Legal Secretary – Grand Traverse County Prosecutor’s Office

Agency: Grand Traverse County Prosecutor’s Office • Location: Traverse City, MI • Department: Prosecuting Attorney’s Office • Reports to: Chief Assistant Prosecutor

About the role

Primary function is to independently provide legal secretarial and confidential litigation support to the Prosecuting Attorney’s office, including gathering and analysis of information requiring subjective judgment within defined parameters. Employees work as part of a team and are responsible for ensuring the team meets its objectives.

Responsibilities

• Provides litigation support as well as confidential administrative support to attorneys.
• Assembles information into proper legal form, files with appropriate court, and maintains control over the flow of documents, records, and files.
• Processes, compiles, researches, and analyzes legal information, and prepares and verifies reports, correspondence, and other documents utilizing applicable software, within established procedures.
• Transcribes legal dictation, conferences, and interviews.
• Provides comprehensive customer service, including delivery of accurate, prompt, and courteous assistance on complex policies, guidelines, and standard practices to internal and external customers, both verbally and in writing.
• Sorts, files, and maintains materials and filing systems (paper, computer or imaging), retrieves file materials, and keeps a record of file movement.
• Schedules and maintains department calendars and ensures court deadlines are met.
• Uses a wide variety of office machines such as printers, personal computers, facsimile machine, postage machine, adding machine, scanners, and copiers.
• Uses a wide variety of office software such as Microsoft Word, AS-400 and Prosecutor by Karpel for case management.

Requirements

• Graduation from High School, or G.E.D.
• Three (3) or more years of related legal experience is required.
• College level course work in a related field may substitute for up to one year of experience.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, Dental
• Wellness program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 401K
• Paid Holidays
• Personal Leave
• Parental Leave
• 457(b) retirement plan
• Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability

Pay

$20.92 – $25.37 hourly

Schedule

Full-time