Paralegal-Dickinson

North Dakota Supreme Court - Fargo, ND

Fargo, ND

Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

About the position

The North Dakota Court System offers employment opportunities that provide a rewarding career in public service working together to deliver justice. The current Dickinson postings for a Staff Attorney-District Court, Paralegal, and Electronic Court Recorder/Transcriptionist are to broaden the applicant pool for one successful candidate to be hired to work within the Southwest Judicial District Court Judge Chambers located in Dickinson. If you are drawn to legal research, analyzing and writing and want to play an integral role in supporting a judge, this opportunity may be right for you.

Responsibilities

• Researches, analyzes, and summarizes case laws, administrative rules, regulations, administrative, and judicial decisions.
• Composes, prepares, and ensures the accuracy of various legal documents.
• Assists judicial officer with trial preparation.
• Serves as primary contact for judicial officer, greets visitors, screens telephone calls and correspondence, provides information, and explains policies and procedures.
• Acts as a liaison between the judicial officer and personnel from other agencies, the general public, and attorneys.
• Coordinates meetings and maintains the calendar for the judicial officer.
• Schedules trials and other court proceedings, unless done by a calendar control clerk.
• Provides secretarial and clerical support to the judicial officer by preparing, transcribing, and proofreading all correspondence, findings, orders, jury instructions, memorandums, or other materials.
• Performs a variety of clerical and administrative tasks including answering phones, maintaining office supplies, maintaining law library, arranging appointments and travel reservations.
• Accurately records court and jury trial proceedings.
• Performs clerking duties in courtroom, administers oaths, marks documents, maintains logs and other forms.
• Performs other duties of a comparable level or type or as assigned.

Requirements

• A high school diploma and seven years of experience.
• Successful completion of a national certifying examination specifically designed for legal assistants/paralegals which includes continuing legal education for maintenance of that certification.
• Bachelor's degree and either one year of experience or 18 semester credit hours of legal assistant/paralegal substantive courses.
• Graduation from an ABA approved legal assistant/paralegal program.
• Valid driver's license or evidence of equivalent mobility.
• Requires AAERT (American Association of Electronic Reporters and Transcribers) CER (certified electronic court reporter) certification or ability to obtain within one year of job entry.

Benefits

• Employer-paid family health insurance premiums
• Retirement contributions
• Generous vacation and sick leave accruals