What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Records Clerk II position at Florence County SC?
Job Description
The Legal Records Clerk II performs a variety of processes which include preparing, processing, and maintaining court orders, legal records, and documents.
Essential Functions:
- Processes, certifies records, and mail/distributes all Court orders signed by Family Court Judges.
- Assists with court processes, performing duties such as appointing mediators and appointing attorneys for specific cases.
- Notifies petitioners and DSS of hearings.
- Processes, maintains, files, and distributes as appropriate all related legal records and documents.
- Maintains case files with accuracy, completeness and confidentiality.
- Performs a variety of clerical duties, to include filing, copying, processing, clocking and certifying documents and creating files.
- Receives, reviews, prepares, and/or submits various documents, including case files, court orders, schedules, petitions, complaints, pleadings, affidavits, warrants, notices, rosters, weekly reports, memos, correspondence.
- Answers a high volume of telephone calls.
- Interacts professionally with attorneys, defendants and the public.
Non-Essential Functions:
- Performs all other related duties as required.
Qualifications: Education and Work Experience
- Requires a high school diploma supplemented by one to two years of clerical/legal experience; or any equivalent combination of experience which provides the required skills, knowledge, and experience.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee will occasionally be required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell.
- Must be able to reach, bend, stoop, carry, move and lift 10 lb. objects regularly.
- Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- The employee must have the ability to travel up to 5%.
Company Description
Vision
Florence County strives to be an exceptional place to live, work, and visit by enhancing the quality of life for our employees and those who call the County home, by encouraging innovation and economic opportunities, and by fostering trust and integrity in the County.
Mission
Florence County will provide high-quality public services, plan for the needs of our citizens, and promote a safe, healthy, and thriving community for all.
Benefits
- South Carolina Retirement System
- Annual Leave
- Sick Leave
- Paid Holidays
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Long-Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- Retiree Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Health Flexible Spending Account
- Dependent Flexible Spending Account
- Onsite Employee Health Clinic
- Onsite Employee Workout Facility
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- South Carolina Deferred Compensation Program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Supplemental Insurance Options
- Discounted rates at local fitness facilities
