Legal Assistant

Senior Manager, Talent Solutions, at Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio Company

Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio Company
, is urgently seeking a contract Legal Assistant for an on-site assignment in Chicago, IL.

Start Date: January 5th, 2026

Location: Hybrid on-site (3 days per week) in downtown Chicago

Pay Rate: $30–35 per hour

As a Legal Assistant, you will support our client's investigators by completing the following tasks:

• Intake & triage:
  Case creation, logging, document intake, call handling, case categorization, routing, acknowledgment communications, checklist completion, deadline scheduling.
• Evidence Collection & Preservation:
  Document/Evidence logging, file organization, sending follow-up requests, collecting evidence, basic document tagging, legal holds and releases, data destruction, discovery requests.
• Interview Support:
  Interview scheduling, Note taking, Transcript preparation, Recording management, Interview logistics, Participant coordination.
• Low level investigations:
  These would be low level investigations of low risk, typically resulting in simple policy reminder—still require basic review, case logging, and closeout; may require minimal interaction with the reporter or subject.
• Compliance monitoring:
  Reminder distribution, status update communications, regular progress updates, action tracking, recurring report generation, deadline monitoring, template maintenance.
• Cross-functional:
  Policy distribution, knowledge base maintenance, roster maintenance, recurring meeting coordination, template maintenance, data extraction, account set‑up, and investigations (surge staffing for simple investigations, resolving ‘low risk’ concerns).
• Administrative:
  Time tracking, expense processing, vendor coordination, on‑call logistics, training logistics, tooling access management, access/license/certification tracking and provisioning.

• 1+ years of experience in an administration, legal operations or general operations support position, ideally in a corporate/professional services environment.
• Ability to follow playbooks, and spot improvements where relevant.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to engage with stakeholders and willingness to problem solve collaboratively.
• Let us know if you can speak Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish, or French.

LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities to join us so we can do great things together.

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Legal Services