LSA I - Riverside

The Riverside County Public Defender's Office is seeking to fill a Legal Support Assistant I vacancy to support the Riverside office.

The incumbent will perform a wide variety of specialized and responsible clerical work involving the continual use of legal terminology and procedures; assist in processing and tracking a variety of legal documents, records, and correspondence; perform the required specialized legal clerical work in support of legal staff within County offices; perform other related duties as required.

Seeking candidates will customer service, front desk experience, and the ability to type at least 50 words per minute.

Candidates with previous work experience in a law office are preferred.

Additionally, Bilingual-Spanish is preferred, but not required.

The Legal Support Assistant I is the entry-level classification in the Legal Support Assistant series and provides clerical support to attorneys and/or other County staff within the Office of the District Attorney, Department of Child Support Services, Public Defender, Riverside University Health System-Behavioral Health, or Department of Public Social Services.

Incumbents are assigned to either perform a moderate range of specialized legal clerical work or, in a training capacity, learn to perform a wide variety of specialized legal clerical work characteristic of the Legal Support Assistant II.

The Legal Support Assistant I is distinguished from the Legal Support Assistant II by the latter's ability to understand and apply a more extensive range of legal procedures related to the processing of legal documents.

Depending on assignment, incumbents may be expected to promote to the journey-level Legal Support Assistant II classification after acquiring the necessary experience and training and demonstrating satisfactory job performance.

Meet the Team!

The Riverside County Probation Department is a progressive criminal justice agency that believes in continuous improvement, searching and applying evidence-based and best practices, using measurable outcomes to evaluate programs, and doing our utmost to fulfill our mission and make Riverside County a safe and law-abiding community for its citizens.

We recognize the value of a qualified, professional, dynamic, and diverse workforce and in building an organization that reflects the progressive community we serve.• Serve as clerical support to attorneys and other County staff; schedule appointments, screen callers, and initiate reply to routine correspondence.

• Maintain files of correspondence and legal documents including a cross-reference index file; file legal papers with the proper courts; enter record of hearings, record pleas, trials, convictions, acquittals, sentences, judgments, orders, and other dispositions of cases.

• Complete documents for case files by extracting complete and accurate information from a variety of sources, obtaining necessary signatures and attaching required addenda; review and verify file doc...