Litigation Assistant

4 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Auckland Transport Full time

We're looking for a **Litigation Assistant **to join our team, reporting into the Legal Counsel (Litigation).

**Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity**

In this role you'll assist the litigation team with preparing, reporting and managing court enforcement proceedings in multiple courts around Auckland.

Our prosecutors deal with parking offences, special vehicle lane offences, harbourmaster offences and public transport fare evasion offences. Our Legal Counsel deals with a range of enforcement matters, including high court proceedings.

All matters are complex involving multiple Acts, regulations and rules therefore, we're looking for someone with a strong interest in litigation who is able to support the prosecutors & legal counsel - litigation.
- Updating files and case management systems (e.g. SharePoint, Pathway, litigation diary)
- Assisting with legal research.
- Preparing disclosure for review by the prosecutors.
- Copying and filing submissions
- Assisting with enquiries/correspondence from defendants
- Liaising with the Customer Care team dealing with information requests relating to matters currently before the court.
- Building relationships with internal stakeholders and the courts.
- Assisting our panel of external legal providers with discovery queries when necessary.

**Ko koe tēnei | About you**

To be successful in this role you will need:

- Prior experience in administration tasks
- Self-motivated but also a team player
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
- Confident and resilient under pressure
- Excellent written and oral communications skills
- Experience dealing with confidential/sensitive information

**Ko wai mātou | About us**

At AT, we embrace inclusion and fully support building a diverse workplace where people come first and we feel safe, respected, valued and supported, inclusive of our differences. Our values are more than just words - they are integral to everything we do. **Manaakitanga**:

- We care, **Tiakitanga** - Safe with us, **Whanaungatanga** - We connect, **Auahatanga**:

- Better, bolder, together.

In addition, our Flexible Working initiative empowers our people to work flexibly whilst meeting the needs of our customers, the organisation and the individual.

In addition, we also offer:

- Investment in your professional development and training
- Opportunity for greater leadership and accountability
- Modern CBD (Wynyard Quarter) waterfront-based office
- Paid parental and partner leave
- Study assistance
- Health and Wellbeing benefits
- Professional memberships

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