LEGAL SECRETARY 2

Legal Secretary 2

***THIS RECRUITMENT MAY CLOSE WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED. APPLICANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE***

The Hearing and Appeals Division of the Nevada Department of Administration is seeking a Legal Secretary 2 in Las Vegas, serving as the secretary to the Appeals Officer (AO). The role is responsible for managing all calendaring duties, including scheduling reset dates, issuing notices, and coordinating stacked hearings. As the direct liaison for telephone status checks, the Legal Secretary 2 provides timely updates on case statuses and communicates instructions to the AO as needed. The position performs advanced legal clerical duties such as preparing and monitoring all court correspondence, pleadings, motions, orders, resets, stipulations, applications, and decisions requiring the AO's signature. Additional responsibilities include prioritizing and routing files to the appropriate courtroom and updating the AO's daily calendar with any changes. The role also serves as a point of contact for the general public, attorneys, lay representatives, and employer representatives, and handles all necessary clerical and administrative duties. In addition, this position may serve as a backup secretary to support extended absences and assist with staffing future vacancies within the division.

Legal Secretaries perform specialized secretarial duties for attorneys, administrative law judges, and/or hearings/appeals officers including preparing legal documents and correspondence; calendaring; maintaining records; and providing assistance on routine problems and inquiries which are not of a legal nature.

Graduation from high school or equivalent education and three years of clerical experience, two of which were performing progressively responsible legal secretarial work in a training capacity; OR one year of experience as a Legal Secretary I in Nevada State service; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Maintain current knowledge of assigned caseload and status of cases; provide general information to the public, State and local governments, attorneys, court personnel, and various office personnel; act as liaison between professional legal staff, departmental personnel, and the public; determine what information may be provided and which requests must be referred to professional legal staff; refer calls to another office if necessary. Provide clerical support to assigned professional legal staff; receive and screen visitors and telephone calls; respond to inquiries on a variety of matters such as the status of pending cases; open and review incoming mail and determine priority of professional legal staff's attention when routing; mail items according to postal and statutory requirements; maintain a calendar for professional legal staff's appointments, due dates for documents, court appearances, conferences, meetings and other engagements; schedule meetings and training and make travel arrangements. Draft routine correspondence, reports/statistics and other materials requiring specific knowledge of operational methods, policies and procedures for professional staff review; prepare and type requisitions and purchase orders, as required; process requests for payment and travel claims. Format, prepare and type legal documents and correspondence in final format according to jurisdictional requirements, from rough draft, electronic documents, dictaphone, template or notes; proofread and review for proper citation format; prepare and attach exhibits, special sections such as indexes, table of points and authorities, certificates of service, and brief covers. Process and file documents with appropriate courts or quasi-judicial bodies in accordance with the specific procedures of each body, including manner of filing and established timelines; track responses and receipts due upon or after submittals, and dates for other required actions subsequent to submittals. Gather, compile, organize, and prepare relevant material for professional staff to use in legal proceedings; review files and references to obtain information needed by professional legal staff; locate and verify/abstract information from legal files and records; and verify the accuracy of citations and quotations by checking legal sources. Establish and maintain legal and general correspondence filing and cross filing systems as necessary; record case inventory information in order to maintain accurate records and provide for efficient retrieval of information; prepare files for archiving and storage in compliance with established retention schedules. Maintain a library of references including legal publications, law digests, reports, opinions and court decisions. Distribute or assign appropriate clerical work to lower level staff; provide instruction and guidance and review work completed by clerical personnel. Under general supervision, incumbents perform the full range of duties outlined in the series concept at the journey level. Decisions regarding what needs to be done involve evaluation of an issue or issues and may require selecting a course of action from several alternatives. The work involves conditions and elements that must be identified, analyzed, or evaluated to discern interrelationships. Guidelines are available and are applicable to major portions of the work, but leave gaps in specificity. Incumbents use judgment in interpreting and applying guidelines for application to specific cases or problems. Perform related duties as assigned.

Working knowledge of: legal practices and procedures for various courts and judicial districts; legal terminology; clerical requirements for preparing and typing a variety of complex legal documents, forms, and other related materials; procedures for processing and filing documents with courts, boards and/or commissions; proper format for legal citations; legal office procedures. Ability to: work independently and follow through on assignments; interpret and apply complex rules, regulations, policies and procedures to specific problems and issues; receive inquiries and resolve complaints from staff and clientele; establish, organize and maintain complex filing systems including indexed and cross-referenced materials; research information from a variety of departmental and available sources; compile and update information and prepare reports related to specific management activities; transcribe dictation which may be of a complex nature and which requires a comprehensive knowledge of legal procedures and terminology.

Benefits include:

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, life, and disability insurance programs for employees and their dependents/family are offered through the Public Employees' Benefits Program (PEBP).
• Vacation: Accrual of three weeks of annual leave each year.
• Sick Leave: Accrual of three weeks of sick leave each year.
• Holidays: 12 paid holidays per year.
• Retirement: Participation in the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System (PERS). Employees do not contribute to Social Security but will contribute to PERS if their position is at 50% or more full-time equivalency. For more information on how PERS service may impact Social Security benefits, visit the SSA publication (Download PDF reader).
• Deferred Compensation: The State offers a voluntary Deferred Compensation Program.
• No Nevada state income tax.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness: Eligible due to public sector employment.
• Longevity Payments Eligibility: Employees who have received a performance rating of "standard" or better and have completed eight (8) or more years of continuous service are eligible for longevity pay.

Additional benefits may apply to employees covered under a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), depending on their designated bargaining unit. For more information, visit the Labor Relations Unit (LRU).

For more details about your rights and responsibilities as a State of Nevada employee, please review the State of Nevada Employee Handbook (PDF) (Download PDF reader).

*** State Holidays The holiday schedule for State employees is established by the Legislature.

The following are legal holidays:

January 1.............................................. New Year's Day

Third Monday in January.................. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday

Third Monday in February................ Washington's Birthday

Last Monday in May........................... Memorial Day

June 19................................................ Juneteenth Day

July 4.................................................... Independence Day

First Monday in September.............. Labor Day

Last Friday in October....................... Nevada Day

November 11........................................ Veterans' Day

Fourth Thursday in November........ Thanksgiving Day

Friday following the Fourth Thursday in November...................... Family Day

December 25........................................ Christmas Day

When January 1, June 19, July 4, November 11, or December 25 falls on a Saturday, the preceding Friday is the observed legal holiday. If these days fall on Sunday, the following Monday is the observed holiday. Eligibility for holiday pay is covered by the provisions of NAC 284.255

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