Practice Assistant - Corporate​/Real Estate; Hyrid

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This position is based in our Seattle office.

The Seattle office of Holland & Knight is seeking a Real Estate Transaction Practice Assistant to join our team. The Practice Assistant will be responsible for providing high-quality administrative support to a group of lawyers and professionals in a team environment, effectively and efficiently meeting Firm/client needs. The Practice Assistant position is currently a hybrid role with designated days required to be in the office, which may change depending on future needs of the Firm or industry standards.

• Communicate effectively and professionally with clients, lawyers, and co-workers via email, by telephone, and in person; answer telephone, providing responses to routine questions from clients and staff members, and/or route calls to appropriate lawyer or staff member; arrange conference calls and greet clients.
• Create, draft, format, edit, proofread, and manage Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations; draft routine business correspondence, forms, and documents under the supervision of an appropriate lawyer/professional.
• Schedule domestic and foreign travel through Firm travel system, including flights, hotels, and/or car rentals.
• Prepare, organize, and process reimbursements, invoices, and check requests in a timely manner.
• Collect and prepare information to run conflict checks, open new client matters, and draft engagement letters, scope letters, and other required documents; provide guidance to lawyers to ensure completed forms are prepared and submitted properly.
• Learn client‑specific billing guidelines or restrictions and consistently apply them to client invoices to ensure compliance and cost‑effective practices.
• Open, prioritize, and distribute mail (both paper and electronic), coordinate mailings, deliveries, copying, scanning, and printing, when appropriate.
• Enter and manage work requests from lawyers in the Firm’s workflow tool and complete according to provided deadline(s).
• Perform routine electronic and paper filing in organized manner for easy access; photocopy, scan, compile, and distribute documents; identify and coordinate available services provided by administrative departments, including office services, the IT Help Desk, document services, accounting, billing, and records.
• Perform all file maintenance, including saving documents to the document management system.
• Assist lawyers with time entry, billing, and collection, as needed.
• Operate independently to ensure completion of assignments, which may be complex in nature or require high‑level production, in an accurate and timely manner. Produce a high volume of work assignments in an accurate and timely manner.
• Perform clerical duties for non‑legal departments, as needed.
• Special projects and duties as assigned.

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe.
• Experience with document management systems.
• Experience with electronic signature software programs.
• Proficiency in core legal administrative assistant functions and advanced technical and communications skills.
• Experience with creating signature page checklists and signature packets.
• Experience with maintaining digital electronic files of executed Lease files (Lease, Amendments, SNDAs, Estoppels, Liens, Notices) or Closing Documents.
• Understand how to create and assemble Closing Binders for Acquisition/Sale/Loan transactions from an index party list to final digital file as Subfolder and share with client.
• Ability to edit PDF documents by inserting dates, fill in blanks, replace PDF pages of PDF documents.
• Familiar with commercial real estate terminology and tasks.
• Familiar with large file sharing and electronic signature applications.
• Experience with preparing closing binders, signature page checklists, signature packets, stock purchase agreements, shareholder agreements, stock certificates, SEC…