Temporary, Contractor, Full-time
Administrative Management, Administrative Skills, Calendar Management, Case Management, Detail Oriented, Executive Assistant Skills , File Maintenance, Information Technology & Information Systems, Legal, Legal Briefs, Legal Documents, Legal Standards, Legal Support Skills, Logistics, Paralegal, Proofreading, Regulatory Compliance, Telephone Skills, Time Management, Travel Planning, Word Processing, Writing Skills
Job Description:
Knowledge, skills, education, and/or experience: Transcribes or types legal dictation with accuracy and attention to details
- Prepares standard legal forms in compliance with established requirements
- Reviews and proofreads legal briefs, pleadings, transcriptions, and citations for accuracy and clarity
- Verifies the accuracy and completeness of citations and references
- Drafts and formats correspondence and other written materials
- Maintains confidential case files, follow-up records, and other essential legal documentation
- Learns and applies various electronic, manual, and computerized information systems used by the agency, office, or related units
- Prepares and formats legal documents in accordance with established standards and guidelines
- Scans and organizes documents for electronic and physical filing
- Schedules appointments and coordinates meeting logistics
- Manages and maintains calendars to ensure accurate scheduling and timely reminders
Mandatory skills/certification(s) Requirement: Transcribes or types legal dictation with accuracy and attention to detail
- Prepares standard legal forms in compliance with established requirements
- Reviews and proofreads legal briefs, pleadings, transcriptions, and citations for accuracy and clarity
- Verifies the accuracy and completeness of citations and references
- Drafts and formats correspondence and other written materials
- Maintains confidential case files, follow-up records, and other essential legal documentation
- Learns and applies various electronic, manual, and computerized information systems used by the agency, office, or related units
- Prepares and formats legal documents in accordance with established standards and guidelines
- Scans and organizes documents for electronic and physical filing
- Schedules appointments and coordinates meeting logistics
- Manages and maintains calendars to ensure accurate scheduling and timely reminders
Desired skills: Transcribes or types legal dictation with accuracy and attention to detail
- Prepares standard legal forms in compliance with established requirements
- Reviews and proofreads legal briefs, pleadings, transcriptions, and citations for accuracy and clarity
- Verifies the accuracy and completeness of citations and references
- Drafts and formats correspondence and other written materials
- Maintains confidential case files, follow-up records, and other essential legal documentation
- Learns and applies various electronic, manual, and computerized information systems used by the agency, office, or related units
- Prepares and formats legal documents in accordance with established standards and guidelines
- Scans and organizes documents for electronic and physical filing
- Schedules appointments and coordinates meeting logistics
- Manages and maintains calendars to ensure accurate scheduling and timely reminders
Job Duties:
- Provides secretarial /paralegal assistance to agency executives in legal environments who have complex program or operational responsibilities.
- Performs research, management, and case investigative work. Drafts affidavits, pleadings, briefs and interrogatories. Prepares exhibit books.
- Reads and summarizes depositions for trail use. Responds to plaintiff’s discovery requests.
- Interviews witnesses and defendants to prepare for trail. Uses word processing system to key, proofread and edit letters, memoranda, briefs, pleadings, expense, travel and miscellaneous forms from handwritten drafts, dictation and t typed drafts.
- Takes and transcribes legal dictation. Types routine correspondence. Answers telephone, take messages, direct calls, receive clients and distribute deliveries.
- Performs other assigned duties such as mail, creating case files and filing, completing and maintaining forms, and making travel arrangements. Considerable knowledge of the State and/or federal court systems, of legal case management and litigation support techniques.
- Considerable knowledge of legal terminology, office / administrative management ability with a variety of clerical / administrative duties.
- Ability to use word processing software / systems. Paralegal training or experience.
Job responsibilities in Brief:
- Provides secretarial /paralegal assistance to agency executives in legal environments who have complex program or operational responsibilities.
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Codinix Technologies, Inc.