Legal Support Specialist

Legal Support Specialist

Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid. 

Responsibilities:

The legal support specialist position combines the skills of a legal assistant and legal secretary. The person will perform both administrative and litigation duties as requested by the assigned attorneys. Legal Assistant duties will include serving as a point of contact for case team attorneys; responsibility for coordinating litigation support, ranging from assisting with the drafting of discovery requests and discovery responses and other discover-related tasks, and reviewing, analyzing, and assigning coding/bate stamping schemes to documents and/or exhibits and efiling. Secretarial duties will include generating documents utilizing word processing, spreadsheet, and database software; litigation software, organization and maintenance of files and case calendars; and client communications. He or she will also provide back-up to others on the support staff team.

Salary/Benefits:

Hourly position. The starting full-time salary is $31,080 to $36,288 depends on experience. Benefits include family health insurance, life insurance, vacation, sick leave, and short-term and long-term disability insurance.