What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Assistant position at Pacific Northwest Family Law?
Pacific Northwest Family Law seeks a hard-working individual to join us in our Yakima Washington office as a family law legal assistant.
As a legal assistant, you will be expected to manage attorney calendars; maintain good communication via telephone, text, and email with clients; and prepare documents working under attorney supervision. You will also do things like scan, file, and deliver documents.
You must be organized, able to handle high pressure work-loads, deal well with stress, and handle people who are going through rough times.
Family law sometimes involves people who are at the lowest points in their lives. And that means you as a member of Pacific Northwest Family Law must have control over what your own emotions so that you stay calm for our clients.
Our approach to family law is family focused, helping people rebuild their lives and begin again. We will train the right candidate and will also help those with experience adopt some of our own proceeders and systems.
The successful candidate will have good writing and reading skills, be a self-starter, and quick learner. We prefer those with office experience. And because we hope to serve the Spanish speaking community, the ability to Speak Spanish is huge bonus.
As a part of the application process please submit a short-written essay responding to the essay "A Message to Garcia". If you do not complete this step you will be disqualified from the position.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $19.00 - $22.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Application Question(s):
- Please write a short-written essay responding to the essay "A Message to Garcia"
Education:
- Bachelor's (Preferred)
Language:
- Spanish (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Yakima, WA 98901: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $19 - $22