Calendar Clerk

About the role

The Calendar Clerk is responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date court calendars, deadlines, and deposition schedules, ensuring compliance with state and federal court rules. This role involves docketing conferences, motions, trials, and orders, as well as coordinating depositions by confirming details and arranging court reporters or translators.

Responsibilities

• Answer inquiries related to calendar events
• Answer inquiries related to court rules
• Review, update, and maintain calendars for court dates, deadlines, and depositions
• Docket conferences, court orders, motions, trials, and deadline dates into the database
• Confirm and reschedule depositions, including ordering court reporters and translators

Key Competencies

• Communicating: Provide the information required by others in a concise, direct, and unambiguous way. Perceive how the message affects the receiver and strive to ensure clear understanding of specifics and function.
• Conflict Management: Address problems openly and objectively, bringing substantial conflicts into the open with the intention of resolving issues in an unemotional and constructive manner.
• Professionalism: Set high standards and serve as a role model for work performance, ethical conduct, and respect for others. Conduct oneself consistently with generally accepted moral principles and values within professional guidelines.
• Planning & Priority Setting: Identify priorities and develop detailed action plans that include objectives, accountabilities, time frames, standards, review stages, and contingencies.

Requirements

• Knowledge and understanding of state court rules and orders
• Experience with calendar and docketing of conferences, motions, trials, and deadline dates
• Experience confirming and rescheduling depositions, including ordering court reporters and translators
• Highly familiar with E-law, Pacer, and eCourts
• Highly familiar with efiling in both State and Federal Courts with an understanding of legal terminology specific to the practice
• 3 years experience as a calendar clerk preferred