Under attorney supervision, the legal secretary will be preliminarily assigned to the Consumer Law Team and will provide support to attorneys, paralegals, and outreach workers with work that focuses on a variety of legal issues specific to Senior’s rights, public benefits, consumer fraud prevention and litigation.
Duties
- Provides administrative support to attorneys and legal advocates;
- Answers telephones, screens callers, take accurate messages and greets visitors;
- Communicates with clients as needed and directed by legal team staff;
- Prepares for attorney review and signature a variety of legal correspondence, petitions, pleadings, motions and interrogatories;
- Prepares outgoing correspondence to ensure all legal documents and enclosures are in proper processing order and that correspondence is grammatically correct;
- Files documents with the court and causes documents to be served;
- Maintains and schedules dates and deadlines in a case management system for timely filing of documents for court and administrative hearings and for the completion of tasks by advocates;
- Maintains follow up records relating to legal matters in process and ensures that legal requirements and deadlines are met;
- Performs a variety of secretarial duties, such as setting up and/or maintaining filing systems and appointment calendars, answering inquiries over the phone or in person, and managing secretarial and administrative details with minimum direction;
- Provides support in short term legal projects, including, but not limited to trial preparation tasks;
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Salary: $20.35 to $31.61 per hour
CCLS is an equal opportunity employer: we value equity, inclusion, and diversity, across all races, cultures, classes, ages, religions, gender identities and presentations, sexual orientations, body sizes, family structures, abilities, and all categories protected by law. We encourage all interested individuals to apply. CCLS is subject to a Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Posted: September 19, 2024