Pay Range: $51,308 - $60,000 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on: Thursday, March 20, 2025 📅
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find out 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 – Transactional position is available with the Fort Worth City Attorney’s Office. This office is a team of legal professionals focused on providing consistently 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, preferably in a local government environment
- Must pass CJIS fingerprint background screening
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of the Texas Public Information Act and experience processing public information requests
The Legal Assistant – Transactional job responsibilities include:
- Manages attorney calendar and schedules. Calculates and monitors deadlines and reminds attorneys of impending events.
- Organizes, maintains, tracks and controls digital and traditional legal files. Receives and reviews initial file assignments. Assembles, creates and organizes physical and electronic files of all records.
- Provides administrative and procedural support to attorneys. Prepares legal documents and correspondence, which includes drafting motions, discovery, orders, briefs, notices and agreements under the direction of an attorney. Receives and reviews invoices for payment.
- Arranges, schedules and confirms appointments, meetings, court settings and deposition settings and notifies parties involved.
- Prepares briefs relating to Texas Public Information Act requests for submission to the Texas Attorney General and electronically files briefs to the Attorney General.
- Copying, scanning, answering telephones, and providing assistance to the general public and city staff.
- Performs other related duties as required.
- Adheres to assigned work schedule as outlined in the Department and City attendance policies and procedures; ensures all behaviors comply with the Ctiy’s Personnel Rules and Regulations.
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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.
