OAG - Bankruptcy & Collections | Legal Assistant V | 26-0449

Requirements

• Maintains an inventory of bankruptcy cases for client agencies
• Maintains calendar, docket, opens and close cases, and monitors bankruptcy plan payments on a case management system
• Maintains case management database for statistical reporting and other information.
• Monitors bankrupt entities compliance with state tax requirements on a client mainframe
• Drafts, prepares, and reviews routine to complex pleadings and other legal documents
• Files (electronically) and serves pleadings in accordance with all applicable statutes and rules.
• Reviews mail and screens calls for attorneys on cases in Legal Assistant’s inventory
• Communicates by phone, email or letter with client agencies, court personnel, trustee personnel, outside attorneys, and other individuals
• Prepares and responds to correspondence, memoranda, reports and other documents
• Researches legal sources using computer-assisted research, and prepares memoranda on research findings
• Assists with all phases of trial/hearing preparation, including scheduling (hearings, depositions, meetings), coordinating discovery requests with client agencies
• Assists with coordinating, organizing assembling, and preparing evidence, exhibits, affidavits, and other documents for use in legal proceedings (hearings, trials, depositions, docket calls)
• Participates in one-on-one, team, division, client, and OAG meetings
• Complies with all time-reporting and accounting policies and procedures
• Maintains relevant knowledge necessary to perform essential job functions
• Attends work regularly in compliance with agreed-upon work schedule
• Ensures security and confidentiality of sensitive and/or protected information
• Complies with all agency policies and procedures, including those pertaining to ethics and integrity
• May provide training and technical guidance to less tenured staff
• Performs related work as assigned

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Health insurance