OAG - Bankruptcy & Collections | Legal Assistant III - IV

General Description

The Office of the Attorney General, a dynamic state agency with over 4,000 employees throughout the State of Texas, is hiring a Legal Assistant for the Bankruptcy & Collections Division. The Bankruptcy & Collections Division is the centralized collection authority for the State, charged with the responsibility to recover all debts, judgments, taxes, fees, fines, penalties, loans, and other obligations referred to the agency for collection.

Division attorneys represent and protect the State’s monetary, regulatory, and policy interests in bankruptcy cases as they may appear.

The OAG seeks a highly qualified legal assistant to join the Bankruptcy Regulatory Team. The Bankruptcy Regulatory Team represents state regulatory agencies such as the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the General Land Office, the Texas Railroad Commission, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, and the Public Utility Commission as well as other OAG divisions including Consumer Protection, Healthcare Program Enforcement, and Environmental Protection in complex, high profile bankruptcy cases across the country.

The Bankruptcy Regulatory Team routinely works with other state attorney general offices in national bankruptcy cases. As the State’s law firm, the OAG provides exemplary legal representation in diverse areas of law. OAG employees enjoy excellent benefits ((Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).) along with tremendous opportunities to do important work at a large, dynamic state agency making a positive difference in the lives of Texans.

• Drafts, prepares, reviews, and edits pleadings, motions, briefs, abstracts, legislative histories, petitions, summary judgments, rules, and correspondence in accordance with federal court and other applicable policies and rules
• Researches and analyzes legal sources such as statutes, case law, administrative records, opinions, abstracts and rules and regulations; prepares memoranda on research findings
• Prepares settlement and judgment documents; may interview witnesses and assists with background investigations; organizes documents
• Prepares and coordinates service of subpoenas, notices of deposition and other legal documents to witnesses and parties to actions
• Participates in coordinating, assembling and preparing evidence, exhibits, affidavits and other documents for use in legal proceedings
• Participates in coordinating discovery, including the drafting, responding and calendaring of interrogatories, requests for production, requests for admissions and other requests for information in accordance with local, state, federal and agency rules and procedures
• Participates in managing attorneys’ case-loads including scheduling, prioritizing, investigating, preparing chronologies, fact summaries and filing
• Schedules, attends, assists, and prepares attorneys for hearings, trials, agency meetings, appellate arguments, depositions, docket calls, administrative hearings or committee meetings
• Reviews citations, quotations, footnotes, and references for accuracy; key cites cases
• Reviews mail and screens calls for attorneys
• Files pleadings with court
• Assists with coordinating, assembling and preparing evidence, exhibits, affidavits and other documents for use in legal proceedings
• Assists in all phases of trial preparation, including setting hearings/depositions/meetings, ordering demonstrative aides, coordinating discovery requests with client agencies, organizing trial notebooks and exhibits and preparing witnesses for trial
• Assists attorneys and support staff with case management
• Maintains calendar/docket, files, case openings and closings
• Communicates with state agencies, court personnel or outside entities
• Prepares Travel Requests and Travel Vouchers for attorneys and staff
• Assists Office Manager as needed
• Performs related work as assigned
• Maintains relevant knowledge necessary to perform essential job functions
• Attends work regularly in compliance with agreed-upon work schedule
• Ensures security and confidentiality of sensitive and/or protected information
• Complies with all agency policies and procedures, including those…