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About the Role

Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) seeks a detail-oriented, punctual, self-driven Legal Assistant for its Austin office. This role is crucial for supporting legal services to low-income residents and farm workers across Texas and surrounding states.

Responsibilities

• Type, file, and handle all clerical office matters for assigned casehandlers.
• Maintain client files and applications, completing assigned work within required timeframes.
• Make copies of documents as requested.
• Create files for all new cases.
• Notarize documents.
• Maintain the office law library.
• Communicate with clients and other lawyers as requested.
• Coordinate schedules and maintain case requirements calendars for casehandlers.
• Prepare standard pleadings for attorney review.
• Set hearings, depositions, and other appointments.
• Compose routine correspondence.
• Obtain information from databases and check for conflicts of interest.
• Make appropriate disposition of applications as instructed by an attorney.
• Answer office telephones and take messages.
• Handle incoming and outgoing mail, ensuring timely distribution and mailing.
• Assist with overflow work to ensure smooth office operations.
• Maintain office equipment, including replenishing supplies and responding to breakdowns.
• Maintain office supply inventory and requisition necessary items.
• Maintain trust accounts according to standard accounting procedures.
• Orient new employees on office procedures and brief staff on policy changes.
• Coordinate staff leave and travel arrangements.
• Translate.
• Perform other secretarial duties as requested by the immediate supervisor.

Requirements

• Type a minimum of 45 words per minute.
• Experience with word processing.
• Minimum of two years of secretarial experience.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish.

Skills

• Detail-oriented
• Punctual
• Self-driven
• Able to work on multiple assignments at once
• Responsive to the legal needs of low-income persons
• Word processing
• Secretarial experience
• Bilingual (English/Spanish)

Location

• Austin, TX

Work Type

• Full-time
• Onsite

Experience Level

• Minimum of two years secretarial experience

Education Level

• High school degree or equivalent

Salary/Compensations

• $41,765.00 - $53,269.06

About the Company

• Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) provides free civil legal services to residents in 68 Southwest Texas counties and represents migrant and seasonal farm workers throughout the state and in six other southern states.
• TRLA serves about 23,000 clients each year.
• More than 2.6 million residents of Southwest Texas are considered eligible for TRLA services, a ratio of almost 21,000 potential clients per legal aid lawyer.
• Thousands of low-income Texans still lack access to civil legal representation.