Legal Clerk Resume

Legal clerks are responsible for maintaining and organizing litigation materials. They do other duties that include filing, copying, providing customer service through mail and telephone when needed. Legal clerk must be flexible to work. They manage multiple demands for all daily activities, decisions and functions. They also create, organize procedures and create plans for workflow. Legal clerks are also responsible for perform research of issues of law that are presented in complex state appellate civil matters. They discuss about pending cases and decisions with judge.

Legal clerk is responsible for other duties like litigation management, organizing and maintaining litigation material, various clerical duties that include filing, court package assembly, copying and to provide customer service through telephone and other clerical duties. Drafting of memoranda of law and to give opinions and orders for judge's final approval, is also one of the important duty for them. They must be able to do this all daily activities, functions and decisions. Legal clerk needs good communication skill and knowledge of computer literate.

Sample Legal Clerk Resume

Richard Anderson
1234, West 67 Street,
Carlisle, MA 01741,
(123)-456 7890.

Objective: Looking for the greatest opportunity to work as a legal clerk for a reputed company.

Skills:

Ability to make research of laws.
Ability to handle busy workload.
Able to tackle variety of challenging work.
Able to work independently and under pressure.
Must be having excellent communication skills.
Must be familiar with computer literate.
Excellent client service skills.
Able to do other duties as assigned.

Computer Skills:

MS Outlook
MS Word
MS Excel

Work Experience:

Court of Special Appeals of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Law Clerk

Responsible for drafting and research of drafted memorandum opinions.
Preformed all tasks related to management of cases.
Help to judge in preparing education seminars for the other states.
Performed other clerical duties as assigned.
Maintained and organized litigation management.
Done other duties like filing, coping and provide customer service by telephone.

Randall and smith, LLP, Atlanta, GA
Legal clerk

Responsible for sending and receiving faxes.
Responsible to open and close the office.
Keep all the documents in organized manner.
Done other clerical duties such as filing, maintaining files that include storage and handling, ordering supplies etc.
File activities are recorded in record database.
Responsible to distribute and retrieve the documents and files upon request.
Responsible for other duties as assigned.

Education:
Houston University, Houston, TX, J.D.

References: Available upon request.