# Docketing Specialist

**Company**: Norton Rose Fulbright
**Location**: Austin, TX
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

Norton Rose Fulbright is hiring a Docketing Specialist to support our Intellectual Property practice. This position plays a vital role in maintaining the firm's docketing system, managing critical deadlines, and supporting attorneys through a broad range of administrative and docketing functions.

Responsibilities may include:

- Creating records within the database, docketing or calendaring of due dates, and de-docketing or removing due dates when appropriate

- Cultivating relationships and following up with attorneys and/or paralegals regarding actions due, and other related tasks

- Docketing and reviewing all US and foreign prosecution mail, as well as opposition, interference and/or appellate matters

- Monitoring and updating attorney dockets daily, with strong attention to approaching deadlines

- Intake and auditing of transfer files

- Maintaining knowledge of latest IP rules, both domestic and foreign

- Investigating and troubleshooting issues or questions pertaining to docketing

Qualifications:

- Minimum 5 years of professional experience

- Bachelor's degree, preferred. In lieu of a degree, minimum 9 years of professional experience required

- Experience with US and foreign trademark docketing required

- Knowledge of docketing software applications a plus

- Proficient in MS Office products, including Excel and Word

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Customer service-oriented

Benefits:

- Comprehensive and competitive benefits package

- Access to three medical insurance plans, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, and disability insurance

- Pre-tax benefits such as health savings and flexible spending accounts

- 401(k) savings plan and profit-sharing plans if eligible

- Paid time off plan, which provides a minimum of 20 days off based on role and tenure with the firm

- Generous paid maternity leave and paid paternity leave (parental leave) benefit

## Skills

### Required
- MS Office
- Excel
- Word
- docketing software
- US and foreign trademark docketing

### Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree
- knowledge of docketing software applications

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