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City of Jacksonville Legal Assistant - Litigation in Jacksonville, Florida
Legal Assistant - Litigation
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Legal Assistant - Litigation
Salary
$50,000.00 - $60,000.00 Annually
Location
Jacksonville, FL
Job Type
Appointed Employee
Job Number
2025-06340
Department
OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL
Opening Date
12/20/2024
Closing Date
Continuous
Description
Benefits
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Job Description
The City of Jacksonville Office of General Counsel is seeking a legal assistant with three (3) years of experience as a legal assistant in litigation. Successful candidates must possess strong analytical and detail oriented skills, superior computer skills, and organizational skills. Candidates also must be able to prioritize workloads, perform administrative task, and have knowledge of electronic filing in state and federal courts, ability to prepare pleadings, motions, discovery and correspondence relating to litigation matters as assigned.
We offer competitive salary and benefits. Employees in this role deal with subjects legal in nature and must be familiar with legal terminology. Employees provide paraprofessional legal support to attorney(s), and may specialize in litigation, bankruptcy, real estate, labor and employment, legislative affairs, or government operations and commercial law.
Salary will be commensurate with legal experience.
Examples of Work
EMPHASIS ON LITIGATION
Provides administrative and litigation support to attorney(s).
Communicates with clients, vendors and witnesses.
Helps prepare documents such as pleadings, applications, declarations and motions, initial drafts of routine legislation.
Drafts, reviews and revises legal and professional documents.
Maintains, organizes and creates resources and databases.
Coordinates and schedules conferences with clients, witnesses and opposing parties.
Obtain data from clients and second parties.
Creates letters, basis of claims, and other forms.
Creates documents from templates as necessary.
Monitors all litigation cases docketed via an electronic filing system and provide regular updates and calendaring and internal pleading files.
Establishes, organizes and maintains physical evidence and exhibits, attorney notebooks, witness notebooks, document indexes and lists.
Organizes and compiles documents relating to litigation, contracts, closing documents, legislation and land use.
Handles electronic filing of legal documents in courts.
Calendar scheduling and follow up for deadlines.
Schedules and manages witnesses through litigation process.
Performs other duties as may be assigned from time to time
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of legal principles and practices at a level normally acquired through formal paralegal training and associated experience.
Proficient in Word, WordPerfect, Outlook, Access and Excel data program management; knowledge of TABS3software is a plus.
Exceptional ability to organize and prioritize numerous tasks and complete them under time constraints.
Ability to concentrate and pay close attention to detail for up to 75 percent of the work time when evaluating legal matters.
Ability to proofread materials for contextual, grammatical, typographical, or spelling errors.
Interpersonal skills critical in order to communicate in person, by e-mail and telephone and follow the instruction effectively from a diverse group of clients, attorneys and staff and provide information with ordinary courtesy and tact.
Work occasionally requires a high level of mental effort and strain while organizing and maintaining multiple cases.
Work may occasionally require more than 40 hours per week to perform the essential duties of the position.
Ability to operate standard office equipment such as computers, photocopiers and fax machines.
Ability to schedule and manage attorney's appointments on calendar.
Familiarity with electronic filing in CORE and/or ECF.
Knowledge of the Local Florida Rules of Court.
Open Requirements/Supplemental Information
- Three years of experience as a legal assistant OR three years of administrative experience OR a masters' degree is required.
A FULLY COMPLETED ONLINE APPLICATION IS REQUIRED. Apply at www. (http://www.coj.net) jacksonville.gov. A copy of your resume is required with your application. Work history is required for all employment/volunteer work in which qualifications are being based.
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Certain servicemembers and veterans, and the spouses and the family members of such service members and veterans, receive preference and priority, and certain servicemembers may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements, in employment and are encouraged to apply for positions being filled.
If claiming veteran's preference, you must attach a DD-214 (Member Form-4 copy) or military discharge papers, or equivalent certification from the Department of Veterans Affairs listing military status, dates of service and character of discharge. You must also attach the Veterans Preference Certification Form and if applicable, the additional forms as noted here: http://www.coj.net/departments/employee-services/veterans-preference
If a candidate believes he or she was not afforded veteran’s preference, he or she may file a written complaint, within 60 calendar days upon receipt of notification of the hiring decision, requesting an investigation to:
Florida Department of Veterans Affairs
Attention: Veterans’ Preference Coordinator
11351 Ulmerton Road, Suite 311-K
Largo, FL 33778-1630
Email: VeteransPreference@fdva.state.fl.us
The City of Jacksonville provides a wide array of benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Our comprehensive benefit programs include medical, dental and vision plans; life insurance coverage for you and your dependents; flexible spending plans for medical reimbursement, dependent care, parking, and transit expenses; an employee assistance program for you and your dependents; a 457(b) tax-deferred compensation plan to supplement your retirement, and a ROTH IRA plan. We also provide an extensive wellness program that includes a health intervention program if qualified, lunch and learns, health fairs, and discounted gym memberships. Please visit the Employee Benefits website for details on all the plans we offer.
