The Kansas Federal Public Defender is accepting applications for a Clerical/Legal Assistant in the Topeka or Kansas City, Kansas office. The Kansas FPD provides legal representation to indigent clients in federal criminal cases and related matters. The FPD values hard work, diversity, teamwork, creativity, flexibility, and fairness.
The Job: The Clerical/Legal Assistant provides legal support to attorneys and comprehensive office support to all staff members. This position combines general legal assistant duties with responsibility for front desk operations, phone coverage, office supplies and equipment, and mail management. The position requires communicating with clients, court staff, and other agencies (orally and in writing), calendaring, client data entry, requesting records, uploading documents, indexing received documents, and opening and closing files. The successful candidate must be helpful, dependable, kind, and attentive to detail. Residency requirements are here. Spanish language proficiency highly desired but not required.