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Paralegals
Paralegals perform substantive legal work under
the supervision of an attorney. They may gather research data
for use as evidence to formulate defense or to initiate legal
action. They are not authorized to directly represent an individual
client. Paralegals typically have a four-year college degree
and/or a paralegal certificate from a specialist program such
as the Justice Center's Paralegal
Certificate Program. Legal secretaries prepare legal
papers and correspondence, such as summonses, complaints, motions,
and subpoenas, and provide other secretarial support to lawyers.
- Occupational information. Visit a licensed AKCIS site to get cccupational outlook and average starting salary information for social service positions in Alaska, including legal assistant (paralegal) and clerical positions including legal secretary.
State of Alaska
Associate attorney is a State of Alaska job class representing
duties of a "mixed" nature, containing those of a paralegal
and/or a law clerk and designed to free others on the professional
staff to devote full time to problems requiring legal expertise.
The State of Alaska also has paralegal and legal secretary
job classes.
- Workplace Alaska. Workplace Alaska is the online recruitment process for all classified positions Range 8 and above with the State of Alaska. Search for Job Class Specifications to learn about paralegal and legal service job classes, including Paralegal Assistant I-II, Associate Attorney I-II, and Legal Secretary I-II. See Job Posting -- By Department to check for current job postings for the Department of Law. Vacancies can be searched by other criteria through the Vacancy Postings Board.
Local
- Alaska Association of Paralegals (formerly Alaska Association of Legal Assistants). AAP was founded in 1981 as a professional association of Alaska paralegals, and is a member organization of the National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA). AAP maintains a local job bank available through the "members-only" portion of its website.