LEGAL ASSISTANT - 72791

Executive Service

LEGAL ASSISTANT

Department of Health

Office of General Counsel

Nashville, TN

Salary : Approximately $48,684 annually depending upon education and experience. 11 paid holidays, 12 paid vacation days, and 12 paid sick days per year; 401K, pension, and health insurance.

Closing Date : 12 / 01 / 2025

This position is designated as Hybrid

Background Check :

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Who we are and what we do :

The Office of General Counsel handles administrative contested case hearings for department program areas and before boards, regulating health care providers, administrative rulemaking, providing legislative bill analyses, writing formal and informal legal opinions, providing timely and accurate legal advice to all department programs, and advising on ethics issues.

How you make a difference in this role :

The Office of General Counsel performs a variety of legal functions in support of the Department of Health's mission to protect, promote, and improve the health and well-being of all people in Tennessee.

Job Overview :

The Tennessee Department of Health is seeking a legal assistant to work in its Office of General Counsel.

Key Responsibilities :

The duties for this position include the following :

• Assist attorneys in trial litigation preparation
• Draft pleadings and letters
• Legal research
• File organization and preparation

Minimum Qualifications :

Education equivalent to graduation from an accredited college, university, or professional school with one of the following :

(1) an associate's degree in paralegal or legal assistant studies

(2) a bachelor's degree in paralegal or legal assistant studies

(3) a Paralegal Certificate

(4) one year (28 semester hours) of graduate level law school

OR

Education equivalent to graduation from a standard high school and two years of full-time experience in researching legal issues and documenting findings to assist in building case files, settling legal disputes, and / or providing legal counsel to clients.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and / or federal civil rights laws.