Legal Clerk I - Court Listings Unit - Municipal Court, Traffic Division

Company Description

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Agency Description

The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania is the Philadelphia County Court System composed of two courts: the Court of Common Pleas and the Municipal Court. Our mission is to adjudicate cases and provide services to the community within our jurisdiction while ensuring fair, timely, and accessible justice to the people of Philadelphia.

About Department

The Traffic Division of the Municipal Court processes violations of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code issued in the City of Philadelphia. Such violations include, but are not limited to, red light citations, stop sign violations, and driving without a license, registration, or insurance.

In order to apply and be considered for this position, please visit https://fjdcareers.phila.gov/Cyberweb/ to complete an application and upload a resume.

Job Description

Position Summary

Processes legal documents for purposes of docketing their receipt.

This is entry level clerical legal work. It differs from the non-legal clerical classes by the constant work with legal documents and the degree of consequence of error and accountability involving the abstraction of pertinent information from legal documents in summary form to a docket which may serve as a basis for possible legal activity by counsel and the judiciary. Work is performed according to clearly defined rules and procedures, under direct supervision, in a training mode.

Essential Functions

· Processes continuance requests submitted by court users.

· Examines legal instruments to determine information for posting to dockets.

· Abstracts, summarizes and records filing dates, types of legal instruments, and in some cases, substance of legal documents into dockets.

· Returns incorrect documents for appropriate action if necessary.

· Processes documents in accordance with standard procedures.

· Examines legal instruments to determine applicability of posting into indexes of judgments and liens.

· Extracts pertinent information onto work sheets for indexing purposes into a variety of registers.

· Searches dockets and indexes in order to serve the public with information.

· Accepts filings from staff, judges, and other interested parties and exemplifies and certifies essential documents for legal or personal transactions.

· Processes incoming official and essential legal documents for inclusion into a system of court records according to procedural rules.

· Checks court documents for errors and serves as a quality control check.

· Performs terminal or PC data entry on legal filing turn-around documents from handwritten or coded material.

· Maintains a court record filing system with adequate controls, standards, and access restrictions.

· Scans plea requests and letters of continuance.

· Resolves and responds to inquiries concerning court documents or actions, especially scheduling.

· Prepares legal documents for dissemination or appropriate legal action by signature.

· Distributes documents to correct destinations and may hand deliver legal documents or records.

· May verify the location of defendants.

· Instructs others on proper procedural steps.

In order to apply and be considered for this position, please visit https://fjdcareers.phila.gov/Cyberweb/ to complete an application and upload a resume.

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