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Legal Secretary
Phoenix, AZ

Summary:

- Position: Legal Secretary at Maricopa County's Office of the Legal Advocate
- Salary: $21.00 - $34.00 hourly
- Job Type: Full time, unclassified
- Experience: 2 years in a legal setting, knowledge in legal preparations and proceedings
- Education: High school diploma required, post-secondary education may substitute for experience
- Additional skills: Criminal law or indigent defense office experience, certificate of completion from accredited secretarial school or legal secretary training program

Responsibilities:

- Type and prepare legal documents, briefs, petitions, and memoranda from written copy, oral or mechanical dictation
- Transcribe witness interviews from recordings
- Answer multi-line phone, screen calls, transfer and take messages
- Act as receptionist, direct visitors, sort and distribute mail
- Coordinate case files and calendars, schedule meetings and interviews, prepare court calendars
- Photocopy documents and confidential materials
- Support attorneys representing clients charged with or convicted of crimes
- Access information electronically and update internal case tracking systems
- Hand-deliver and pick up documents on- and off-site
- Box and retrieve files for long-term storage

Qualifications:

- 2 years of experience in a legal setting with knowledge in legal preparations and proceedings
- High school diploma required, post-secondary education may substitute for experience
- Criminal law or indigent defense office experience preferred
- Certificate of completion from accredited secretarial school or legal secretary training program preferred

Working Conditions:

- Ability to work with traumatic subject matter
- Frequent interruptions, time pressures, high volumes of work, handling multiple or complicated tasks, unscheduled tasks, frequently changing tasks, accuracy, decision making, concentration/vigilance, teamwork, working in close physical proximity with others, and public contact
- May be required to lift up to 25 pounds and carry up to 25 pounds for short distances

Benefits:

- Tuition reimbursement
- Work-life balance
- Opportunities for growth and development within Maricopa County
- Low-cost, high-value healthcare for employee and qualifying dependents
- Child care benefits
- Paid vacation, sick time, and parental leave
- Extensive wellness program
- Participation in Arizona State Retirement System with employer match on Day 1

Selection Procedure:

- Only the most qualified candidates will be considered
- Consideration will only be given to candidates who submit online applications
- Candidates will be contacted primarily through email and their Workday online application profile
- Must pass pre-employment background and/or fingerprint investigation, including drug and alcohol testing for safety-sensitive positions

Maricopa County is an equal opportunity employer.






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