Litigation Assistant

Description

Starting Salary: $57,265.68 per year

This is a full‑time position which includes a full range of benefits including Paid Time Off, Extended Medical Leave, Holidays, Employee Health, Dental, Life, Disability, Retirement, and Tuition Assistance programs.

The litigation assistant performs a variety of legal work and tasks to provide support and assistance to the assigned Attorney from case initiation until case disposition, including trial preparation. This position may telecommute occasionally.

• Drafts legal documents including pleadings and motions, affidavits, and interrogatories, files motions and pleadings according to judicial procedures.
• Prepares and submits court and investigative subpoenas for law enforcement and case attorneys.
• Meets with attorneys, clients, and other professionals to discuss assigned cases or projects.
• Attends meetings with case attorneys, evidence technicians, investigators, etc. to assist attorney in the selection of trial evidence and detail exhibit preparations.
• Prepares, organizes, stores, and retrieves case files.
• Prepares cases for trial when directed. This includes assisting at trials with voir dire and jury selection, exhibits, witness contacts and preparation, and note taking during trial.
• Prepares, sends, tracks, and retrieves evidence to/from Attorney General for appeals.
• Assist attorney in misdemeanor docket, Director of Revenue cases, jury trials, motion and bond hearings, preliminary hearings, and guilty pleas.
• Performs other duties as assigned.