Katten
Senior Real Estate Legal Assistant (Legal)
Katten is a full-service law firm with nearly 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm's core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals.
Senior Real Estate Legal Assistant
For those contemplating law school, this is an opportunity to work under the direct supervision of a senior partner as the Senior Real Estate Legal Assistant and be deeply involved in and responsible for supporting the delivery of quality legal services to national leading institutional lending clients. The position involves performing specialized legal assistant and administrative duties pertaining to sophisticated and market leading affordable multi-family housing transactions, involving tax-exempt financing, federal and state low income housing and historic tax credits, federal and local rent subsidy programs, real estate tax abatement programs and subordinate financing provided by governmental and mission based lenders. Assignments typically involve document production, client contact and transactional closing coordination requiring a high degree of organizational, analytical and technical skills. This position typically works directly with three or more attorneys as a primary assignment and is a great learning experience for anyone contemplating law school. The Senior Real Estate Legal Assistant maintains professionalism and strict confidentiality in all client and Firm matters.
Katten offers a hybrid work model, allowing the flexibility to work both on-site and remotely on a regular basis (KattenFlex).
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include, but may not be limited to, the following. Other duties may be requested and/or assigned. Essential functions are primary job duties that an individual must be able to perform successfully with or without a reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
We offer an outstanding benefit package which includes: medical/dental/vision, 401k with employer contribution; transportation fringe benefit program; back-up care option; generous paid time off policy; and long-term and short-term disability policies.
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer/AA-M/F/SO/Disability/Veteran.
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