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About the Role
State Farm is seeking a Legal Secretary to join the Westchester, NY Claim Litigation office. This hybrid role involves supporting attorneys with calendaring, scheduling, processing mail, and electronic/paper filing, interacting with clients, courts, and counsel throughout the litigation process. The position offers diversity of work and opportunities for development and advancement.
Responsibilities
- Apply specialized knowledge of legal procedures
- Calendar management, processing mail, electronic/paper filing
- Schedule litigation events, including depositions, mediations and hearings
Requirements
- 2-5 years of recent civil defense litigation secretarial experience preferably in insurance defense or personal injury
- Ability to adapt to a corporate law environment
Skills
- Calendaring and scheduling experience within a legal environment
- Strong organizational skills, prioritizing urgent and non-urgent tasks (items with deadlines, handling demands), multitasking
- E-filing experience
- Knowledge of legal and medical terminology, local and state rules regarding pleadings and pre-trial matters, deadlines, and filing requirement (strongly preferred)
- Strong written and oral communication skills (proofreading, attention to detail, formatting)
- Accurate typing skills
Location
- Westchester, NY
- 500 Mamaroneck Avenue, Harrison, NY 10528
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 2-5 years
Salary/Compensations
- $69,895.31 - $74,000.00
Benefits
- Annual raise and bonus
- Robust health and wellbeing programs
- State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium
- Multiple healthcare plan options
- 100% coverage for in-network preventative care
- Access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals
- Educational benefits like industry leading training programs
- Tuition assistance programs
- Employee resource groups
- Mentoring
- Fertility/IVF/adoption assistance
- College coaching
- National discount programs
- Interactive monthly financial workshops
- Free financial coaching
- Generous time off policies (up to 20 days annually)
- Parental leave
- Paid holidays
- Celebration day
- Life leave (40 hours/year)
- Bereavement leave
- Community service/education support days
- Matching Gift Program
- Good Neighbor Grant Program
- Employee Assistance Fund
- Free financial advisors
- 401(k) plan with company contributions up to 7% of salary
About the Company
- State Farm is a Fortune 50 company and a leader in the insurance and financial services industry.
- Recognized as a Top Performer and Compass Award Winner by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity in 2024.
- Named one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune.
- The company's mission is to provide high quality legal services in a cost-effective manner and to act as strategic thinking partners for clients and customers.