Legal Assistant - Criminal Appeals

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Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.

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Full/Part-Time

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Job Description

Title:  Legal Assistant

Salary Range: Commensurate with experience and qualifications

FLSA Status: Non-exempt

Location:  Oklahoma City, OK

The Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General is currently seeking a full-time 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 Unit’s 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 detail-oriented 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 at (405) 521-3921 or HR@oag.ok.gov. 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.