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Senior Legal Assistant
Location: 124 Halsey Street, Newark, NJ 07102
Duration-12 Months
Work hours: 9 to 5
Lunch hour (unpaid): 1 hr
Dress code: Business Casual
1. Interview Mode: Web
2. Knowledge, skills, education, and/or experience: 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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.
6. Job responsibilities in Brief Provides secretarial /paralegal assistance to agency executives in legal environments who have complex program or operational responsibilities.