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Legal Assistant III - Oklahoma City, United States - Oklahoma Human Services

Oklahoma Human Services Oklahoma City, United States

4 weeks ago

This position is located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Legal Assistant III - 0230

Annual Salary: $54, Full State Employee Benefits

Minimum Qualifications

Successful completion of an American Bar Association-approved legal research assistant program and three (3) years of experience as a Legal Assistant:
OR Successful completion of an American Bar Association-approved legal research assistant program and five (5) years of experience as a legal secretary with the major responsibility involving trial preparation, identifying and gathering documents, legal research, and preliminary identification and interviewing of witnesses and similar trial preparation activities;
OR Eight (8) years of experience as a legal secretary (or employment in a law office regardless of title) with the major responsibility involving trial preparation, including document control, deposition summaries, legal research preliminary identification and interviewing of witnesses, and similar trial preparation activities.
OR A bachelor's degree and four (4) years of experience as a legal assistant

Job Responsibilities

To provide legal support services for the DHS Legal Services attorneys in connection with finalizing adoptions for clients who are adopting children in DHS custody.
To provide legal support services to other DHS Legal Services attorneys in the areas of child welfare and adult protective services.
Drafting routine legal pleadings and documents, initiating, organizing, and maintaining case files; communicating with prospective adoptive parents; gathering of information from agency sources; interacting with attorneys, and court personnel; distributing the mail.
Administrative duties include, ordering closing cases and preparing them for archiving.

COMPLEXITY OF SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Knowledge of legal procedures and documents; of the rules relating to civil procedure, pleading, and discovery; of the rules of evidence pertinent to field investigations; of the sources of information used in locating records and persons; of interviewing techniques; of legal report-writing techniques; and of legal terminology.
Skill in conducting legal research; establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with attorneys and witnesses; preparing materials for use in court; and evaluating, summarizing, and reporting results of research.
Ability to use superior communication skills, both oral and written, utilizing different communication styles; to present to diverse audiences, specifically racial, ethnical, socioeconomic, and disabilities.
Ability to consider the impacts of the work and perspectives of multiple communities in technical analysis and outcomes of a decision-making process.

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OKDHS is a Fair Chance Employer. If you have questions, please contact

This is a position in the Oklahoma Civil Service.

Announcement Number: 24-BB094

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