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State of Alaska · 18 hours ago

Paralegal 3

Kenai, AK

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$33/hr - $33/hr

The State of Alaska is seeking a Paralegal 3 to provide essential paralegal support to attorneys in the Kenai office. This role involves supervising support staff, assisting attorneys with case management, and ensuring conflict-free representation for clients.

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No H1B

Responsibilities

Provides paralegal support to attorneys in the Agency’s Kenai office

Supervises the support staff in that office (one paralegal and two law office assistants)

Assisting attorneys in organizing and managing cases

Providing direct client assistance

Utilizing the internal case management system to draft letters and pleadings

Completing conflict of interest analysis to ensure that Agency representation of individual clients is and remains conflict-free

Making recommendations to withdraw from representation where they determine a conflict of interest exists

Providing advanced legal analysis and managing the success of the team

Qualification

LawsLegal analysisCase managementTechnical competenceLeadershipClient assistanceReasoning

Required

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in: Law: Knowledge of State and federal laws, including legal and court procedures, regulations, guidelines, precedents, admissibility of evidence, case preparation, and/or settlements for applicable areas of law practiced or supported

Leadership: Influences, motivates, and challenges others; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations

Legal, Government, and Jurisprudence: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, legal practices and documents, Government regulations, Executive orders, agency rules, Government organization and functions, and the democratic political process

Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions

Technical Competence: Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one's job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues

Equivalent to those typically gained by: Post-secondary and/or vocational education in a legal, paralegal, criminal justice, or similar legal support area and/or progressively responsible experience providing a variety of paraprofessional legal support in either the legal, law enforcement, or social service field

Positions may require incumbents to be able to obtain a Notary Public upon hire, and to be able to pass a criminal background check to meet security requirements for using criminal record networks such as Alaska Public Safety Information Network (APSIN) and National Crime Enforcement Information Center/National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (NCIC/NLETS)

Some positions are required to work regular overtime during the standard workweek, on weekends, and/or holidays to provide support to the assigned duty attorney

At time of interview, please be prepared to provide: College transcripts (if using education to meet the minimum qualifications), Three professional references, two who have had supervisory experience over you, including current email and/or daytime phone number

Due to the nature of the work of the Public Defender Agency and access to ACOMS at the workplace, the individual who is selected for this position may be required to pass a background investigation and may be re-fingerprinted. Full disclosure of ALL past criminal convictions (both misdemeanor and felony including suspended impositions of sentence) at the time of application is required. Convictions may lead to disqualification due to the requirements necessary to access these systems

If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university

If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer's name, your job title, dates of employment, and whether full-or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and minimum qualifications are clearly met