Legal Secretary I - Dependency & Mental Health Team - City Attorney's Office (1458)

Company Description

The San Francisco City Attorney’s Office is looking for a qualified and motivated legal secretary to join its Dependency & Mental Health Team.

Appointment Type: Temporary Provisional (TPV), limited to no more than 3 years in duration. This temporary position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process, is considered "at will" and shall serve at the discretion of the Department Head. This position will be subject to the Permanent Civil Service examination process. Successful participation in the Permanent Civil Service examination and selection through an open competitive process is needed in order to be considered for the permanent appointment.

• Application Opening: March 11, 2025
• Application Deadline: Continuous, earliest close 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, 2025
• Compensation Range: $92,508 - $112,424
• Recruitment ID: RTF0155623-01054424

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 over 300 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, ideas, and lived 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 for their full authentic selves, 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/

Currently, the Office offers a hybrid remote work schedule for eligible employees, with three days onsite and up to two days remote.

To learn more about the City Attorney’s Office please visit: https://www.sfcityattorney.org/

Job Description

About the Dependency and Mental Health Team
The DMH Team is a collaborative and dynamic group of fourteen 14 attorneys, two paralegals, one legal assistant and two legal secretaries. DMH is a litigation team that handles two confidential court-based practices with heavy and active caseloads: Child Welfare/Dependency and Conservatorships. DMH works with protective services workers to represent the interests of abused and neglected children in San Francisco. Attorneys advise the Family and Children Services Division of the Human Services Agency in all phases of dependency litigation. DMH also advises the Public Conservator (PC) and represents them in court proceedings on Lanterman Petris Short (LPS) conservatorships. DMH serves as advice counsel, as well as litigation counsel, on more than 600 conservatorship cases in San Francisco.

Position Information and Responsibilities
Legal secretaries work under the direction of attorneys and provide a variety of secretarial and clerical duties in high volume, fast-paced litigation. Keen attention to detail is required. The responsibilities listed below are representative of the range of duties assigned and are not intended as an exhaustive list. 

• Ensures compliance with the court orders regarding discovery provided to adverse attorneys – typically three per case in nearly 800 dependency cases. Coordinates with agency client and vendor to ensure document productions. Verifies vendor invoices are accurate. Organizes and maintains a spreadsheet to ensure requests/orders are provided in a timely fashion and communicates with individual protective services workers to provide notice of discovery production orders.

• Handles opening, closing, and calendaring of cases in calendaring program.  Ensures court notes from