HIRING LEGAL ASSISTANTS- Full-Time And Part-Time
Join Our Experienced Winning Team
PLEASE ONLY APPLY AFTER REVIEWING THIS ENTIRE JOB POSTING
Part-time Secretary (30-35 hours weekly)- Bring your career to the next levelJoin our great team, where you will be trained by our experienced top-notch part time assistant and our great outgoing highly-accomplished full-time assistant, who is transitioning to remote work with another organization as her military family gets reassigned.
This is a great and rare opportunity with a top-rated Fairfax criminal defense and DUI defense law firm. Why great? You will do meaningful and stimulating work for people's civil liberties as a valued team member, trained for success for days that go fast with never a dull moment. Why rare? Highly-rated criminal defense lawyer Jon Katz is among the small number of Northern Virginia criminal defense lawyers who has learned and applies the methods of the unparalleled National Criminal Defense College's Trial Practice Institute and Trial Lawyers College, and has been trained by one of the nation's top trainers of field sobriety testing to police for DUI cases.
What do we seek in a successful candidate? If the above resonates with you, read on. The successful candidate will align with our core values, will value working as a team in pursuing our clients' best defense, and will ascribe to the importance of good and professional communication, good organization, loyalty to our clients and firm, and productivity and promptness with work (COLPP).
Be part of that sense of accomplishment that starts with helping lift the burden from clients' shoulders, often running to great results in court. The work here is meaningful, rewarding, and life changing to so many of our clients.
If you have what it takes to be a successful legal assistant, let us hear from you. Not just with a resume sent with one mouseclick, but with a targeted cover letter that tells us what resonates for you about this job, and some of the great contributions you can make in this position.
Your Work Will Make A Positive Impact On Our Clients' Lives. You Will Learn Indispensable Persuasion Skills
Our decades of success is grounded in providing clients with great service and a great experience, and persuading on the path of obtaining the best possible outcome for our clients.
This Is Fast-Paced Work, Like Saving Lives In A Hospital Emergency Room
The great results we get in court stem from smart and hard work. We seek driven applicants with warm hearts, street smarts, and a strong work ethic.
You will have great opportunities to interact with our clients, court personnel and many others.
We Seek People With College Experience Or The Equivalent, You Will Be Well Trained.
For this position, we seek candidates with college experience or the equivalent. We will train you well. We seek applicants who will succeed and thrive in the short term and long term.
More About This Job
Key duties of this career opportunity include:
Prepare court documents and correspondence, organize client files, handle filings at nearby and other courthouses, handle incoming and outgoing phone calls, schedule appointments, calendar court dates, handle incoming and outgoing mail, handle payments and bank deposits, keep our reception area organized, and order supplies.
Assist with such marketing as recording podcasts and videos of Jon Katz, maintaining a newsletter database, and sending out informational material.
Handle fast-paced, dynamic work, giving full attention to detail and each project objective. The day goes fast.
Work withing our regular 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. workday running Monday through Friday .
Have a good phone manner.
Touch type with a minimum 30 words per minute.
MS Word, G-Suite/G-Mail, Google Calendar, Google Voice text messaging, Dropbox, Docusign, and online court docketing review.
Be trained on and use Westlaw legal research software.
Have a car to drive to nearby courthouses when needed.
What pay, benefits and rewards do our employees get?
We pay and train to retain. We include paid vacation time and paid federal holidays.
Onsite parking is free. Our office across the street from the Fairfax courthouse is spacious, beautiful and comfortable.
You will have substantial and meaningful contact with clients, witnesses, opposing counsel, and courthouse staff. Our clients are good, presumed-innocent people who often are charged with crimes for the first and only times in their lives, and we help them obtain as much victory as possible and to get on with their lives.
Are You Ready To Jump-Start Your Career?
ONLY SEEKING APPLICATION WITH A COVER LETTER THAT ANSWERS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
Please only apply for this position if you meet our above-listed qualifications, and if this job speaks to you, your drive, and your ability.
Please email us (in pdf format) your targeted cover letter and one-page resume to [email protected]. Please include a targeted cover letter or email message that tells us more about you than your resume relates, to include your answers to the following questions:
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What inspired you to apply for this job?
What is your ideal weekly work schedule and ideal number of weekly hours worked?
Please let us call you before you call us. Employment agencies are asked to refrain from contacting us; we wish to directly hear from candidates.
AGAIN, PLEASE ASSURE YOUR APPLICATION INCLUDES A RESUME, AND A COVER LETTER THAT ANSWERS THE ABOVE QUESTIONS
We are fully devoted to Equal Employment Opportunity.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to apply.