Legal Administrative Clerk at Edward Jones in Saint Louis, MO

Our Legal Response Team serves as a critical partner to the firm, managing legal requests, court orders, litigation matters, and regulatory inquiries while helping protect the firm, its clients, and its associates. This team works across a variety of legal workstreams and collaborates with business partners, attorneys, courts, and outside counsel to ensure timely, accurate, and risk-conscious responses.

As a Legal Administrative Clerk, you'll play a key role in providing administrative support for litigation and regulatory matters, with a primary focus on intake, assessment, triage, assignments and file opening. You'll work independently on a variety of legal matters, helping to mitigate risk through accuracy and efficiency, while collaborating with a highly engaged legal team.

What You'll Do

• Research and gather information from internal systems, attorneys, courts, and external parties.
• Process, review, and track legal documents, expenses and deadlines, including intake, scanning, and case assignment.
• Maintain case management records, including opening/closing files and updating legal and regulatory documentation.
• Support attorneys and paralegals by managing priorities, deadlines, correspondence, invoices, and reports.
• Create and maintain spreadsheets, templates, and departmental reporting.
• Handle highly confidential information with sound judgment and appropriate escalation when needed.
• Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while ensuring accuracy and compliance.

Position Requirements

• 3+ years of legal support experience in litigation, regulatory, or related environments.
• Bachelor's degree or Paralegal Certificate preferred.
• Experience with legal records management, data entry, legal calendaring, and case triage preferred.
• Strong communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, adapt quickly, work independently, and maintain confidentiality.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Professional, and document management systems.

Company Description

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we’re proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.

People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

View our Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report.

¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

Awards and Accolades

At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.

Check out our U.S. awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones

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EEO Statement

Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Salary Information

Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page.