LEGAL ASSISTANT/PARALEGAL - Litigation- Jobs Washington, DC | Silver Spring

Practicing Criminal Defense and Drunk Driving/ DUI/ DWI throughout Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, including the counties of Montgomery, Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, Arlington, Prince George's, Baltimore, Howard, Frederick, Anne Arundel (Annapolis and Glen Burnie), Prince William, and Loudoun.

- Career satisfaction, appreciation for strong performance , and respect for you and your work.

- A career to love, stimulating work that serves true justice, and rewarding client contact.

- Law partners who work closely with you, value your role in our law firm family, and encourage your

Practicing blue and white collar Criminal Defense and Drunk Driving/ DUI/ DWI defense law in state and federal courts throughout Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, including Northern Virginia / North Virginia and the counties of Montgomery, Fairfax County, Arlington, Prince George's, Alexandria, Howard, Frederick, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Prince William, and Loudoun, and beyond.

LEGAL ASSISTANT- FULL-TIME- STARTS JUNE 1, 2009 - Silver Spring , Maryland .

JON KATZ, P.C., is replacing its first-rate legal assistant, who starts law school this fall. We are conducting a rigorous in-depth search for his replacement, which will include up to two or three interview sessions. The selected candidate will start work on June 1, 2009, unless an earlier date is negotiated, and will be interviewed and trained by Jon Katz, our current full-time legal assistant, and our part-time legal assistant.

Our full-time legal assistant works 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. Some overtime work is needed to complete assignments timely and accurately.

You will be Jon Katz's right-hand person covering all the firm's administrative functions; handling various paralegal assignments, including legal research; and being in constant contact with existing and potential clients.

The successful candidate will have a bachelor's degree or its intellectual equivalent. We prefer candidates with prior successful experience with private law firms handling litigation. We will wish to speak in depth with references before making a final hiring decision.

For the right candidates, this position is unique and highly rewarding in return for successfully tackling fast-paced, litigation-driven deadlines. Attention to both detail, the big picture, and everything in between is essential.

The candidate must be a team player who is calm and caring with common-sense smarts.

We seek to maintain the high quality of our current support staff, even though our full-time legal assistant is moving on to law school. At the very minimum, success in this position requires success with strong relevant communication, organization, loyalty to the law firm and its clients, promptness arriving at work on time and in turning in assignments, accuracy and productivity. The fast pace of work is at once stimulating and challenging. Our experience is that successful candidates are excited about all aspects of the job at the beginning and retain that excitement along the way. Our clients put their faith and liberty in our law firm's hands and pay us substantially to do so; they expect and are entitled to first-rate work at every turn.

You will assist with cases from beginning to end, including substantial client contact and direct client assistance, scheduling, researching cases, legal research, drafting court filings, handling correspondence and banking matters, preparing for trial, drafting subpoenas, handling general administrative matters, and assisting in court from time-to-time.

This position requires prior successful secretarial or administrative assistant experience, preferably with litigation work in a private law firm, and a desire to serve the clients and causes we serve.

In return, you will get a rare, stimulating, and rewarding opportunity to serve true justice, to learn the art of persuasion in trial law practice, and (if you are considering law school) to get a leg up on your future legal career or deciding whether law school is for you. We will train you.

Pay is competitive and is complemented by performance-based bonuses where merited.

We typically receive dozens of applications for posted legal assistant openings, and recommend that you help make your application stand out through the following:

Please send us -- only via e-mail to justice[at]katzjustice[dot]com, fax or snail mail -- (1) a text version (please omit e-mail attachments) of your resume (one page), (2) your salary history, (3) a persuasive one-page cover letter (designating "Full-time Legal Assistant") showing how your specific career goals and interests fit with this position, and (4) a writing sample not edited by others and no longer than 3000 words. Please refrain from e-mail attachments, phone calls, and e-mail inquiries. For more information, visit www.katzjustice.com.

We ask that recruiters refrain from contacting us. We wish to hear directly from candidates.

Thanks to everyone who applied. This position has been filled. Please stay tuned for future job openings at our law firm.

JON KATZ, P.C., seeks a top-notch part-time legal assistant to supplement the work of the law firm's full-time legal assistant. The part-time legal assistant will work four to five days each week from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

This position requires prior successful secretarial or administrative assistant experience, smarts, common sense, a big heart, and a desire to serve the clients and causes we serve. We require at least some college studies, a college degree, or the intellectual equivalent thereof.

