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Olds & Stephens, P.A.
Victoria L. Olds, Esq., Senior Partner
312-11th Street
West Palm Beach, Florida 33401
Email: volds@oslegal.com
Send application materials to: Victoria L. Olds, Esq.
Recruiting for office(s) in: West Palm Beach
Type of organization: Law Firm
Job Title: LAW CLERK
LAW CLERK:
Under general supervision, performs independent legal research and analysis, including drafting orders and memoranda and providing legal recommendations; provides clerical and office administrative assistance for attorneys; performs related work as assigned.
CLASS CHARACTERISTICS:
– In this single-level classification, incumbents perform a limited scope of legal duties including drafting memoranda, conducting research and analysis, and providing legal recommendations.
– Incumbents regularly provide clerical and office administrative assistance for attorneys.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES (illustrative only):
– Reviews, evaluates, and analyzes briefs, petitions, motions, and other pertinent documents filed in a particular case in order to determine legal issues, scope and complexity of issues raised, and factual accuracy.
– Conducts independent legal research for relevant cases, statutes, court rules, secondary sources not cited by parties, issues raised by writ petitions, legislative history and intent of particular statutes.
– Reads and applies cases, statutes, constitutional provisions, and rules of court cited by parties.
– Prepares written statements of facts pursuant to rules of appellate review.
– Drafts and edits court orders, conference memoranda, requests for supplemental briefing, and correspondence.
– Makes recommendations to the attorneys regarding appropriate dispositions.
– Works closely with attorneys to gather documentation and supporting information; generates indexes.
– Verifies and shepardizes legal authorities cited; uses citator services to verify precedential value of citations.
– Provides office administrative and clerical assistance to attorneys,
including processing legal documents, obtaining signatures from appropriate staff, calendaring case deadlines, scheduling meetings, filing, and data entry.
– Organizes, routes, coordinates and tracks assigned work to ensure completion; works closely with Clerk’s Office and file room staff to ensure that materials are timely received and sent out; distributes, tracks, closes out and archives files and completed work.
– Maintains case files and database information; compiles statistics based on case information gathered and tabulated; maintains integrity of legally relevant original documents.
– May assist with special legal, clerical or administrative projects.
Time period of employment: full time, ongoing, part time, ongoing, summer full time, summer part time, school year part time
- Deadline to apply: 30 September 2024
- Anticipated start date:
- Response method(s): Email
- Materials requested: Résumé, Cover letter