Graduate Legal Assistant

About the role

The Graduate Legal Assistant (GLA) will support the Division of Prosecution (DOP) in the litigation of administrative and civil matters to ensure compliance under the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 and its implementing regulations (Knox-Keene Act).

Responsibilities

• Assist attorney staff with legal research, analyses, and discovery.
• Draft memoranda.
• Prepare reports regarding legal and policy recommendations concerning the Knox-Keene Act, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), and other state and federal laws.

Requirements

The GLA is required to take initiative, exercise a reasonable amount of discretion, display superior work habits, and produce a high quantity and quality of legal work. It is expected that the GLA will be assigned increasingly more difficult work as experience is gained in the respective classification at the Office of Enforcement.

Qualifications

Maintain normal and consistent work hours, averaging 40 hours per week. Routinely exercise independent, professional judgment, and accept supervision as directed or ordered. Travel to all parts of the State and the United States as required. Handle multiple tasks, and significant caseload, and effectively prioritize work. Perform research and analysis and apply legal principles, facts, and precedents to legal problems.

Skills

Take initiative, exercise discretion, display work habits, produce quality legal work, take on increasingly difficult work, handle multiple tasks, prioritize work, conduct research, analyze legal issues, apply legal principles, facts, and precedents.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$5,227.00 - $6,238.00

Schedule

12 month Limited Term - Full Time