Legal Clerk I/II/III

The County of San Luis Obispo is offering opportunities to join our APWA accredited Department of Public Works. The department is a professional team of 300 dedicated staff who serve the residents and visitors of the Central Coast. The Legal Clerk position plays a key role in supporting a wide range of responsibilities and is an important part of our department’s overall success. 

The Legal Clerk covers a broad range of service (see below).

• Research, tracking and processing claims
• Filing, composing and processing legal documents, complaints, briefs and restitution claims
• Proofreading, editing, and checking for grammatical errors on large documents, legal documents, contacts and agreements
• Acting as a coordinator and liaison between counsel, staff and department representatives
• Processing a variety of document requests such as correspondence, agendas, revising policies and procedures, and updating annual documents by proofreading/correcting/ formatting/editing
• Processing legal notices and providing postings to meet Brown Act requirements for Advisory Groups and Committees

• Redacting documents for Public Record Requests and coordinating claims

• Reviewing documents to ensure compliance with the County policies, including the Identity Standards Policy 
• Processing news releases posting on the web and social media
• Entering and editing Board items in County software (Agenda.Net)

Key Qualifications

Research – strong research and investigative skills, with the ability to locate, compile, organize, and summarize large quantities of legal and administrative documents

Word – high level of knowledge with adding footnotes, creating large mail merges, review and adding track changes, creating Table of contents, adding headers and footers, adding section breaks vs page breaks, and using styles

Editing and proofing document – highly experienced with reviewing and analyzing documents for accuracy, extremely detail oriented and well versed with spelling, grammar and legal language

Excel – working knowledge and understanding with tracking and entering data records into a spreadsheet, adding worksheets, naming worksheets

PowerPoint- working knowledge and understanding of editing, converting to Adobe and adding header and footers

Acrobat Pro- demonstrated working knowledge and understanding of editing, adding comments, redacting, adding headers/footers and creating fillable forms

Microsoft - experience with Microsoft 365 collaboration tools, including Microsoft Teams, Planner, Microsoft Lists, SharePoint, Data Sets and Outlook

Agenda.net/ SAP/ NEGOV – demonstrate experience with software or ability to learning new software

Social Media – coordination, research and posting experience is a plus