Legal Assistant II – Hybrid | 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

Legal Assistant II – Hybrid | Phoenix, AZ

PR: $18.66 /Hr. – Temp-to-Hire

Shift : 8-5; M-F. Mainly virtual, requires in-person attendance 4 Days per Month

Only Local Candidates - Resumes must specify the current location

About the Job

Support Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) at the Department of Economic Security’s Appellate Services Administration (ASA). Help process appeals, prepare hearing materials, and meet legally mandated deadlines across programs involving benefit eligibility and overpayments, provider licensing and certification, and claimant fraud.

Key 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.

Required 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Legal experience.
• Familiarity with Arizona Public Assistance and Unemployment Insurance laws, practices, and procedures; the Administrative Procedures Act; and case-management systems such as APS, Clear2There, Guide mainframe, HEAplus, AZTECS, and CACTUS Portal.

Why Apply?

• Competitive pay & excellent Southern Arizona benefits
• Temp-to-hire with stable, growth-oriented agency

Benefits

• Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability.
• As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account.
• In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce.

Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center.

Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment.

Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Kelly Services is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We welcome, value, and embrace diversity at all levels and are committed to building a team that is inclusive of a variety of backgrounds, communities, perspectives, and abilities. At Kelly, we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better services we can provide. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to Kelly’s Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment.