Calendar Clerk

Chartwell Law; Red Bank (NJ); On-site; USD 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Chartwell Law in Red Bank, NJ is seeking a detail-oriented Calendar Clerk to maintain accurate court calendars and deadlines, ensuring compliance with court rules. You will docket conferences, motions, trials, and orders, and coordinate depositions with court reporters or translators.

Responsibilities include updating calendars, scheduling depositions, and handling inquiries about calendar events and court rules.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of state and federal court rules is required.
• Experience with calendar and docketing of conferences, motions, trials, and deadlines is required.
• Experience confirming and rescheduling depositions, including ordering court reporters and translators.

Responsibilities

• Answer inquiries related to calendar events.
• Answer inquiries related to court rules.
• Review, update, and maintain calendars for court dates, deadlines, and depositions.
• Docket conferences, court orders, motions, trials, and deadline dates into the database.
• Confirm and reschedule depositions, including ordering court reporters and translators.

Skills

Planning & Priority Setting

Professionalism

Conflict Management

Clear Communication

Tools

PACER

eCourts

e‑filing

Job description

Overview

The Calendar Clerk is responsible for maintaining accurate and up-to-date court calendars, deadlines, and deposition schedules, ensuring compliance with state and federal court rules. This role involves docketing conferences, motions, trials, and orders, as well as coordinating depositions by confirming details and arranging court reporters or translators.

Job Type

Full-time

Primary Job Duties

• Answer inquiries related to calendar events
• Answer inquiries related to court rules
• Review, update, and maintain calendars for court dates, deadlines, and depositions
• Docket conferences, court orders, motions, trials, and deadline dates into the database
• Confirm and reschedule depositions, including ordering court reporters and translators

Key Competencies

• Communicating – Provide information to others in a concise, direct, and unambiguous way so they clearly understand the specifics and function of the message.
• Conflict Management – Address problems openly and objectively, bringing significant conflicts and disagreements into the open with the intention to resolve them in an unemotional and constructive manner.
• Professionalism – Set high standards and serve as a role model for work performance, ethical conduct, and respect, consistently acting in accordance with generally accepted moral principles and the profession's best practices.
• Planning & Priority Setting – Identify priorities and develop detailed action plans that include objectives, accountabilities, time frames, standards, review stages, and contingencies.

Other Duties

This job description is not designed to cover all duties; duties may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements

• Knowledge and understanding of state court rules and orders
• Experience with calendar and docketing of conferences, motions, trials, and deadline dates
• Experience confirming and rescheduling depositions, including ordering court reporters and translators
• Highly familiar with E-law, PACER, and eCourts
• Highly familiar with e‑filing in both state and federal courts, understanding legal terminology specific to the practice
• 3 years of experience as a calendar clerk preferred

Salary

$55,000 - $60,000