Legal Assistant - Business Litigation

We're hiring an experienced Legal Assistant to support our busy Litigation team in downtown San Diego. If you thrive in fast-paced environments and bring precision, responsiveness, and a proactive mindset to your work, we'd love to meet you.

What You'll Do
You'll play a key role in supporting attorneys who handle complex corporate and commercial litigation in both state and federal courts. Ideal candidates bring at least 7 years of experience in high-volume civil litigation and are confident handling:

• Formatting pleadings, briefs, and legal correspondence
• E-filing in both state and federal courts, without the use of a full-service e-filing service provider
• Calendaring deadlines and court dates
• Preparing expense reports and entering attorney time
• Communicating with clients, courts, and opposing counsel
• Supporting attorneys with a variety of work styles and preferences

To be considered, candidates must have experience supporting attorneys in business litigation; experience in bankruptcy law is preferred.

Why Work With Us?

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to balance office and remote work.
• Collaborative and supportive team culture.
• Opportunity to work on high-profile, challenging cases in state and federal courts.
• Competitive compensation. This role typically pays $87,000-$100,000 depending on experience. If your pay expectation is outside this range, we still encourage you to apply. Bonuses are awarded in recognition of individual and firm performance. Full-time employees can participate in our comprehensive benefit program includes medical (HMO/PPO plans), dental (HMO/PPO plans), vision, including options for flexible spending/health savings accounts. We have a great Employee Assistance Program and firm incentives for wellness program participation as well as an excellent 401k profit-sharing program and generous time off policy.

If you're a proactive and experienced legal secretary looking to make a meaningful impact, we'd love to hear from you!

Procopio is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and encourages applications from women, people of color, persons with disabilities, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Procopio Rises Above and has made a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion; we condemn the discrimination of applicants by race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.