OAG - Tort Litigation | Legal Assistant II - IV |

We need to extract job description content, format into semantic HTML with headings

for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Remove boilerplate, navigation, etc. The posting includes: General Description, Essential Position Functions (with details for II, III, IV), Minimum Qualifications (II, III, IV), Preferred Qualifications (partial). Also mentions benefits link but not details. No explicit Pay or Schedule. So we should not create Pay or Schedule sections. Benefits: mention "OAG employees enjoy excellent benefits (link)". That's a statement about benefits; we can include a Benefits section with that sentence. However we need to avoid placeholder like "not specified". It's specific enough: they mention excellent benefits and link. So include Benefits section with that sentence. About the role: could be the General Description paragraph. Use

About the role

then

with that text. Responsibilities: Essential Position Functions. Could combine II, III, IV but we can list responsibilities as bullet list. Since there are many duties, we can create

• each duty. Need to preserve all substantive info; not invent or summarize away detail. We need to include all duties listed. That is lengthy but doable. We have to avoid repeating job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc. We need to include Requirements? Might be Minimum Qualifications. Could treat as Requirements section. Or Qualifications. The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have Requirements (minimum qualifications) and Qualifications (preferred qualifications). Skills maybe separate but we could embed skills within qualifications. But we can include Skills section if there is specific skill list. The Minimum Qualifications list includes many skills: handling multiple tasks, prioritizing, meeting deadlines, effective oral/written communication, sound judgment, decision making, cite-checking, receive feedback, work cooperatively, excellent customer service, ability to work in person, arrange transportation, work >40 hours, lift 30 lbs, travel up to 5%. Those are skills/abilities. Could put them in Skills section. But we also have Requirements (education/experience). Might be better to have Requirements for education/experience, Qualifications for preferred, Skills for abilities. Let's parse. Minimum Qualifications for Legal Assistant II: Education: HS or equivalent; also Bachelor's degree can be substituted with experience; Knowledge of office procedures in a legal setting; Knowledge of and familiarity with legal documents; Knowledge of Westlaw, Westlaw Next, Lexis Nexis, or other related computerized legal research tools; Skill in handling multiple tasks, prioritizing, and meeting deadlines; Skill in effective oral and written communication; Skill in exercising sound judgment and effective decision making; Skill in cite-checking; Ability to receive and respond positively to constructive feedback; Ability to work cooperatively with others in a professional office environment; Ability to provide excellent customer service; Ability to work in person at assigned OAG work location, perform all assigned tasks at designated OAG workspace within OAG work location, and perform in-person work with coworkers (e.g., collaborating, training, mentoring) for the entirety of every work week (unless on approved leave); Ability to arrange for personal transportation for business-related travel; Ability to work more than 40 hours as needed and in compliance with the FLSA; Ability to lift and relocate 30 lbs.; Ability to travel (including overnight travel) up to 5%. Legal Assistant III adds: Experience: One year of full-time legal assistant experience. Legal Assistant IV adds: Experience: One additional year of full-time legal assistant experience; Ability to supervise the work of others. Preferred Qualifications: Education: Graduation from a course of study for legal assistants [Copy of certificate required at time of interview]; Experience: Legal Assistant experience in civil litigation with the TX Attorney General or other (cut off). We'll include what we have. Thus we can structure:

  About the role

  General description...

  Responsibilities

  • ... each duty from Essential Position Functions (covering II, III, IV). We need to ensure we don't duplicate lines. The Essential Position Functions list includes many bullet-like sentences separated by semicolons. We'll split into separate
  • items for each distinct duty. We'll need to capture all. Let's extract duties from the text: "Drafts, prepares, reviews and edits pleadings, motions, briefs, abstracts, legislative histories, petitions, summary judgments, rules, and other administrative and agency procedures;" "Participates in coordinating discovery, including the drafting, responding, and calendaring of interrogatories, requests for production, requests for admissions and other information in accordance with local, state, federal and agency rules and procedures" "Assists with coordinating, assembling, and preparing evidence, exhibits, affidavits, and other documents for use in legal proceedings; assists in all phases of trial preparation, including setting hearings/depositions/meetings, ordering medical records, coordinating discovery requests with client agencies, organizing trial notebooks and exhibits and preparing witnesses for trial; files pleadings with court" "Maintains calendar/docket, files, case openings and closings; maintains case information on electronic litigation case management system" "Researches and analyzes legal sources such as statutes, case law, administrative records, opinions, land titles, abstracts and rules and regulations; prepares memoranda on research findings; Reviews citations, quotations, footnotes, and references for accuracy" "Participates in managing attorneys caseloads including scheduling, prioritizing, preparing chronologies, fact summaries filing, case management; maintains calendar/docket, files, case openings and closings" "Prepares documents; organizes documents in litigation; prepares and coordinates service of subpoenas, notices of deposition and other legal documents to witnesses and parties to actions" "Assembles and prepares evidence, exhibits, affidavits, and documents for use in legal proceedings" "Schedules and prioritizes attorney caseloads; organizes case files; attends initial interviews and depositions; conducts investigations; prepares chronologies, fact summaries, and witness files" "Drafts interrogatories, requests for production, requests for admissions, and requests for information" "Performs related work as assigned" "Maintains relevant knowledge necessary to perform essential job functions" "Attends work regularly in compliance with agreed-upon work schedule" "Ensures security and confidentiality of sensitive and/or protected information" "Complies with all agency policies and procedures, including those pertaining to ethics and integrity" Then for Legal Assistant III: "Prepares synopses, abstracts, or summaries of complex legal issues"; "Prepares attorneys for meetings with complainants, witnesses, and expert witnesses"; "Drafts and responds to correspondence and opinion requests involving legal interpretations and decisions" Legal Assistant IV: "Conducts statistical, documentary, and investigatory research"; "Trains less experienced support staff" We need to include all. We'll create
    • for each distinct duty. Some sentences contain multiple actions separated by semicolons; we could split but might be okay to keep as one li. To preserve all info, we can keep each sentence as li. Now Requirements section: education/experience minimum qualifications. Could be

