Corporate Legal Secretary

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is a preeminent, full-service law firm with more than 1,100 attorneys in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Our practice consists of sophisticated corporate transactions and commercial litigation matters including antitrust, restructuring, commodities, communications, securities, creditors' rights, employee benefits, environmental, energy and natural resources, estate planning, intellectual property, real estate, tax, and venture capital. Our clients range from Fortune 100 companies to medium and small corporations, financial institutions and leveraged buyout and venture capital firms.

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Kirkland & Ellis LLP
200 E Randolph
Chicago, IL 60601
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REQUIREMENTS
The Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP is currently recruiting for two (2) full-time Corporate Legal Secretaries to work Monday-Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Each secretary will provide support to one senior partner and up to three associates in the areas of fund formation, financing and secured transactions, leasing, structured financial workouts and reorganizations and general corporate practice. Duties include, but are not limited to, typing and formatting corporate legal documents, registration statements, SEC filings and other transactional filings with governing entities. Administrative duties include Dictaphone transcription, entering attorney time, making travel arrangements, interfacing with clients, calendar maintenance, filing and general secretarial duties as assigned.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of recent and direct corporate legal secretarial experience (preferably in a large law firm), excellent communication and organizational skills, a customer service orientation, a proactive work ethic, attention to detail, the ability to work well under pressure and flexibility for overtime. Strong day-to-day organizational skills are essential, particularly with respect to file maintenance. Must have advanced proficiency working in MS Word 2000 and be proficient in formatting documents utilizing styles. A minimum typing speed of 55+ wpm is required. PowerPoint and Excel experience are also strongly preferred. Please Note: All applicants are required to take a pre-interview Word skills assessment test in order to determine their level of proficiency.