Legal Secretary I/II

**State Bar Court** Annual Salary Range for Legal Secretary I: $66,409 \- $88,541 Annual Salary Range for Legal Secretary II: $73,046 \- $97,399 FLSA Non\-Exempt / Union Represented This position allows for up to 4 days of remote work per week **About the Office** The State Bar Court (SBC) adjudicates disciplinary and regulatory cases involving attorneys and recommends attorney discipline to the California Supreme Court. The SBC is structured as a Hearing Department (trial court) and a Review Department (appeals court). California is the only state with an independent professional Court dedicated to ruling on attorney discipline cases. **The Ideal Candidate** The State Bar Court seeks a Legal Secretary I/II to provide administrative support to the State Bar Court Judges, Clerk of the Court, Court Counsel, and attorneys. Primary responsibilities include distributing and tracking attorney assignments, proofreading decisions, maintaining supply inventories, preparing expense reports and p\-card statements, and making travel arrangements. Must communicate clearly and effectively, be a team player, have strong organizational skills, and have the ability to prioritize work. Experience in Word and Excel preferred. **Legal Secretary I** **Definition** Under general supervision, a Legal Secretary performs a range of highly confidential secretarial and specialized office support duties related to the specific work and function of the office or unit to which this position is assigned and relieves other staff members of clerical duties and other office procedures. **Distinguishing Characteristics** This entry\-level classification provides legal secretarial duties to assigned attorneys or judicial staff. It is distinguished from higher\-level classes by its limited experience, the absence of lead responsibilities, and/or the handling of more complex documents. **Examples of Essential Duties** Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following: * Provides routine or standardized legal support through secretarial assignments to ensure effective, timely, and accurate assistance for the assigned legal team. * Types and assembles, in final form, legal pleadings for filing in all state, federal, or State Bar courts, including proofreading and editing documents for accuracy, entering data into a database, and ensuring that litigation deadlines are met. * Checks legal citations, oversees the production of legal documents, and distributes documents to the appropriate court and in\-house personnel. * Types, proofreads, and/or assembles other legal documents, including but not limited to pleadings, contracts, subpoenas, legal memoranda, letters, proposals, and/or other documents unique to the department, office, or unit to which assigned. * Produces a variety of correspondence, reports, memoranda, and other documents. * Extracts data from a database(s); and filters, sorts, counts, and completes other essential spreadsheet functions. * As