      Requirements

      • Education: Graduation from high school or equivalent; Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university; experience in the following (or closely related) fields may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis: legal assistant, legal secretary, or general office experience in a legal environment
      ... but we need to separate each bullet? Might be okay to have multiple li. Better to separate each distinct requirement: Education (HS or equivalent), Education substitution (Bachelor's degree can be substituted with experience), Knowledge of office procedures in a legal setting, Knowledge of and familiarity with legal documents, Knowledge of Westlaw, Westlaw Next, Lexis Nexis, or other related computerized legal research tools. Then Skills section: list the skills/abilities. Qualifications section: preferred qualifications. Benefits section: mention excellent benefits and link. We must not include Pay or Schedule. Now produce HTML fragment only. Let's craft. We need to ensure no markdown fences. We'll output:

      About the role

      The Tort Litigation Division of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is seeking a Legal Assistant that provides work which involves researching, analyzing, investigating, and drafting legal documents and assisting attorneys with case management. The OAG is a dynamic state agency with over 4,000 employees throughout the State of Texas. As the State's law firm, the OAG provides exemplary legal representation in diverse areas of law. OAG employees enjoy excellent benefits (https://ers.texas.gov/Benefits-at-a-Glance) along with tremendous opportunities to do important work at a large, dynamic state agency making a positive difference in the lives of Texans.

      But note benefits link already in Benefits section; we might not repeat link in About the role. The instruction: remove boilerplate, but we can keep the benefits mention in Benefits section only. In About the role we could keep the description without benefits link. The original General Description includes benefits mention. We could keep it but it's okay. However to avoid duplication, maybe keep it in About the role as it's part of general description. But then Benefits section would be duplicate. Better to keep About the role without benefits, and Benefits section with the benefits statement. Let's extract About the role: first two sentences before benefits. The General Description: "The Tort Litigation Division of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is seeking a Legal Assistant that provides work which involves researching, analyzing, investigating, and drafting legal documents and assisting attorneys with case management.The OAG is a dynamic state agency with over 4,000 employees throughout the State of Texas. As the States law firm, the OAG provides exemplary legal representation in diverse areas of law. OAG employees enjoy excellent benefits (https://ers.texas.gov/Benefits-at-a-Glance) along with tremendous opportunities to do important work at a large, dynamic state agency making a positive difference in the lives of Texans." We can split: About the role: first three sentences (up to "diverse areas of law.") Benefits: the sentence about benefits and opportunities. Thus About the role: "The Tort Litigation Division of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is seeking a Legal Assistant that provides work which involves researching, analyzing, investigating, and drafting legal documents and assisting attorneys with case management. The OAG is a dynamic state agency with over 4,000 employees throughout the State of Texas. As the State's law firm, the OAG provides exemplary legal representation in diverse areas of law." Benefits: "OAG employees enjoy excellent benefits (https://ers.texas.gov/Benefits-at-a-Glance) along with tremendous opportunities to do important work at a large, dynamic state agency making a positive difference in the lives of Texans." Now Responsibilities: list all duties. Let's craft list items: - Drafts, prepares, reviews and edits pleadings, motions, briefs, abstracts, legislative histories, petitions, summary judgments, rules, and other administrative and agency procedures - Participates in coordinating discovery, including the drafting, responding, and calendaring of interrogatories, requests for production, requests for admissions and other information in accordance with local, state, federal and agency rules and procedures - Assists with coordinating, assembling, and preparing evidence, exhibits, affidavits, and other documents for use in legal proceedings; assists in all phases of trial preparation, including setting hearings/depositions/meetings, ordering medical records, coordinating discovery requests with client agencies, organizing trial notebooks and exhibits and preparing witnesses for trial; files pleadings with court - Maintains calendar/docket, files, case openings and closings; maintains case information on electronic litigation case management system - Researches and analyzes legal sources such as statutes, case