Legal Assistant

Job Description:

Legal Assistant

Description

Pay Range: $55,600 - $60,000 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Thursday, February 20, 2025

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.

A Legal Assistant position is available with the Fort Worth City Attorney’s Office. This office is a team of legal professionals focused on providing consistent excellent legal service and quality customer service to the City of Fort Worth. We strive to be a well-managed office that is proactive and integrated into the day-to-day activities of the City and to be recognized by our peers for exemplary professionalism and ethical behavioral.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associate degree from an accredited college with major course work in Business Administration, Public Administration, Office Administration, or related field.
• Two (2) years of increasingly responsible Legal Assistant experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Litigation.
• Experience with Public Information.
• Experience with Employment Law.

The Legal Assistant job responsibilities include:

• Preparing legal documents and correspondence.
• Drafting answers, discovery responses, briefs, appendices, and other litigation pleadings.
• Drafting letter briefs, correspondence, and redacting documents in response to Public Information Requests.
• Maintaining physical and electronic files.
• Calculating and tracking deadlines.
• Arranging, scheduling, and confirming appointments, meetings, depositions, hearings, and court settings.
• Proof-reading/reviewing contracts, ordinances, resolutions, motions, briefs and other legal documents.
• Copying, scanning, answering telephones, and providing assistance to the general public and city staff.

Working Conditions:

Applicants for this position must pass a Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) fingerprint-based background check and maintain CJIS eligibility. Due to CJIS requirements related to system access, the following will result in being disqualified for this position: Felony Convictions, Felony Deferred Adjudication, Class A Misdemeanor Conviction, Class B Misdemeanor Convictions in the last 10 years, Class A Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication, Class B Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication in the last 10 years, an Open Arrest for Any Criminal Offense (Felony or Misdemeanor), and ALL Family Violence Convictions regardless of class.

Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.

Salary:

$55,600 - $60,000 annual compensation