Everytown for Gun Safety

Legal Assistant

• Assisting Everytown Law attorneys and case teams in all areas of litigation, including case management, proofreading briefs, preparing documents, filing, preparing binders, drafting form documents, and tracking dockets and cases
• Providing administrative assistance, including scheduling, printing, note-taking, expense reporting/tracking, arranging travel, electronic document management and organization, mailing, client intake tracking and contact, assisting with the hiring and onboarding of interns and attorneys, and assisting with event planning (such as retreats, CLE programs, conferences, and webinars)
• Updating our website
• Coordinating with other Everytown departments, as well as external partners and clients
• Conducting factual, social science, and legal research and investigations to develop evidentiary narratives for civil lawsuits involving gun violence
• Use databases, government material, legal documents, court decisions, social media sites, forums, open sources, journals, and other mediums to investigate
• Draft and file records requests to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and courts, in the form of FOIAs and local equivalents

Legal Assistant, Researcher