Legal Assistant

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 15 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Agency Youll Join:
The New York City Mayors Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five boroughs coordinating public agencies and departments and managing public property. The administration is leading the fight in making the city more affordable reducing inequality improving public safety ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services and working to make New York Citys economy stronger. We value leadership transparency fairness and efficiency as we actively seek diverse talents from various sectors to join our team. For current job opportunities visit our careers page.

The Team Youll Work With:
The Office of the Chief Counsel to the Mayor and City Hall provides legal and strategic guidance to the Mayor and senior policymakers in City Hall on a broad range of matters including policy planning litigation legislation compliance ethics and transparency. Alongside several other initiatives and functions the Chief Counsel to the Mayor also supervises and coordinates the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (including the Environmental Control Board) the Mayors Office of Risk Management and Compliance and the Mayors Advisory Committee on the Judiciary in addition to liaising with and reviewing the activities of the Conflicts of Interest Board.

The Problems Youll Solve:
-Freedom of Information: Searching for and reviewing documents responsive to Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests preparing documents subject to public disclosure for production and tracking FOIL requests.
-Project Support: Providing support to the attorneys in the Office of the Chief Counsel including various forms of research legislative analysis developing and summarizing factual information for legal analysis and drafting written work product for attorney review.
-Working with attorneys on the team to create reports.
-Administrative management to include correspondence and document management.
-Working closely with the Chief Counsels Special Assistant to prepare and coordinate meetings.
-Transcribing complex legal records and notes into accurately typed documents.
-Assisting in the preparation of matters and projects assigned to team members or other senior staff.

About You:
-You have a commitment to public service.
-You have excellent judgment skills.
-You are trustworthy and discreet including the ability to keep sensitive information entirely confidential.
-You pay attention to detail.
-You can be a team player in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
-You have experience developing and/or operating systems for managing complex administrative processes.
-You have strong analytical and research skills and the ability to synthesize information.
-You have excellent writing and research skills.
-You can work in a responsive collaborative and creative manner on a wide variety of projects.

Minimum Required Qualifications:
-Bachelors Degree required.
-1 years of experience working in a legal assistant paralegal or equivalent capacity.

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Qualifications :

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or
2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in 1 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

Employment Type :

Full-time