Appellate Court Clerk 2 PACMS

Starting Salary Range: $45,698-$55,007
Department: Reporter’s Office

Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posting Date: 5/1/2024
Benefits: Link to Benefits

Description
This is generally an oversight position that entails complex clerical work in an appellate court. Work
involves performing a variety of quality control processes and clerical functions which will require
multiple PACMS security roles. Duties will require the application of independent judgement and the
interpretation of routine policies and regulations on the basis of training and knowledge gained through
experience on the job.

Typical Duties
Maintains all records pertaining to each judge’s inventory and provides reminders regarding assignments, votes,

and filings.
Provides quality control review of all Chambers’ PACMS entries and sends notices for corrections regarding errors

and omissions.
Serves in an advisory capacity in responding to inquiries from Chambers’ secretaries and law clerks regarding court-

specific business processes and assisting with PACMS navigation.
Serves as back-up administrative staff when requested by Chambers. Duties entail circulating decisions, processing

motions and orders, entering votes and filing decisions.
Compiles Chambers’ monthly inventory reports.
Maintains the Superior Court landing page of the UJS website with case related postings which includes daily

dispositions, tables of unpublished decisions, reargument tables, and update the postings with the reargument
status and citation.

Communicates regularly with the Court’s publishers providing precedential decisions, tables of reargument, tables
of non-precedential decisions, notices of a change in case status and ceremonial transcripts.

Maintains the Court’s internal database of non-precedential decisions, SCOPIN.
Oversees a variety of the Prothonotary’s PACMS entries used in compiling various statistical reports and performing

a variety of Reporter processes.
Provides correction notices to each Prothonotary’s district office identifying errors or omission and recommend the

corrective measures as needed.
Completes weekly reports for Central Legal Staff and provides them to the staff attorneys and their supervisors.
Perform related work supporting the Deputy Reporter and Reporter.

Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree and/or paralegal certification from an accredited college or university.
An equivalent combination of education and experience, and/or training may be considered.

Additional Qualifications/Preferences

Enhanced attention to detail within a fast-paced work environment.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, and Outlook)
Satisfactory criminal background check required.

How to Apply
Submit all resumes to SuperiorReporterPosition@pacourts.us e-mail address.

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