OAG - Transportation | Legal Assistant

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Come join an exciting and vital team helping provide the roads, bridges, tunnels, and other infrastructure for the fastest-growing state:
Texas! As Texas grows so does its need for transportation infrastructure. To assist the Texas Department of Transportation in implementing its transportation projects, the Transportation Division of the Attorney General’s Office is adding numerous new legal assistant positions. You can be a part of the State’s tremendous growth. The Transportation Division represents TxDOT in acquiring needed property through eminent domain, and in lawsuits spanning diverse subject areas including torts, worker’s compensation, employment discrimination, contracts, and regulatory enforcement in both state and federal courts.

The Transportation Division has a robust litigation docket that includes administrative hearings, motion and discovery practice, jury trials, and matters before the appellate courts.

The OAG is a dynamic state agency with over 4,000 employees throughout the State of Texas. 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.

• Participates in managing attorneys’ caseloads, including scheduling, prioritizing, organizing files and preparing chronologies and summaries.
• Drafts, prepares, reviews and edits pleadings, motions, briefs, petitions, summary judgments and other legal documents for use in trials, appeals, hearings, injunctions and other agency procedures.
• Participates in coordinating complex 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.
• Assists in all phases of trial preparation, including setting/attending hearings, depositions, meetings, ordering records, preparing and coordinating service of subpoenas, organizing trial notebooks and exhibits and preparing witnesses for trial.
• Maintains a working knowledge of litigation technology including trial presentation software and e-discovery.
• Develops and maintains databases for statistical and other information.
• Communicates with agency personnel, client agencies, court personnel and outside vendors.
• Attends work regularly in accordance with Agency leave policy.
• Complies with all agency policies and procedures, including but not limited to applicable security and safety rules, regulations and standards.
• 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 pertaining to ethics and integrity.

• Education:
  
  Graduation from high school or equivalent.
• Experience:
  
  Three years of full-time experience as a legal assistant, legal secretary, or general office experience in a legal environment; may substitute ninety credit hours from an accredited college or university with major coursework in law or a related field on a year-for-year basis.
• Knowledge of general office practices.
• Skill in using computer for word-processing and data entry/retrieval.
• Skill in effective oral and written communication.
• Skill in exercising sound judgment and effective decision making.
• Ability to prepare and review legal documents.
• Ability to receive and respond positively to constructive feedback.
• Ability to work cooperatively with others in a professional office environment.
• Ability to provide excellent customer service.
• Ability to work in person at assigned OAG work location, perform all assigned tasks at designated OAG workspace within OAG work location, and perform in-person work with coworkers (e.g., collaborating, training, mentoring) for the entirety of every work…