Overview
Legal Assistant Jobs in Cary, USA at Mecklenburg County
Salary Range: $27.57/hr – $34.46/hr this is a non‑exempt position. Pay rates are based on education, skill, experience level and internal equity.
Position Summary
Provides legal assistance to Child Support Enforcement (CSE), Youth and Family Services (YFS), or Services for Adults (SFA) attorneys. Perform secretarial or administrative duties using legal terminology, procedures, and documents within assigned area. This position, under general supervision, prepares legal papers and correspondence as necessary and, for CSE, accompanies attorneys to court. Assistant will interface with CSE, YFS, or SFA staff, depending on the area assigned, and court staff to assist child support enforcement or youth and family or adult services attorneys by drafting pleadings, checking service, preparing discovery, conducting research, checking court records, preparing, completing, and filing court orders as required, communicating with private attorneys and other routine office duties as directed on a daily basis.
Essential
Functions
- Perform general office duties associated with assigned area such as receiving and placing telephone calls; schedule and make appointments; and draft office memos
- Mail, fax, or arrange for delivery of legal correspondence to clients, witnesses, and court officials; make photocopies of correspondence, documents, and other printed material
- Prepare and distribute invoices to bill clients or pay account expenses
- Prepare, process and file legal documents and papers, such as summonses, subpoenas, court orders, complaints, appeals, motions, and pretrial agreements
- Assist attorneys in collecting any necessary information such as employment, medical, or other records
- Complete various forms, such as reports, trial and courtroom requests, court orders and applications for clients
- Attend legal meetings, such as client interviews, hearings, or depositions, and take notes
- Review legal publications and perform database searches to identify laws and court decisions relevant to pending cases
- Submit articles and information from searches to attorneys for review and approval for use
- Organize and maintain law libraries, documents, and case files
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience:
Minimum of two years of directly related experience
- Education:
High School diploma or equivalent
- Combination of relevant education and relevant experience: N/A
Licenses and Certifications
May require a valid North Carolina or South Carolina Driver’s License.
Knowledge,
Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of
- Legal document formats such as contracts, complaints, summonses, briefs, and motions
- Administrative and clerical procedures and systems, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology
- The structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar
- Laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules and process
- Principles and processes for providing customer and personal services
Skills
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times
- Talking to others to convey information effectively
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
- Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions
- Managing one’s own time and the time of others
- Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do
Abilities
- Adaptability:
Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures - Building Trust:
Interacting with others in a way that instills confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization - Collaboration:
Working effectively and…
Title: Legal Assistant
Company: Mecklenburg County
Location: Cary, USA
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