Legal Staff Paralegal in Honolulu, HI

Government

Honolulu, HI

Legal Staff Paralegal in Honolulu, HI

Legal Staff

No

Job Title: Legal Clerk - Entry Level to Full Performance

Job Responsibilities:
Legal Clerk I:
- Perform routine clerical work including preparing, typing, maintaining, and processing legal forms, documents, and materials.
- Assist with more difficult tasks under closer supervision for training purposes.
- Perform other duties as required.

Legal Clerk II:
- Perform a wide variety of legal clerical work in support of attorneys, involving the preparation, processing, and filing of moderately difficult legal clerical work.
- Carry out more difficult tasks under supervision and guidance on a progressively responsible basis.

Legal Clerk:
- Independently perform a wide variety of legal clerical work in support of attorneys.
- Prepare, process, and file a variety of complex legal and court documents with courts or quasi-judicial bodies.
- Prepare a successive variety of documents for each case which require a variety of specialized procedures for preparation, processing, and filing.
- Prioritize assignments to complete preparation and processing of legal and court documents for various cases within frequent time constraints and established deadlines.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.

Education and Experience Information:
Legal Clerk I:
- Experience: Applicants must have a combination of education and experience substantially equivalent to one year of progressively responsible clerical work experience which involved preparing, typing, processing, and filing legal documents, or receiving and examining complex business documents to determine compliance with statutory or contractual requirements.

Legal Clerk II:
- Experience: Applicants must have a combination of education and experience substantially equivalent to one and one-half years of progressively responsible legal clerical work experience which involved preparing, typing, processing, and filing legal documents and demonstrated the prerequisite knowledge and abilities.

Legal Clerk:
- Specialized Experience: Two years of progressively responsible legal clerical work experience involving preparing, typing, processing, and filing legal documents and demonstrated the prerequisite knowledge and abilities.

Additional Requirements:
- Legal Authorization to Work: The State of Hawaii requires all persons seeking employment with the government to be citizens, nationals, or permanent resident aliens of the United States, or eligible under federal law for unrestricted employment in the United States.
- Ability to type accurately at the rate of 40 net words per minute using a computer, word processing, and/or other software applications.

Salary Information:
- Legal Clerk I: $3,354 to $4,240 per month (SR-10, Step C to I)
- Legal Clerk II: $3,621 to $4,582 per month (SR-12, Step C to I)
- Legal Clerk: $3,917 to $4,959 per month (SR-14, Step C to I)
- Note: Hiring rates will be based on the availability of funds, the applicant's qualifications, and other relevant factors.

Other Information:
- The State of Hawai'i complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
- The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program is available for individuals working in public service, which may forgive the balance of federal student loans after 120 qualifying payments.
- The Department of Human Resources Development (HRD) will use electronic mail to notify applicants of important information relating to the status and processing of their applications.
- Testing Information: The examination for this recruitment will be conducted on an unassembled basis where the examination score is based on an evaluation and rating of your education and experience. In-person interviews and/or further testing in Hawaii may be required at the discretion of the hiring agency. Applicants who meet the minimum qualification requirements and are referred to the vacancy must be available to participate in person and at their own expense in this required phase of the selection process.