Legal Secretary - Public Defender
Overview & Benefits:
Oakland County is a progressive place to work, where innovation and ambition are rewarded. We understand the many challenges facing today's professionals and families so we offer competitive wages and salaries, and a full benefits package with which you'd be quite impressed!
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General Summary:Responsible for performing a variety of responsible assignments involving legal secretarial, and clerical support activities for a group of attorneys. Duties for a section chief or unit supervisor may be assigned. Using a personal computer, prepares, completes, and performs final review of various legal forms.
Takes and transcribes legal and confidential dictation and pleadings. Performs confidential secretarial duties, maintains and provides information requiring familiarity with departmental and legal proceedings to the public. The Prosecuting Attorney is primarily involved with Criminal law, and Corporation Counsel with Contract and Civil law.
Utilizes current Countywide and/or department specific software to complete assignments.
Required Minimum Qualifications:
- Be a high school graduate or have a certificate of successful completion of the General Education Development Test.
- Have had at least four (4) years of full-time clerical experience, at least one (1) year of which included full-time legal secretary responsibility.
NOTE: Course work at an accredited college, university, business, or commercial school in a directly related area may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for up to two (2) years of the required clerical experience. One year of classroom experience after admittance to law school or a para-legal program may be substituted for the legal secretary experience.
Special Requirements:
N/A
Pay Range: USD $40,078.00 - USD $53,696.00 /Yr.
EEO Statement:
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