Legal Administrative Assistant

Do your Best Work in Mooresville
This position is based at our headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina. Our corporate office is a space where you can collaborate and do your best work. Take a walk, grab a bite (or a cup of coffee), work out or get a check-up - we invest in you so you can find your inspiration.
Your Impact
The primary purpose of this role is to enable effectiveness and productivity of leadership in the Legal Department and thereby the business unit, by providing varied and complex operations, administrative and logistical support. This individual operates as primary liaison with internal business partners and external customers or stakeholders, on behalf of Legal Department leadership.
What You Will Do

• Provide administrative support needs of Legal Department Leadership up to and including responsibility for routing or answering routine correspondence, preparing communication and other documents. Must be able to transmit effective executive communication on behalf of Legal Department Leadership at the discretion of their leader and as appropriate.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of common legal pleadings and the litigation life cycle to appropriately identify, prioritize, and route litigation-related documents and requests in accordance with established procedures.
• Monitor and triage the litigation team mailbox, reviewing incoming correspondence, legal pleadings, subpoenas, and other litigation-related requests and routing items to the appropriate team member for timely handling.
• Proactively maintain and manages calendars for one or multiple Legal Department leaders. Ensures that leader(s) are prepared with supporting materials and detailed information for day-to-day operations and meetings.
• Acts as the contact person for internal and external customers and uses professional judgment to respond to requests; may communicate on behalf of the leaders
• Produce a wide variety of routine and complex documents. Creates and utilizes systems to efficiently organize and protect sensitive data and legal documents.
• Work with and manage confidential and sensitive information and exercises discretion concerning its dissemination
• Coordinate and manage special events, including scheduling dates, sending invitations, providing logistical support, catering, ordering supplies and materials
• Assist with department budget or expense reports; helps maintain compliance. Produces spreadsheet reports as requested; may assist in the development of budgets
• Collaborate with the leaders to ensures excellent onboarding experience for new employees within the scope of their business unit, up to and including arranging for an effective workspace and tools critical for their new role.
• Consistently plan ahead, manage time effectively, coordinate project information and materials for easy accessibility and delegate responsibilities when appropriate.
• Complete internet research and / or uses internal resources to find solutions to daily problems.
• Conduct directed legal research using available public and private search tools, including Westlaw, and organizes results to assist attorneys with legal projects.
• Utilize billing and payable systems to ensure timely recording and payment of invoices and utilizes reporting tools within those systems to develop reporting on legal spend.
• Actively manage documents and data for legal matters through the use of matter management systems and creates reports using query tools for those systems.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the use of document management systems to ensure efficient document collaboration across the Department.
• Coordinate with Legal Operations to ensure consistency across the Department and compliance with internal process and policy.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
• 4 years' experience as an administrative assistant supporting Sr level leaders
• Experience supporting legal professionals in a firm or corporate legal department

Preferred Skills/Education

• Bachelor's degree
• Notary Public Certification for the State of North Carolina

About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe's employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Lowe's is a core value S&P 500 equity stock and a dividend aristocrat. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com .
Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.