This class provides paraprofessional legal support to agency and institutional lawyers and others involved in litigation. Performs a variety of analytical, coordinative, and administrative duties in assisting legal staff in investigations, research, and preparation and presentation of material for formal and informal administrative hearings and court cases. This class is distinguished from the office services series by duties and responsibilities related almost exclusively to legal and paralegal services.
Duties require analysis, coordination and organization of a variety of elements.
Work typically includes legal research, case tracking, setting dockets, drafting legal briefs, defining specific legal issues, and preparing legal services and related documents. Drafts or performs research related to the development of policies and procedures in an agency or institution. Interviews and prepares witnesses for hearings or trials, manages a law library, assembles active files and checks for completeness for use at hearings or trials. Prepares exhibits or facsimiles of physical evidence. Performs duties in an administrative law agency, office of legal counsel for an agency or institution, or similar setting to pursue effective handling of litigation, administrative hearings, formal complaints and related legal or quasi-legal procedures and processes.