Legal Administrative Clerk - G115 - District Attorney

• Answers telephones; responds to inquiries from law enforcement agencies, the general public, and others; provides appropriate information including case numbers, case status, and court dates and times; forwards calls to appropriate personnel; takes messages. 
• Prepares Grand Jury subpoenas; receives files from attorneys; prepares subpoenas for the most important witnesses in the case.
•  Prepares indictments, accusations, and guilty pleas. 
• Prepares trial subpoenas; indicates witnesses and victims to be subpoenaed in computer record system; processes subpoenas to Sheriff's Office. 
• Performs other related duties as assigned. 

• Knowledge of office administration practices and procedures such as letter writing and the operation of standard office equipment. 
• Knowledge of computer applications. 
• Knowledge of legal terminology and legal research principles.  
• Knowledge of the techniques of record keeping, report preparation, filing methods, and records management. 
• Skill in researching, compiling, and summarizing information. 
• Skill in oral and written communication.

Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education. Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years.

The work is typically performed while sitting at a desk or table. The work is typically performed with the employee sitting, standing, walking, bending, crouching or stooping. The employee must occasionally lift light objects.  Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
• Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
• Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
• Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Standing – for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
• Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.

The work is typically performed in an office, library, or computer room.