Legal Assistant- Part-Time
Bring Your Career To The Next Level
HIRING LEGAL ASSISTANT- Part-Time
Join Our Experienced Winning Team
PLEASE ONLY APPLY AFTER REVIEWING THIS ENTIRE JOB POSTING
PLEASE ONLY APPLY AFTER FULLY REVIEWING THIS JOB POSTING, WITH A ONE-PAGE RESUME AND TARGETED COVER LETTER
This position is immediately available as of July 20, 2026
Join our great team, where you will be well trained to perform great and rewarding legal assistant work.
This is a great and rare opportunity with a top-rated Fairfax criminal defense and DUI defense law firm.
What makes this a great career opportunity? You will do meaningful and stimulating work for people, protecting their civil liberties as a valued team member, trained for success for days that go fast with never a dull moment.
What makes this career opportunity rare? We are a client-centered and heart-centered law firm pursuing the best defense of Virginia criminal defendants and DUI defendants. Highly-rated criminal defense lawyer Jon Katz repeatedly obtains great victories (from acquittals to great settlements) for his criminal defense and driving while impaired defense clients. Jon is among the small number of Northern Virginia criminal defense lawyers who applies the approaches he has learned from the unparalleled two week National Criminal Defense College Trial Practice Institute and four-week Trial Lawyers College. He has been trained by one of the nation's top trainers of field sobriety testing to police for DUI cases, applying these tests with people who have consumed alcohol.
If the above resonates with you, please read on...
What do we seek in a successful candidate? The successful candidate will align with our core values, will value working as a team in pursuing our clients' best defense, and will ascribe to the importance of strong and professional communication, full organization, loyalty to our clients and firm, and productivity and promptness with work (COLPP).
Be part of the sense of rewarding accomplishment that starts with helping lift the burden from our clients' shoulders, often with great court results. The work here is meaningful, rewarding, and life changing to so many of our clients. The day goes fast, with plenty of invigorating and exciting work.
If you have what it takes to be a successful legal assistant, let us hear from you. Not just with a resume sent with one mouse click, but with a targeted cover letter that tells us what resonates for you about this job, who you are as a person, your professional goals, and some of the great contributions you can make in this position.
Your Work Will Make A Positive Impact On Our Clients' Lives. You Will Learn Indispensable Persuasion Skills.
Our decades of success is grounded in providing clients with great service and a great experience, and persuading on the path of obtaining the best possible outcome for our clients.
This Is Fast-Paced Work, Like Helping In A Hospital Emergency Room
The great results we get in court stem from smart and hard work. We seek driven applicants with warm hearts, street smarts, and a strong work ethic.
You will have great opportunities to interact with our clients, our experienced staff, Jon Katz, court personnel and many others.
We Seek People With College Experience Or The Equivalent, You Will Be Well Trained.
For this position, we seek candidates with college experience or the equivalent. We will train you well. We seek applicants who will succeed and thrive in the short term and long term.
More About This Job
Key duties of this career opportunity include working well as a team and individually
Work 40 hours minimum weekly within our regular 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. workday, running Monday through Friday
Engage in substantial contact with clients, court personnel, and prosecution personnel.
Handle fast-paced, dynamic work, giving full attention to detail and each project objective. The day goes fast.
Draft and file court documents and correspondence advancing our clients' Constitutional rights and civil liberties.
Be trained on and use Westlaw legal research software
Assist with such marketing as newsletters, podcasts, guides, and social media
Have a good phone manner, kindness and affability
Discuss case preparation and strategy with Jon Katz and staff
Touch type with a minimum 35 words per minute.
Handle MS Word, G-Suite/G-Mail, Google Calendar, Google Voice text messaging, Dropbox, Mailchimp, Docusign, and online court docketing review
Have a car to drive to nearby courthouses when needed.
What pay, benefits, and rewards do our employees get?
We pay and train to retain. We include paid vacation time, annual leave time, and paid federal holidays.
Onsite parking is free. Our office across the street from the Fairfax courthouse is spacious, beautiful, and comfortable, with premium coffee and spring water.
You will have substantial and meaningful contact with clients, witnesses, opposing counsel, and courthouse staff. Our clients are good, presumed-innocent people who often are charged with crimes for the first and only times in their lives, and we work hard for them obtain as much victory as possible and to get on with their lives.
Are You Ready To Jumpstart Your Career?
ONLY SEEKING APPLICATIONS WITH A COVER LETTER THAT ANSWERS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
Please only apply for this position if you meet our above-listed qualifications, and if this job speaks to you, your drive, and your ability.
Please email us (only in pdf format) your targeted cover letter and one-page resume to ftjkpc@katzjustice.com. Please include a targeted cover letter or detailed email message that tells us more about you than your resume relates, to include your answers to the following questions:
What city/town and state do you live in?
What inspired you to apply for this job?
Please let us call you before you call or visit us. Employment agencies are asked to refrain from contacting us; we wish to directly hear only from candidates.
AGAIN, PLEASE ASSURE YOUR APPLICATION INCLUDES A RESUME, AND A COVER LETTER THAT ANSWERS THE ABOVE QUESTIONS
We are fully devoted to Equal Employment Opportunity.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to apply.