www.coj.net/benefits
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Each applicant must complete this supplemental questionnaire as a part of the application screening and selection process. The information you provide will be reviewed and used to determine your eligibility to move forward in the selection process. Copying and pasting your resume or stating "see resume" does NOT fulfill the requirements of the question. Incomplete responses, false statements, omissions, or partial information may result in disqualification from the selection process. Do you agree to answer each supplemental question truthfully and certify that your responses can be verified from information included within the application?
Yes
No
02
Are you authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship from the City of Jacksonville either now or in the future?
Yes
No
03
The budgeted annual salary range for this position is $50,000.00 - $60,000.00. This is not negotiable. If selected, would you be willing to accept this position in this pay range?
Yes
No
04
Do you have a minimum of three (3) years of experience as a legal assistant OR or three (3) years of administrative experience OR a masters'?
I have a minimum of three (3) years of experience as a legal assistant
I have a minimum of three (3) years of administrative experience
I have a masters' degree.
Two of more of the above.
All of the above.
None of the above.
05
If you have a degree, indicate which degree you have and include any major/minor. If basing qualifications on education, a copy of your college transcript is required with your application.
06
Indicate the organization(s) you worked for where you gained this experience.
07
Provide a detailed description (at least 3-4 complete sentences) of your experience.
08
Familiarity with electronic filing in CORE, Pacer and ECF is required. Are you familiar with these systems.
I am familiar with CORE.
I am familiar with ECF.
I am familiar with Pacer.
I am familiar with two of the systems
I am familiar with all three systems.
None of the above.
09
How often do you use CORE, Pacer and/or ECF in your daily work?
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Indicate the organization(s) you worked for where you gained experience with CORE, Pacer and/or ECF.
11
Provide a detailed description (at least 3-4 complete sentences) of your experience with CORE, Pacer and/or ECF.
12
Do you have experience in the areas of labor and/or employment law - including Title VII and ADA experience? If yes, indicate the number of years and explain your experience in labor and/or employment law.
13
Do you have experience in the area of Civil Rights litigation? If yes, indicate the number of years and explain your experience in Civil Rights litigation.
14
Do you have experience in the area of commercial or business litigation? If yes, indicate the number of years and explain your experience.
15
Do you have experience in preparing and/or responding to discovery requests? If yes, indicate the number of years and explain your experience.
16
Do you have experience with cases filed in Federal Court? If yes, indicate the number of years and explain your experience with Federal Court cases.
17
Do you have experience with cases filed in state court? If yes, indicate the number of years and explain the nature and extent of your experience with state court.
18
Do you have experience with personal injury and wrongful death cases? If yes, indicate the number of years and explain your experience with injury and wrongful death cases.
19
Do you have experience assisting with jury trials? If yes, indicate the number of years and explain your jury trial experience.
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Do you have public records experience? If yes, indicate the number of years and explain public records experience.
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Do you have experience assisting with administrative hearings? If yes, indicate the number or years and explain administrative hearings experience.
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Do you have experience working in a government agency? If yes, describe your experience not mentioned previously in your answers to questions 12-20.
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If you are requesting veterans preference, you MUST download the appropriate state of Florida form (even if you don't live in Florida) and attach it to your application. FAILURE TO DO SO WILL DELAY YOUR VETERANS PREFERENCE STATUS. Please download the forms at http://www.coj.net/departments/employee-services/veterans-preference
Yes, I am claiming veterans preference and I understand that I MUST download the appropriate form and attach it to my application.
No, I am not claiming veterans preference and this does not apply to me.
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A copy of your resume must be attached to your application. Failure to provide the correct documents may result in disqualification from the selection process.
I have read the above statement and understand what is required.
Required Question
Agency
City of Jacksonville
Address
117 W. Duval St. Suite 100 Jacksonville, Florida, 32202
Website
http://www.coj.net/departments/employee-services.aspx
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