Legal Assistant

Job Description

OAG – Consumer Protection | Legal Assistant III | Texas Attorney General

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at the Texas Attorney General, located in an assigned OAG work location within Texas. As the State’s law firm, the Texas Attorney General is a large state agency with over 4,000 employees, dedicated to providing exemplary legal representation across diverse areas of law. The Consumer Protection Division, specifically, works diligently to safeguard Texas consumers and support legitimate businesses by actively investigating fraud and deceptive advertising and filing civil lawsuits. This Legal Assistant III role is crucial in supporting attorneys with comprehensive investigations, litigation, and case management, directly contributing to the OAG’s mission and making a tangible, positive difference in the lives of Texans.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Assigned OAG Work Location in Texas

• Team: Consumer Protection Division, reporting to attorneys
• Mission: Assisting attorneys with investigations, litigation, and case management to protect Texas consumers
• Tech Stack: Excel spreadsheets, electronic document review platforms, computers and applicable software

What You’ll Actually Do
• Case and Records Management: Organize and maintain case files for both investigations and litigation, including opening, closing, and preparing detailed case-related and administrative reports and summaries using tools like Excel spreadsheets.
• Legal Document Preparation: Draft, review, edit, and proofread a wide range of legal documents such as correspondence, memoranda, reports, and various pleadings (e.g., petitions, dispositive and evidentiary motions, briefs), ensuring accuracy for use in trials, appeals, hearings, and administrative proceedings.
• Litigation and Discovery Support: Coordinate the service of subpoenas, civil investigative demands, petitions, and deposition notices; prepare and schedule discovery responses (interrogatories, requests for production, requests for admission); e-file pleadings; maintain case calendars; and assist with all phases of hearing and trial preparation, including organizing trial notebooks and exhibits.
• Legal Research and Analysis: Conduct thorough research and analysis of legal sources like statutes, case law, administrative records, opinions, and regulations, then prepare memoranda of findings and verify the accuracy of citations, quotations, footnotes, and tables of authority.
• Consumer Protection Support & Communication: Obtain, organize, and analyze information, data, and evidence from a variety of sources associated with consumer complaints and investigations, communicate with consumers and representatives of state and federal agencies, and assist with document review on electronic platforms.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Early career professional with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent experience in legal assistance work substituted on a year-for-year basis, coupled with knowledge of legal assistance work and office procedures in a legal setting.
• Experience: One year of full-time experience in legal assistant, legal secretary, or general office experience within a legal environment. A master’s degree program or forty credit hours from an accredited law school may substitute for the required legal assistance experience.
• Skills: Demonstrated knowledge of legal assistance work, office procedures in a legal setting, and familiarity with legal documents. Proficiency in using office equipment and applicable computer software, understanding and processing information, and effective oral and written communication for legal contexts. Ability to conduct legal research, draft, prepare, and interpret legal documents.
• Bonus: Ability to apply to become a Texas Notary.