PARALEGAL (AG)
About The Position
About the Office: The Attorney General is the state’s top lawyer and law enforcement official, protecting and serving the people and interests of Rhode Island through a broad range of duties. Every day, the Office’s attorneys fight to ensure the public safety of the state’s communities, improve the economic security of its citizens, safeguard the state’s spectacular natural resources, and restore the public’s trust in government. Assistant and Special Assistant Attorneys General represent the people of Rhode Island in civil and criminal matters before trial courts, appellate courts, and the supreme courts of Rhode Island and the United States. The Office is unique among attorneys general offices across the country. Out of fifty states, only two other offices share the same broad criminal mission. The Office’s attorneys prosecute complex and violent crimes and functionally serve as one of the nation’s largest district attorney’s offices, prosecuting all felonies throughout the state.
Requirements
- Such as having been gained through graduation from a senior high school, supplemented by courses in paralegal studies.
- Applicants must possess superior paralegal, clerical, and organizational skills, be computer literate, adept at learning new computer programs and the capacity to function at a high level in a demanding environment.
- Additionally, applicants must exhibit the ability to work in a supportive and professional manner with other support staff, attorneys, law enforcement agencies, and the general public.
Responsibilities
- The person selected for the position is required to work in-office and will assist prosecutors with assigned legal matters and cases.
- This includes reviewing case materials, drafting discovery requests and responses and initiating/e-filing cases in the Odyssey/File & Serve portals and Criminal case management system (CMS), and Axon/ Evidence.com; assisting with trial preparation; coordinating with police officers and witnesses; legal research; and any other related duties as instructed by the Unit Chief and Chief Paralegal of the Criminal Division.
Benefits
- For information regarding the benefits available to State of Rhode Island employees, please visit the Office of Employee Benefits' website at http://www.employeebenefits.ri.gov/.
- Also, be advised that a new provision in RI General Law 35-6-1 was enacted requiring direct deposit for all employees. Specific to new hires, the law requires that all employees hired after September 30, 2014 participate in direct deposit. Accordingly, any employee hired after this date will be required to participate in the direct deposit system. At the time the employee is hired, the employee shall identify a financial institution that will serve as a personal depository agency for the employee.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
