Job Details

Legal Assistant Position

The Legal Clinic (TLC) is seeking a full-time legal assistant to join our small but growing team. TLC is a Honolulu-based nonprofit organization with a mission to restore hope, dignity, and justice for low-income immigrants through high-quality immigration legal services, education, and advocacy.

Responsibilities

• Handle reception (phone, email, in-person)
• Client screening duties and carry out tasks to support the legal services team
• Client communications (i.e. screening, scheduling, intake, letters, and email and phone follow-up)
• Case file management; notetaking and data entry; meeting setup; document preparation, tracking, scanning, and mailing; case- and resource-related research; assistance with drafting cover letters, motions, affidavits, petitions, briefs, and appeals (with attorney training/supervision)
• Event support
• Coordination of language interpretation/translation services
• Client support before and during U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services interviews
• Additional administrative duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Associate's or Bachelor's degree, or higher, preferred
• Previous administrative assistant or legal assistant experience preferred
• Must be detailed oriented and possess superb organizational skills
• Ability to work sensitively with colleagues and clients having diverse personalities, lifestyles, cultures, faiths, and backgrounds
• Ability to maintain client confidentiality and communicate with professionalism and courtesy
• Ability to take initiative, multi-task, meet deadlines, and work well under pressure
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office software such as Word, Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint Ability to learn legal case management software (currently FastVisa) and other databases/CRM
• Demonstrated interest in supporting immigrant and migrant rights
• Ability to speak in one or more languages aside from English desired, but not required
• Familiarity with communities in Hawai'i and/or immigrant communities is desired

Email resume and cover letter to jobs@thelegalclinichawaii.org. Interviews scheduled on a rolling basis through November 2022.