digital and print); event guides; employee photos; drone video footage; custom magazines; advertisements. Content: Website text; speeches and keynotes; promotional text; employee bios; custom articles; social media posts; newsletters and internal emails; corporate reports. Custom Publishing: Vanguard, Equity, Toggle, Blueprint, Vision, Terra Firma What’s our mission? We want to help you solve real challenges—like growing your business, hiring and retaining employees, fundraising and keeping existing business. Our mission is to do this with honesty and integrity. Authenticity—it’s a good look on you. Why do we do this? We want to reimagine marketing. We want it to be less about the perfect image, and more about using good communication and branding as a way to engage with your employees and clients in successful and lasting relationships. Ultimately, we believe this approach will create a world where people come before profit, where the environment is respected and given back to, and where good business is synonymous with the best intentions.