Please send us -- only via e-mail to justice[at]katzjustice[dot]com, fax or snail mail -- a text version (please omit e-mail attachments) of your resume (one page), your salary history, and a persuasive one-page cover letter (designating "Part-time Legal Assistant") showing how your specific career goals and interests fit with this position. Please state which days of the week you are available, and please confirm your availability to work 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.Please refrain from e-mail attachments, phone calls, and e-mail inquiries. For more information, visit www.katzjustice.com. POSTED December 15, 2008.

~~HERE IS OUR DECEMBER 14, 2008, CRAIGS LIST POSTING FOR THIS PART-TIME LEGAL ASSISTANT POSITION:~~

~~LEGAL ASSISTANT - Criminal Defense - Part-time only. (Silver Spring, MD)~~

Highly-rated criminal defense lawyer seeks first-rate PART-TIME legal assistant, with successful prior experience as a legal assistant or administrative assistant in the private sector. This is a rewarding and stimulating position and a rare opportunity. The position is particularly ideal for law school-bound applicants.

The successful candidate will work closely with highly-rated lawyer Jon Katz and his full-time legal assistant. This is a part-time position, covering the applicant's choice of four to five days weekly, 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

We will only review and consider resumes that meet the following criteria:

- Cover letter, resume, and salary history no lengthier than one-page each. On your email and cover letter, please confirm that this is for part-time work, and please confirm the days you are available to work and please confirm your availability 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily.

- We seek applications in text form only. Please do not send us e-mail attachments. We do not open e-mail attachments. It is particularly cumbersome and time-consuming to open e-attachments and resumes and cover letters longer than one page each on a Blackberry, and we wish to avoid virus exposure.

- Proven relevant success with legal assistant or administrative assistant work required.

- Requires college experience or clearly-expressed equivalent intellectual experience, a sharp mind, street smarts, and a caring heart.

- Requires scrupulous honesty, accuracy, confidentiality, professionalism, and a strong work ethic.

- Those within a forty-minute one-way commute are preferred.

The recipe for success with our law firm is strong interest in doing this work, and strength in COLPP: Communication, Organization, Loyalty, Promptness (including arriving to work on time), and Productivity.

The recipe for a successful application is for your cover letter to show how and why your experience and interests overlap with our law firm's hiring needs. We discourage mass-mailed applications, and we discourage resumes without cover letters as well as plain vanilla cover letters. Please take the time to visit our website before applying, at http://katzjustice.com and http://katzjustice.com/jobs.htm. This position is suited for people who thrive successfully with fast-paced challenges where no two work days are the same.

JON KATZ, P.C., seeks part-time and ad hoc law clerks to provide work in criminal and Constitutional defense. This position requires current or past law school attendance, and excellence in quality and efficient legal analysis, research and writing. Also required is a demonstrated genuine interest in the work we do. Please send us -- only via e-mail to jon[at]katzjustice[dot]com, fax or snail mail -- a text version of your resume, your salary history, a writing sample that was not edited by another person, and a persuasive cover letter (designating "Part-time Law Clerk" or "Ad Hoc Law Clerk") showing how your specific career goals and interests fit with this position. Please state the number of hours you seek to work weekly, and the days and hours of the day that you are available. Please refrain from e-mail attachments, phone calls, and e-mail inquiries. For more information, visit www.katzjustice.com.

This work is for ad hoc assignments only. You must have your own law firm- Silver Spring, Maryland.

JON KATZ, P.C., seeks experienced lawyers with their own law firms to assist with such ad hoc work as appearing for status hearings and motions hearings, primarily for criminal defense in the state and federal courts of Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

Please send us -- only via e-mail to jon[at]katzjustice[dot]com, fax or snail mail -- a text version of your resume, a writing sample that was not edited by another person, and a persuasive cover letter (designating "Ad Hoc Contract lawyer") showing how your abilities, interest, and experience qualify you for such work. Please refrain from e-mail attachments, phone calls, and e-mail inquiries. For more information, visit www.katzjustice.com.

PLEASE NOTE - WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY HIRING FOR ATTORNEY POSITIONS. The above positions are the only slots for which we are currently hiring.

- You have strong intelligence, maturity, and common sense commensurate with your position.

- A persuasive, well-written one-page cover letter showing why you qualify for and desire the specific position you seek.

- A one-page resume focusing on your skills, experience, and education that most closely qualify you for the position you seek.

- Full salary history, brief discussion of why you seek a new career challenge, and brief explanation of any gaps in career history.

-JON KATZ, P.C., IS COMMITTED TO THE LETTER & SPIRIT OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT FOR ALL