Fair Hearings Case Assistant

The FHCU Case Assistant job duties will include: - Perform CONNECTIONS database search for relevant records. - Redact social services records found in the CONNECTIONS database and hardcopy records stored in the warehouse pursuant to Social Services Law, Public Health Law, and other Confidentiality Statutes. - Assist with trial preparation, including but not limited to redaction of case records, drafting subpoenas, summonses, correspondences and/or other forms and papers as requested by attorney staff. - Assist in performing legal research using Lexis Nexis among other reference materials. - Assist with legal research, including the retrieval of court decisions, statutes, regulations and other legal documents - Obtain court documents and records from all five boroughs. - Provide Administrative support to FHCU attorneys and staff including but not limited to copying, scanning, and mailing documents. - Respond to requests for information from staff and others by researching files and retrieving files from the warehouse; Enters files in WITS and coordinate the transfer/retrieval of files to/from the warehouse - Maintain appointment calendars by scheduling/ confirming appointments and recording/ updating time and nature of appointments - Maintain various FHCU case logs, including Article 78 and other proceedings. - Assist with data entry.