Legal Assistant - Litigation Team - City Attorney's Office (8173)

Company Description

Appointment Type: Permanent Exempt (PEX) position; individuals who are appointed to Exempt Positions are appointed at the pleasure of their appointing officer and are considered to be "at-will."

• Application Opening: November 14, 2025
• Application Deadline: Continuous, earliest close 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 2, 2025
• Compensation Range: $99,840 - $130,650
• Recruitment ID: RTF0159588-01125351

The San Francisco City Attorney’s Office is looking for a qualified and motivated legal assistant to join its Litigation Team. 

About the Office

The San Francisco City Attorney’s Office is an innovative, nationally-recognized municipal law office working to protect and advance the rights and interests of the City and County of San Francisco and its residents. With nearly 350 talented and dedicated employees, the Office provides exceptional legal services to the City’s Mayor, Board of Supervisors, officials, and departments. Our work empowers City leaders with effective, responsive, and creative legal solutions and representation so they can deliver critical public services, and our affirmative advocacy enhances the lives and wellbeing of San Francisco’s residents and visitors.

The Office recognizes that diversity in the backgrounds, identities, and experiences of our employees enriches our workplace and enhances our work. We aspire to recruit, employ, retain, and promote talented individuals representing the full spectrum of our community, and welcome all candidates, including candidates of any race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, and age, and candidates with disabilities. We have a clear vision: to be the place where a diverse mix of people want to come and stay, grow professionally, and find purpose and engagement, and where all employees feel welcomed and respected, and valued for their work and contributions to the Office and the City. To learn more about the Office’s efforts to provide an inclusive workplace where employees feel they belong and can meaningfully contribute, please visit: https://www.sfcityattorney.org/aboutus/dei/.

The Office provides a hybrid work schedule for eligible employees.

To learn more about the City Attorney’s Office please visit our website.

About the Litigation Team

The Litigation Team is a collaborative and dynamic group of 23 attorneys, seven paralegals and legal assistants, and seven legal secretaries.  The Team defends litigation filed against the City and County of San Francisco in State and Federal court, and handles cases such as personal injury, civil rights and property damage.

Job Description

Legal Assistant Position and Responsibilities

Legal Assistants work under the direction of attorneys and/or paralegals and provide a variety of paraprofessional legal duties in a fast-paced, high-volume litigation practice.  The responsibilities listed below represent the range of duties assigned and are not intended as an exhaustive list.

• Implement document litigation holds across various City departments.
• Coordinate with the Litigation Support Team to set up cases and establish and maintain databases.
• Create and organize case-specific databases and maintain case custodian lists on assigned cases.
• Draft and issue subpoenas.
• Assist with discovery, including electronic discovery, and the organization, case management, collection, review strategy, and production of documents obtained from litigants and City departments; prepare privilege logs.
• Conduct database searches using software such as Eclipse, Concordance, CaseMap, and Text Map, and review documents within these programs for relevance, responsiveness, and privilege.
• Assist in preparing motions by gathering exhibits, preparing and managing declarations, and fact and legal cite checking briefs and supporting documents using both Blue Book and California styles.
• Assist on appeals, including assembling the record and conducting fact and legal cite checking.
• Organize, review, search, and prepare documents, exhibits, transcripts, and other materials for use during investigations, discovery, hearings, trials and arbitrations using Eclipse, Concordance, CaseMap, Text Map, Trial Director, and other software.
• Estimate and communicate realistic deadlines and expectations to attorneys.
• Coordinate with attorneys, investigators, paralegals, legal assistants, secretaries, and others and effectively communicate with respect to assignments, workloads, status, and work product.

Qualifications