Description:

Job Duties:
A Government Entity is accepting applications for a full-time judicial law clerk.

This position offers a competitive benefits package, which includes vacation and sick leave, 12 paid holidays, health insurance, retirement, life insurance, deferred compensation, and short- and long-term disability.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
The judicial law clerk provides staff support to the Senior Judges of the Court and the Office of the Chief Staff Attorney. In both roles, the judicial law clerk will conduct independent research and legal analysis for each assigned case and recommend a disposition to the Court; review appellate filings to ensure compliance with all procedural rules and requirements; draft memoranda; and, perform specialized research and writing projects for the Judges or Chief Staff Attorney as necessary.

Minimum Qualifications:
The successful applicant will be an individual interested in a long-term professional opportunity. Qualifications include graduation with high academic standing from an accredited law school; participation in moot court competition or a law school journal or, in the alternative, prior legal writing experience; excellent research and writing skills; thorough familiarity with the Bluebook system of legal citation; and competence with on-line legal research and Microsoft Word.