Legal Secretary - Bilingual Spanish - Full-time

About Disability Rights Texas

Disability Rights Texas is the federally designated legal protection and advocacy agency (P&A) for people with disabilities in Texas. Our mission is to help people with disabilities understand and exercise their rights under the law, ensuring their full and equal participation in society.  

Job Summary

This position provides advanced legal, administrative and secretarial support to assigned attorneys and other staff by producing accurate and timely legal and administrative work through a smooth running, well organized infrastructure.  

Responsibilities and Duties

• Preparing legal documents and correspondence including pleading, briefs, opinions, complaints, administrative decisions, orders, and subpoenas
• Review and edit documents for proper formatting and content as required by the court
• Prepare trial notebooks, exhibits, and materials for appearances and hearings
• File documents, schedule hearings and docket cases
• Composed routine correspondence, run and analyze reports,  maintain calendars and court dockets
• Assist with research and provide information and technical assistance to others
• Coordinate meeting arrangements

Qualifications and Skills

• Bilingual in Spanish
• High School Diploma or GED plus three years of full time experience as a legal secretary
• Strong and effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to do so in a concise manner regarding complex issues
• Excellent detail-orientation, follow-up, multi-tasking and organizational skills
• Willingness to take direction and independently follow through on instructions timely.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal relationship skills.
• Advanced computer / technology literacy (specifically on Microsoft Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint) and demonstrated experience electronic case records management .
• High commitment to service excellence while maintaining high degree of integrity, ethics and judgement.

Benefits and Perks

• Paid insurance: health, dental, life, long term care, long term disability.
• Vision discount plan
• Tax-free spending and savings accounts for healthcare related and dependent day care expenses
• Tons of paid time off: 12+ days of accrued paid vacation per year, at hire, increasing with tenure; 12+ days of accrued paid sick time per year, at hire; 2+ days of paid personal time per year, at hire; 15 paid holidays per year, including the the period of December 24 - January 1; up to 6 weeks of paid parental leave for the birth, adoption or foster care placement of a child and up to 4 weeks of paid bereavement leave for the death of certain family members
• 401(k) retirement account including a contribution made by DRTx, regardless of what an employee does or does not contribute pre-tax or roth
• Flexible schedules, compressed work weeks, and opportunities to work via telecommuting are available for certain positions
• Certain employees may be eligible for student loan repayment assistance and forgiveness programs