Legal Assistant II

Overview

Date:
Jan 21, 2026

Location:

AUSTIN, TX

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Functional

Title:

Legal Assistant II

Job Title: Legal Assistant II

Agency: Health & Human Services Comm

Department: LSD Enforcement 2

Posting Number: 12945

Closing Date: 02/04/2026

Posting Audience: Internal and External

Occupational Category: Legal

Salary Group: TEXAS-B-18

Salary Range: $4,857.33 - $5,921.25

Pay Frequency: Monthly

Shift: Day

Telework:

Additional Shift:

Travel: Regular

Full Time/Part Time: Full time

FLSA Exempt/Non-Exempt: Nonexempt

Facility

Location:

Job Location City: AUSTIN

Job Location Address: 4601 W GUADALUPE ST

Other Locations: MOS Codes: ,,270A,27D,5J0X1,LN,YN,YNS

This position will serve as a support staff in the Enforcement Department. The Enforcement Department is one of seven departments in the Legal Services Division of the HHS Office of Chief Counsel. The Enforcement Department provides legal support related to HHS sanctions against facilities, programs, and services, including reviewing and drafting notices, correspondence, and guidance documents; interpreting state and federal laws, regulations, and rules;

rendering legal advice and counsel to HHS agency personnel; providing legal representation in contested case proceedings, and overseeing enforcement litigation in district courts.

Job Duties

This legal assistant position works in the Enforcement Department in the Legal Services Division. The legal assistant II works under general supervision, with limited latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. May routinely assist others in performing job duties of greater complexity, and may:

• Maintain databases, drafts correspondence, obtains program records supporting the enforcement action, and supports attorney hearing preparation and case management.
• Researching, analyzing, investigating, and drafting legal documents.
• Schedule and prioritize attorney caseloads; organize case files; attend initial interviews and depositions; conduct investigations; and prepare chronologies, fact summaries, and witness files.
• Schedule and draft interrogatories and requests for production, admissions, and information.
• Assemble and prepare evidence, exhibits, affidavits, and documents for use in legal proceedings. Including but not limited to review and redact confidential documents for filing with various courts.
• Meet with clients and others to discuss details of cases.
• Maintain current and historical files of statutory rule changes.

Provides litigation support to enforcement department attorneys. Communicates with attorneys on a scheduled and ad hoc basis to determine action that needs to be taken on each case. Performs tasks assigned by attorneys in a timely and accurate manner.

Drafts, reviews, and edits legal correspondence and documents including prehearing motions and discovery requests/responses (such as, motions for summary disposition, stipulations, settlement agreements, requests for disclosure, interrogatories, requests for production, and requests for admission) under minimal supervision of attorneys.

Facilitates communication of information, including responding to requests for documents, with non-enforcement department staff, including judges and staff from HHSC Appeals Division and State Office of Administrative Hearings, attorneys and staff of the Office of the Attorney General, local prosecuting attorneys and DFPS/ DSHS staff. Communicates information in a timely, appropriate, professional and effective manner. Ensures that clients are informed of important events such as appeals, hearing and trial dates, deposition settings, and case outcomes.

Ensures compliance with communication plans between the client and enforcement department.

Supports litigation function and assists in preparation for hearing. Requests relevant files; conducts initial file reviews; identifies and locates witnesses and prepares case chronologies based on document review and witness interviews; researches and analyzes applicable statutes, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures applicable to the case; and researches and arranges for proper service of process. Prepares documentary evidence for trial by redacting records in compliance with HIPAA and other privacy laws and organizing and marking exhibits in compliance with department procedures or attorney instruction.

Organizes the evidence, witness outlines, and applicable law into trial notebooks for use during prehearing preparation and hearing.

Supports…