Highlights
This individual will regularly coordinate and consult with management and cross-function teams regarding trust account activity and confirm information regarding the movement of client funds, as well as assist with bank reconciliations, research, and provide general support to the Firm's accounting function. The Trust Analyst will collaborate with billing attorneys, office administrators, billing/eBilling teams, and account receivable specialists to research and clear trust matter balances per state bar guidelines.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Los Angeles, CA |
| Industry | Legal Services |
| Company Size | 1,500 to 1,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1979 |
| Website | http://lewisbrisbois.com/ |
Description
Overview
The Los Angeles, CA office of Lewis Brisbois, a full-service AmLaw 100 firm, is seeking a Temporary (with potential for permanent placement) Trust Analyst. This position is expected to be for a duration of 3 months based on a 37.50-hour workweek. The ideal candidate will work a schedule of 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM.
The following list of essential functions is not exhaustive, and other duties may be assigned in addition to those listed. The items listed are considered daily functions associated with this position. The Trust Analyst will collaborate with billing attorneys, office administrators, billing/eBilling teams, and account receivable specialists to research and clear trust matter balances per state bar guidelines. This individual will regularly coordinate and consult with management and cross-function teams regarding trust account activity and confirm information regarding the movement of client funds, as well as assist with bank reconciliations, research, and provide general support to the Firm's accounting function. The ideal candidate will have the ability to perform these tasks with an extreme attention to protocol, bar guidelines, proper detail and accuracy.
Responsibilities
Job Specifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Accounting or Finance
- 3 years' experience in accounting, account balancing, and reconciliation
- Law firm experience a plus, but not required
- Experience with large professional organizations or large law firm financial systems such as Aderant Expert/Elite helpful, but not required
- Ability to execute under pressure and within tight timelines while juggling multiple projects
- Superior knowledge of Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Must be able to transition efficiently between different systems
- 10-key speed required
Lewis Brisbois is not accepting search firm submissions for this position.
Qualifications
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Minimum Salary
USD $38.00/Hr.
Maximum Salary
USD $38.00/Hr.
About Company
Our national practice is sophisticated, multi-faceted and well-versed in current legal trends, while our individual state practices provide vast resources and knowledge of procedural and legal nuances. Lewis Brisbois offers legal practice in more than 35 specialties, and a multitude of sub-specialties associated with each practice area. Our attorneys have broad knowledge, expertise, and sensitivity to their clients’ unique needs. Through interaction among its practice groups, Lewis Brisbois provides a wide range of legal services to each client with a continuity of representation over multiple disciplines. We have built longstanding relationships with corporate and institutional clients based on our ability to provide comprehensive service on a national scale.
At Lewis Brisbois, diversity is an integral part of our firm culture and our daily life. We accomplish diversity not by committee or initiative, but through the true and committed practice of hiring the best people for the job and consistently rewarding excellence. The success of these policies is reflected in the fact that Lewis Brisbois has repeatedly received national recognition for its commitment to embracing diversity. Lewis Brisbois is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse group of talented lawyers and staff, and demonstrates that commitment through non-discriminatory hiring, retention and promotion policies. The diversity of the firm’s client base is matched by the diversity of our attorneys.
With offices from Los Angeles to New York, our attorneys reflect the communities in which they live. The firm’s culture has fostered a diverse group of professionals committed to promoting the best interests of our clients, our communities and the legal profession. We are committed to supporting diversity through new and ongoing relationships with minority and women-owned businesses.
Lewis Brisbois is known for its commitment to principled advocacy, an unflinching work ethic, and unyielding recognition of our duty to provide the highest level of service to our clients, who choose us because we take the time to understand their business interests and philosophies. We have developed sophisticated proprietary risk evaluation and litigation management processes that many of our clients have incorporated into their business practices, and we help them manage and defend claims and litigation. As a result, they are avoiding and reducing losses that impact their bottom line.
Our practice includes pre-suit counseling and problem solving based on a structured and accurate analysis of likely outcome. We know our clients’ objectives are often best served by a pre-suit resolution, and we are often judged by the advice and counsel we provide toward that end. However, when trial is the answer and in the client’s best interest, no law firm in this country understands and better executes a trial strategy than Lewis Brisbois. We are truly client driven and result oriented.