Date Posted: 01/15/2026
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 495680
Industry: Utility
Job Title: Senior Legal Secretary
Job Location: Oakland, CA, USA, 94612
Work Model: Hybrid
Work Model Details: Hybrid and required on-site 1 day/week.
Employment Type: Temporary
FT/PT: Full-Time
Estimated Duration (In months): 7
Min Hourly Rate($): 35.00
Max Hourly Rate($): 40.00
Must Have Skills/Attributes: Filing, Interpersonal Skills, MS Office, Writing Skills
Experience Desired: Heavy litigation experience as a legal secretary/legal assistant (4+ yrs); Word processing background ideal (4+ yrs)
Required Minimum Education: Associate’s Degree
**C2C is not available**
Job Description
Top things looking for:
1) Heavy litigation experience as a legal secretary/legal assistant
2) Word processing background ideal
3) Strong communication skills
4) Solid work background.
Education (Minimum):
• Associate’s (AA/AS) degree
Experience (Minimum):
• Four (4) years of experience as a Legal Secretary that includes litigation
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (Desired):
• Certificate of completion, coursework, or training from a university/college, vocational school, and/or extended learning within the areas of legal studies, office administration, or related field.
• Experience within a law firm organization or internal legal department
• Ability to type 55 words per minute.
• Experience with litigation practices and legal research, discovery, and evidence
• Experience with federal, state, and local regulatory agency requirements for filings.
• Knowledge and understanding of legal practices and court proceedings
• Knowledge and understanding of regulatory agency guidelines and requirements for filings
• Ability to maintain client confidence and discretion by sustaining confidential attorney/client information
• Ability to assess and provide recommendations and/or resolutions for projects
• Organizational and interpersonal skills
• Oral communication and legal writing skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
Job Responsibilities:
• Prepares legal documents and correspondence and handles filings on behalf of attorneys.
• Schedules, updates, and maintains accurate calendaring for court appearances, and due dates of pleadings, depositions, hearings, and meetings.
• Responds to various inquiries, requests and correspondence regarding meetings, cases, and court and regulatory proceedings.
• Prepares correspondence, forms, templates, legal documents and e-filing on behalf of attorneys.
• Ensures correspondence, forms, templates, legal documents and efilings are accurate and complete.
• Reviews notices of meetings, hearings, depositions, interviews, settlements, and conferences for consideration with attorneys.
• Ensures notifications to attorneys, witnesses, and other interested/relevant parties are timely, accurate, clear, concise, and complete.
• Monitors and reviews the calendars for court and regulatory agency/commission appearances, and due dates of pleadings, depositions, hearings, meetings, and resolves all scheduling issues.
• Evaluates and develops recommendations regarding the transmission, extraction, conversion, and dissemination of information from various forms of communication.
• Ensures the transmission of materials, correspondence, and communications to clients, witnesses, and federal, state, and local court officials and regulatory agencies/commissions are timely, accurate, clear, concise, and complete.
• Responds and resolves escalated inquiries, requests and correspondence regarding meetings, hearings, cases, and court/regulatory proceedings. - **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**
- **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**
Benefits:
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California Pay Equity:
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Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.
If you need assistance in completing this application, or during any phase of the application, interview, hiring, or employment process, whether due to a disability or otherwise, please contact our HR Department.
Rose International has an official agreement (ID #132522), effective June 30, 2008, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Employment Verification Program (E-Verify). (Posting required by OCGA 13/10-91.).
I had a very positive experience working for Rose. The entire process is very efficient and easy.
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Your team at Rose International is always very helpful and responsive.
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Rose International was not only attentive and responsive, but they were very professional and helpful whenever I called or needed any assistance.
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Rose International has been great to me. I thank everyone there for all of their hard work; it has not gone unnoticed.
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Each time I contacted Rose, I was completely satisfied with the great attention and customer service I received. Each person was extremely knowledgeable and patient with my concerns or questions.
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