DA CLERK

Position Summary

The District Attorney Clerk is responsible for intake, initial review, discovery, and coordination of tasks and deliverables in response to legal inquiries, and is accountable for timely, accurate and complete responses, within required deadlines. The Legal Clerk must be professional, well organized, and maintain a high level of confidentiality, while frequently working under short deadlines. The ideal candidate for this position should be one who is flexible with work assignments and thrives in a fast-paced environment. This position requires expert-level written and verbal communication skills, strong decision-making ability, time management skills, computer skills, and attention to detail.

Essential Functions

• Assist the public in person, by phone or email; provide information to the public, and federal, state and county agencies regarding status of legal cases; work proactively to ensure that assistance is accurate, responsive, timely and respectful
• Serve as a liaison between prosecutors, public defenders, attorneys, Judges, witnesses, victims, and law enforcement agencies, and other County departments; and respond to and/or resolves inquiries, problems, issues and exceptions
• Obtain certified copies of scientific tests, state records and court documents needed for Prosecutor file
• Research court databases to determine status of adult and juvenile prosecutions
• Initiate contact with outside agencies to gather evidence and additional material to comply with discovery requirements
• Regular attendance and timeliness are required

Minimum Requirements

EDUCATION:
Required:

• High school diploma or GED

• 2 years of clerical experience
• Must be loyal and able to keep the confidences of the office as required by law
• Knowledge Federal, State and local codes, laws, rules and regulations pertaining to the functions of a District Attorney's Office
• General knowledge of basic hardware and software and uses of a variety of different computer operating systems such as Microsoft Office Work, Excel, Outlook
• Exceptional skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with County staff, attorneys, investigators, police agencies, and citizens
• Proficient verbal and written skills to communicate information and directions to courts, attorneys, investigators, police agencies, and citizens

• Bilingual proficiency in Spanish

Supplemental Information

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS: While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is constantly required to work under time pressures to meet deadlines; the employee must frequently change tasks, perform multiple tasks simultaneously, and work closely with others as part of a team. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

PHYSICAL DEMAND REQUIREMENTS: Some light lifting, bending, standing, walking (trial presentations/on-scene investigations) and prolonged sitting. Vision (ability to read police reports, law book, and normal printed material), understandable coherent speech and hearing.

HOURS / SPECIAL CONDITIONS: Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

McLennan County will conduct background checks on new hires that will include a criminal background check related to convictions and deferred adjudications in the past seven years and may include credit reports, motor vehicle records, employment records, and educational attainment. A conviction or deferred adjudication is not an automatic bar to employment. Each case is considered individually.