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Job Description
Job Description
Bilingual Spanish Legal Assistant
Come join our team! Rosasco Law Group APC is a boutique law firm in Rocklin specializing in employment law. We are seeking a full-time Bilingual Legal Assistant. Must have 2 years or more of legal assistant experience in litigation.
Qualified candidates must be highly organized, and detail-oriented, have excellent writing skills, work efficiently, be able to work independently while also being a team player, have a positive attitude, and be familiar with legal documents, calendaring, and filing in federal and state court. Qualified candidates would need to work in the office during normal business hours. This is not a remote working position. Some training is available.
Qualified candidates must speak, read, and write fluently in Spanish. The job will include translating documents, witness statements, and handbooks. If you are selected for an interview, you will be given a written Spanish test.
Some paralegal work will be assigned if the candidate has a certificate.
Essential skills :
- Manage attorneys daily / weekly calendars and limitations. Maintain calendar of meetings, court appearances, depositions, arbitrations, mediations and apprising attorney of responsibilities in advance of commitment. Coordinate conferences, meetings and appointments for attorneys, paralegals and clients including conference room scheduling, meals and preparation of materials as needed.
- Ensure timely and accurate completion of the preparation of court documents, correspondence, and memoranda. Review, edit and finalize documents and ensure timely service on all parties and filing with the court.
- Create shell pleadings based on court rules for attorneys.
- Review incoming mail and emails for calendaring, court hearings, depositions, arbitrations, mediations, and meetings. Responsible for maintaining knowledge of court rules, fee schedules, and filing dates for both State and Federal courts. Responsible for reviewing and ensuring proper calendaring of limitations based off of incoming / outgoing documents and correspondence.
- Proofread finalized documents, correspondence, and memoranda to ensure accuracy of copy, grammar, punctuation, and syntax before processing.
- Receive, professionally screen, and transmit telephone calls and messages to attorneys, paralegals, clients, and staff.
- Handle incoming and outgoing mail and emails.
- Process all new incoming matters to open new files. Create initial electronic file including initial shell pleadings, save incoming materials, check court docket for missing documents, and ensure limitations are calendared correctly.
- Maintain digital files of all case materials. Filing of pleadings and correspondence in chronological order in appropriate files.
- Greet clients, guests, and vendors who come into the office.
We are not seeking law students or those waiting to pass the bar. This is a long-term legal assistant / paralegal position.
Qualified candidates should send their resumes with a cover letter. Your cover letter should address your proficiency in Spanish.
Benefits (most benefits depend on hours worked) :
Compensation : 23 - $38 hourly
Responsibilities :
Qualifications :
About Company
Rosasco Law Group APC is a boutique defense law firm in Rocklin, California. We practice labor & employment law on behalf of employers with a particular emphasis on the agricultural industry. We handle class actions, PAGA cases, wage and hour matters, administrative cases, and cases involving discrimination, retaliation, and harassment. We are conveniently located off Highway 65 & Blue Oaks Blvd.
Salary : $23 - $38
