Hybrid Legal Assistant II - Temp-to-Hire (Phoenix, AZ)

Kelly Services; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Transit stipend

Holiday pay

Retirement plan

Job summary

Kelly Services seeks a Legal Assistant II in Phoenix, AZ for a hybrid role. You will support Administrative Law Judges at the Department of Economic Security, Appellate Services Administration, handling appeals, preparing hearing materials, and meeting deadlines across programs.

Main duties include verifying appeals, assembling hearing packets, ensuring timely notices, entering case notes, scheduling hearings, and assisting with docket management while maintaining confidential files and data

Qualifications

• Strong computer skills and ability to use multiple programs simultaneously.
• Ability to perform detailed, repetitive work accurately and efficiently while managing competing priorities and deadlines.
• Strong research, critical-thinking, organization, communication, and customer-service skills.
• Ability to analyze complex or conflicting information, work with minimal supervision, and handle sensitive data.
• English proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing.
• Knowledge of Google Apps, including Gmail, Docs, and Sheets, and Adobe Acrobat.

Responsibilities

• Verify incoming appeals, review case documents, determine hearing-request timeliness, and register additional issues as needed.
• Identify and retrieve accurate exhibits; create hearing packets for ALJs and parties.
• Ensure appeals meet federal and state noticing deadlines; identify and correct errors and obtain missing documents.
• Enter case notes and documentation into appropriate repositories and upload legal decisions and dispositions.
• Schedule hearings and assist customers with elevated docket calls.
• Process postponements, withdrawals, and other requests from parties and ALJs.
• Research case issues and elevate appeals to the Board of Appeals when appropriate.
• Maintain confidential paper and electronic files and follow security and confidentiality procedures.

Skills

Computer skills

Attention to deadlines

Research and analytical thinking

Communication skills

Customer service

Tools

Google Apps

Adobe Acrobat

Job description

Kelly Services seeks a Legal Assistant II in Phoenix, AZ for a hybrid role. You will support Administrative Law Judges at the Department of Economic Security, Appellate Services Administration, handling appeals, preparing hearing materials, and meeting deadlines across programs.

Main duties include verifying appeals, assembling hearing packets, ensuring timely notices, entering case notes, scheduling hearings, and assisting with docket management while maintaining confidential files and data