Legal Secretary (Clerical) Los Angeles Unified School District 1,114 reviews - Los Angeles, CA $22.58 an hour A Legal Secretary performs specialized and extremely confidential secretarial and related duties for staff attorneys and other staff members. Benefits Insurance: Paid premiums for your choice of several medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans. Retirement: Membership in the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS). Vacation: Two weeks of paid vacation to start. Three weeks after five years of year-round paid service. Paid Holidays: 12 days. Job Duties/Responsibilities Typical duties may include: * Assists in maintaining dockets and calendars showing the status of pending litigation, requests for legal opinions, and other matters, and through e-mail, reminding the staff attorneys, paralegals, and other staff members of deadlines for preparing litigation documents, opinions, and other such documents. * Arranges appointments and conferences for attorneys, paralegals, and other staff members. * Assists in composing and typing routine memoranda for signature by an attorney. * Assists in the preparation of correspondence, legal opinions, and other legal documents. * May prepare necessary travel and reimbursement documents for attorneys, paralegals, and other staff members. * Photocopies and makes arrangements for filing litigation documents in appropriate courts and for obtaining court transcripts. * Receives and screens telephone calls for staff attorneys, paralegals, and other staff members. To view the complete class description, please visit www.lausdjobs.org. Minimum Requirements Education: Graduation from high school or evidence of equivalent educational proficiency. Completion of an associates degree in Legal Secretarial Science, certification in Legal Secretarial Science, or certification as a paralegal from a program approved by the American Bar Association. NOTE: Candidates must attach a copy of relevant education documents to their application to be considered for this position. Experience: Visit us at www.lausdjobs.org Two years of experience that includes assisting attorneys in preparing and compiling legal and litigation forms, pleadings, discovery, and other documents, using legal template software, and screening and routing calls. Special Note: Must be able to work flexible hours including evenings and weekends. Candidates will be required to present OFFICIAL college transcripts or ORIGINAL college degrees at the time of the Technical Interview. Candidates who have completed college or university coursework at an institution in a country other than the United States MUST obtain an official, sealed, complete evaluation of foreign transcripts and degrees at their own cost. Please be sure to request a DETAILED report. Please visit http://www.ctc.ca.gov/credentials/leaflets/cl635.pdf for a list of approved organizations. Desirable Qualifications The ideal candidate for the Legal Secretary position has several years of experience in providing administrative support for litigators. This candidate has worked on dozens of demurrers and motions for summary judgment and is skilled in managing and maintaining litigation files. S/he is experienced in preparing motions and exhibits, preparing table of contents and authorities, and filing/e-filing with the court. This candidate knows how to prepare, process, and serve discovery requests and discovery responses and is familiar with the task of contract drafting. S/he is very capable in the use of Microsoft Office Suite, particularly with Word, Excel, Outlook, as well as other productivity tools, such as Adobe Acrobat. Ideally, this candidate is a team player and has a strong work ethics/he willingly steps up to assist others to ensure that big projects are completed on time. S/he is very organized; detail oriented; and has good follow through in completing tasks. Lastly, as a representing member of the districts Office of the General Counsel, this candidate presents and interacts professionally with colleagues, clients, court staff, and opposing counsel. Employment Selection Process The selection process for this position will tentatively consist of a Computer-Based Skill Assessment, Technical Project, and a Technical Interview. We anticipate receiving a number of well qualified applicants for this position; therefore there will be a competitive process. The hiring departments have requested that we proceed with the selection process in an expeditious and timely manner. To honor this request we will be adhering to a pre-planned employment assessment schedule. For up-to-date information about test dates, view our testing schedule by Visit us at www.lausdjobs.org visiting our website at http://www.lausdjobs.org - My LAUSD Career/Hiring Process/Pre-Employment Testing Process. As testing dates may change, we encourage you to visit this site periodically to confirm testing schedules. For more information about the LAUSD employment assessment process, visit the 'My LAUSD Career' section of our website at http://www.lausdjobs.org . Please be sure to include correspondence from @lausd.net as an approved sender so that messages aren't accidentally placed into your spam/junk e-mail folder. Application Process DO YOU NEED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WITH THE ON-LINE APPLICATION? Call 213-241-3455 Weekdays 8:00 am 4:30 pm or email us at helpmeapply@lausd.net. To find out whether the application deadline has been extended, visit the website at: http://www.lausdjobs.org . The Los Angeles Unified School District intends that all qualified persons shall have equal opportunities for employment and promotion. Reasonable accommodations in completing an application and testing are available to individuals with disabilities. Please call (213) 241-3455 for more information. Reasonable accommodations in completing an application and testing are available to individuals with disabilities. Please call (213) 241-3455 for more information. Additional Posting Information Selection and promotion are based on a competitive employment assessment process. Candidates who pass all parts of the assessment process are placed on a hiring (eligibility) list based on their assessment score. Hiring departments may make job offers to candidates on the top three ranks of the hiring list. Eligibility typically lasts for 12 months. The hiring list resulting from this assessment process may be used to fill open positions in related job classifications. Follow us on: Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/LAUSDCareers?v=wall Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/lausdjobs LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/ Visit us at www.lausdjobs.org 5 hours ago - save job - original job Apply On Company Site Other jobs you may like Legal Secretary/Paralegal Century City Family Law Office Los Angeles, CA 3 hours ago Easily apply Legal Secretary/Administrative Assistant Michael L. 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