Legal Assistant, Criminal Appeals

Job Responsibilities

• Prepares, processes, and maintains legal documents, mail, and other records.
• Prepares routine correspondence and pleadings for review and signature of attorneys.
• Creates and maintains standard form documents of legal correspondence and pleadings.
• Proofreads and processes attorney work product, including making copies and ensuring mail service completion.
• Updates mail logs, calendars, case management system, and document management system.
• Physically delivers incoming mail to attorneys and outgoing mail to appropriate pick-up point.
• Updates case management system with any developments and statuses of assigned cases.
• Maintains current knowledge and information regarding legal formats, points of contact, addresses, etc.
• Fills out and closes files promptly, including physically inserting and removing material from files and taking closed files to the file coordinator.
• Handles reasonable requests or tasks as required by the administrative coordinator or the section supervisor, including auditing physical and digital files upon request and maintaining spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel.
• Communicates with public officials, including solicitors, judges, court staff, private individuals, including attorneys, and victims; and governmental agencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and meaningful exposure to legal or administrative work, or a high school diploma and four years of legal or administrative experience.
• Frequent stooping, bending, and lifting of up to 25 lbs.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of principles, policies, and practices of office management.
• Knowledge of applicable terminology.
• Knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, policies, and organizational functions.
• Ability to plan and organize work activities and prioritize task completion according to schedules and goals.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to exercise judgment and discretion in interpreting and applying policies and procedures.

Benefits

• Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility.
• Paid parental leave.
• Health, dental, vision, long-term disability, and life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
• Annual (vacation) leave: 15 days per year.
• Sick leave: 15 days per year.
• Thirteen paid holidays.
• State Retirement Plan and Deferred Compensation Programs.

Additional Comments

Drug screening, credit check, delinquent tax check, and SLED background check required. This office is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. EEOP Utilization Report available upon request. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities.