Legal Assistant - Criminal Appeals
Legal Assistant - Criminal Appeals
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Job Posting Title
Legal Assistant Criminal AppealsAgency
049 ATTORNEY GENERALSupervisory Organization
Oklahoma Attorney GeneralJob Posting End Date (Continuous if Blank)
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.
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Full/PartTime
Full timeJob Type
RegularCompensation
Job Description
Title: Legal Assistant
Salary Range: Commensurate with experience and qualifications
FLSA Status: Nonexempt
Location: Oklahoma City OK
The Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General is currently seeking a fulltime Legal Assistant in our Criminal Appeals Unit.
Position Summary:
The Criminal Appeals Unit (Unit) represents the state in the criminal appeals process to ensure that the lawful decisions rendered by judges and juries are upheld in the appellate courts. The Units Legal Assistants play a pivotal role in the smooth and successful operation of the Unit. The Unit maintains a demanding workflow so the successful candidate must have a positive attitude a flexible personality and interpersonal and emotional sensitivity. Furthermore because the successful candidate will work as part of a team of legal assistants the successful candidate must be a team player. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Essential Functions:
- Provide legal assistance to multiple attorneys
- Prepare pleadings briefs exhibits correspondence discovery and court filings and complete electronic filing
- Assist in maintaining electronic and physical files
- Docketing
- Data entry
- Scanning printing and binding
- Obtain court documents as requested by attorneys
- Conduct legal research
- Miscellaneous administrative tasks such as sorting mail preparing meeting calendar invites etc.
- Other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications:
- Applicant must be detailoriented with exceptional organizational skills; excellent spelling and grammar skills; proficiency in Microsoft Word Outlook and WordPerfect.
- Must have the ability to prepare a variety of complex pleadings and correspondence including Table of Authorities and Indexing as well as the ability to prioritize workflow manage sometimes competing deadlines and address new priorities as they arise.
- Must interact respectfully and productively with all Unit staff including regular contact with and reporting to the Deputy Attorney General of Criminal Appeals.
Preferred Qualifications:
- In addition to ECF experience knowledge of 10th Circuit and United States Supreme Court filing procedures preferred.
All applicants must agree in writing to complete and satisfactorily pass a background investigation.
The Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General is an equal employment employer and does not make hiring decisions on the basis of race sex/gender color age national origin genetic information religion or disability so long as the disability does not render the person unable to perform the essential functions of the position for which employed with a reasonable accommodation. If reasonable accommodations are needed to apply for this position please contact OAG Human Resources ator All employees of the Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General are at will employees.
Equal Opportunity Employment
The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information race religion color sex age national origin or disability.
Current active State of Oklahoma employees must apply for open positions internally through the Workday Jobs Hub.
Employment Type
Full-Time
