Position Summary

The Immigration Administrative Assistant provides administrative and clerical support for the shareholders and attorneys, and paralegals for the Austin office immigration practice group. This is an in-office position, reporting to the Office Administrator.

Essential Functions

• Maintaining client contacts in Interaction.
• Coordinates attorney travel arrangements, including hotel accommodations, preparing itineraries, and submitting travel expense reports.
• Prepares legal documents, opens client matters, maintains documents, completes time entries, and creates PowerPoint presentations.
• Process invoices, check requests, and expense reimbursements through the firm’s accounts payable software.
• Managing calendars for the immigration legal team, which involves setting up, organizing, and managing meetings, sending reminders, and assisting to ensure deadlines are met.
• Assist with the billing process, including the resolution of billing issues.
• Assisted with managing two alias inboxes, including responding to emails, opening assessment cases, and monitoring for RFEs.
• Posting (NOFs) and (PAFs).
• Provided backup support for PERM-related tasks.
• Assisted with additional assignments and helped the team during high-volume periods.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 2 or more years of administrative assistant experience including support to senior level.
• Business immigration / law firm experience preferred but not required.
• Must be proficient in all Microsoft applications, including but not limited to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Document Management Systems.
• Excellent communications skills, oral and written.
• Ability to read, respond timely and accurately to and organize high volume of emails.
• Ability to work on multiple tasks.
• Good organizational skills including calendaring.
• Ability to work independently as well as with a team.

Benefits

Ogletree Deakins offers a robust suite of benefits for our Staff including: Paid Time Off, Paid Sick Leave, a 401(k) matching program, Profit Sharing, Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, affordable Health and Life Insurance including Dental & Vision coverage, Health Savings Account /Flexible Spending Accounts to help offset the cost of dependent care and/or health care expenses, Tuition Reimbursement and an Employee Assistance Program.

Contact Information

If you have questions, please e-mail Rebecca Coats at rebecca.coats@ogletreedeakins.com with “Administrative Assistant - Austin" in the subject line. Please note, applications submitted via e-mail will not be considered. We are not working with outside recruiters nor outside agencies for this role.

Firm Overview

Ogletree Deakins has one of the largest Business Immigration practices in the United States and provides a wide range of legal services to employers seeking temporary business visas and permanent residence for foreign national employees. We provide comprehensive immigration services to clients of all sizes, including numerous Fortune 500 companies. Our practice is designed to provide superior client service at competitive fixed fee rates. Our attorneys are proactive in handling client matters, from case initiation to case strategy/planning to the successful completion of the case, always remaining accessible to all of our clients. We are fully committed to the importance of diversity within the legal profession and all workplace environments, and strongly encourage diverse candidates to consider the firm. Equal Opportunity Employer.