Legal Assistant

Legal Assistant

Austin, TX

Hybrid (in office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)

Thrive Pet Healthcare is looking for a full time Legal Assistant to join our team!

You give so much of yourself to work-at Thrive Pet Healthcare, we recognize the impact you make every day. Across our Support Office teams, you’ll partner closely with leaders and colleagues nationwide to shape the future of veterinary care. You’ll do it with the support, tools, and community you need to thrive.

As part of a community of 360+ hospitals and a growing corporate team, you’ll be appreciated for who you are, the expertise you bring, and the impact you make across our organization.

This role will be responsible for working under the direction of the Legal Operations Manager to provide day-to-day administrative support to the legal department. This role is essential to creating and maintaining organization and efficiency throughout the Legal Department.

We’re looking for a Legal Assistant to join the Thrive Pet Healthcare Support Office team.

In this role, you’ll play a meaningful part in advancing our organization’s priorities and supporting our hospital teams. Your expertise will help improve processes, elevate the employee and client experience, and strengthen the operational foundation of a growing, nationwide veterinary network.

• Understanding business, solving problems, and making decisions through inclusive contributions of others
• Draft legal documents from form templates, coordinate and track through execution lifecycle,
• including internal review, signature collection, filing, distribution, and record retention.
• Maintain litigation calendar, track court dates/deadlines
• Assist with coordination and organization of information for discovery responses and other legal
• requests
• Contacting administrative agency and court personnel to obtain procedural information
• Coordinate scheduling of meetings
• Assist with maintaining and organizing digital files; including access and project management
• within contract management system
• Assist in managing shared email inboxes by reviewing, responding to, organizing, tracking and
• appropriately escalating messages
• Assist with gathering and organizing information for personnel files in response to subpoenas
• Coordinate the collection of required electronic and wet signatures on legal and administrative
• documents, ensuring accuracy and timely processing
• Prepare, package, and send outgoing mail/courier, including tracking and confirming receipt, when
• necessary
• Prepare and submit check request for payments, as needed
• Prepare accurate and complete meeting notes, either directly or distilling key information from
• meeting transcripts
• Utilize legal and business technology to maximize efficiency in daily tasks
• Collaborate with Legal Operations Manager and other department leaders to assist in
• implementing of legal and business technical applications

• Interpersonal aspect of leading with Emotional Intelligence (EQ), effective use of influence, working together constructively and creatively
• Gather time-sensitive information while maintaining positive relationships with stakeholders across the Company
• Actively collaborate with Legal Department team members and stakeholders across the company to achieve shared goals
• Ability to navigate sometimes stressful or time-sensitive situations with positivity, professionalism, and good humor
• Capacity to embrace and embody the Company’s core values of Empathy, Service, Accountability, Team, Exploration and Joy

• The art of bringing people together to leverage their skills, talents, and knowledge to achieve a common purpose with greater results
• Support, coordinate and collaborate with team members at different levels…