Electronic Frontier Foundation is hiring a
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. EFF’s mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. EFF is looking for an experienced professional to join our Legal team as a full-time Legal Secretary.
EFF Legal Secretaries support up to nine attorneys in their litigation, appellate, and policy practices. Representative duties include monitoring dockets, manually calculating and calendaring litigation dates, advanced formatting, researching applicable court rules to ensure filings are compliant, and e-filing. EFF legal secretaries also provides admin support such as maintaining case files, running and entering conflict checks, creating binders, and maintaining the legal policy docket. If another secretary is unavailable due to illness or vacation, may be asked to provide short term support to an additional attorney on an ad hoc basis.
Essential Functions:
Court filings
Calendaring
Administrative and Case Support
Discovery
Other research, projects, and tasks determined in collaboration with lawyers or manager
Competencies:
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Strong time management skills in a fast-paced environment; ability to perform multiple tasks concurrently, complete tasks on schedule, and respond to changing deadlines
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
Problem solver and solution-focused
Ability to work independently
Be welcoming, approachable, and empathetic when responding to inquiries
Comfortable learning and using unfamiliar software
Willing and eager to help keep EFF’s legislative and legal teams running smoothly, including working proactively to identify and solve problems
Ability to work effectively within a team environment including:
Contribute to the creation of a diverse, equitable and inclusive work culture that encourages and celebrates differences including race, ethnicity, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability and socio-economic circumstance.
Adaptable to different working and communication styles
Required Education & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree
Significant and recent experience as a litigation or appellate secretary
Demonstrated knowledge of procedures, terminology, and documents relating to litigation and appellate practice
Experience filing documents in state, federal, and/or appellate courts
Experience researching rules/procedures in unfamiliar venues
Experience manually calculating and calendaring litigation and/or appellate deadlines
Advanced knowledge of MS Word, styles, and generating TOC/TOAs
Preferred Education & Experience:
Classification: Non-Exempt, Union, Full-time (40 hrs per week)
Compensation: $43.27 - $48.08 per hour DOE (Approximate yearly equivalent of $90,000 to $100,000)
Expected hours of work: Typically Monday-Friday 9:00-5:00.
Reports to: Legal Support Manager
Supervisory responsibilities: None
Physical Demands: This position requires the ability to lift up to 10 lbs on occasion.
Location: This is a full-time position at EFF’s offices in San Francisco.
Commitment to Diversity
As an advocacy organization, EFF is committed to being part of a diverse community. Diversity of life experiences makes a big difference in how we identify and litigate legal issues, design privacy-enhancing software, and organize our activism. To that end, we deliberately seek applicants with different perspectives, identities, and experiences to build an inclusive workplace to better inform our advocacy and defense of freedom in our digital world. EFF is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of all races, genders, ages, abilities, orientations, ethnicities, and national origins to apply.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.