Description
Job Title: Legal Assistant
Department: Prosecution
Supervisor: Shareholder
Summary:
This role will provide administrative support for our fast-paced prosecution department.
Responsibilities:
- Open, process and maintain case files using a prosecution management software
- Generate reports
- Assist with county jail calendars
- Distribute daily mail
- Prepare evidence packets for trials and hearings
- Provide administrative support to the prosecution team
- Back up team members during absences or during heavy workloads
- Back up phones during the lunch hour
- Special projects as assigned
Qualifications:
- 2 – 4 years’ experience working in an administrative role in prosecution or criminal law
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Proven working experience as legal assistant or legal secretary
- Familiarity with law, legal procedures and protocols, and court system
- Experience in supporting all levels of management
- Strong written and verbal communications
- Ability to work both in a team setting and independently
- Demonstrated attention to detail
- Ability to exercise discretion in handling confidential, controversial or sensitive information
- Ability to work well under pressure and within tight deadlines
Physical Requirements:
- Sedentary strength demands include exerting up to 10 pounds occasionally or negligible weights frequently; sitting most of the time.
- Continuously requires vision, hearing, twisting, and talking.
- Frequently requires standing, fine dexterity, sitting, and handling.
- Occasionally requires walking, lifting, carrying, reaching, kneeling, pushing/pulling, bending, and crouching.
- Rarely requires climbing.
- Machines, Tools, Equipment and Work Aids: Telephone, calculator, printer, and copier.
- Working Conditions Overall Working Conditions: Good: Relatively free from unpleasant environmental conditions or hazards.
- Primary Work Location: Office Environment.
- Protective Equipment Required: None.
- Non-Physical Demands: Frequently requires performing multiple tasks simultaneously, working closely with others as part of a team, and tedious or exacting work.
- Occasionally requires time pressures and frequent change of tasks.
- Occasionally requires overtime
- Rarely noisy/distracting environment.
Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Job Title: Legal Assistant
The above statements are intended to describe the general purpose and responsibilities assigned to this job and are not intended to represent an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills that may be required. Eckberg Lammers and/or my manager has the right to add or change duties at any time. This job description supersedes all prior job descriptions for this position as well as rescinding all past and present job descriptions that do not reflect the current requirements of this position. My signature below indicates I understand and acknowledge my job description.
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