Staffing Codes and Definitions

Job Classification Codes

01 Director
03 Deputy Director
05 Director of Litigation
07 Managing Attorney
09 Supervising Attorney
11 Staff Attorney
13 Paralegal
14 Information Technology Staff
15 PAI Coordinator
17 Training Responsible Person
18 Financial Professional
19 Management Professional
21 Law Clerk
23 Senior Aide
25 Administrative Assistant
27 Secretarial/Clerical
99 Other

Job Classification Codes -- Definitions

01 Director: This category refers only to the chief executive officer.

03 Deputy Director: This category refers to the deputy executive officer.

05 Director of Litigation: This category refers to the executive responsible for oversight of litigation.

07 Managing Attorney: This category refers to attorneys who supervise legal work and have substantial administrative and financial responsibilities, e.g., administer a cost center, branch office, or the like.

09 Supervising Attorney: This category refers to attorneys how supervise legal work but do not have substantial administrative and financial responsibilities.

11 Staff Attorney: This category includes all other attorneys, as well as law school graduates who have not passed a bar examination.

13 Paralegal: This category includes professionals whose duties consist primarily of such activities as intake interviewing, case investigations, checking court records, legal research, client representation at administrative hearings, and outreach and community work.

14 Information Technology Staff: This category refers to persons who devote a major portion of their time to the development and maintenance of the grantee’s automated information systems and applications, web site(s), and/or computer technology infrastructure.

15 PAI Coordinator: This category refers to a person who devotes a major portion of time to coordination of the Recipient's PAI plan.

17 Training Responsible Person: This category refers to an individual who devotes a major portion of time coordinating or providing training for the Recipient's or subrecipient's staff.

18 Financial Professionals: This category refers to persons who assist the director with financial management. For example, controller, accountant or bookkeeper.

19 Management Professionals: This category refers to persons who assist the director with personnel or administrative management. It does not include managing attorney positions covered in job code 07 or financial professionals covered in job code 18.

21 Law Clerk: This category refers to law students who have not graduated from law school.

23 Senior Aide: This category refers to persons employed under a specially designed job program for older workers.

25 Administrative Assistant: This category refers to executive assistants and administrative aides who do not have substantial administrative and financial responsibilities, but whose duties exceed those delegated to legal secretaries and clerical workers.

27 Secretarial/Clerical: This category includes all legal secretaries, as well as clerical workers such as typists, file clerks and receptionists.

Ethnicity Codes

10 White
20 Black
30 Hispanic
40 Native American
50 Asian or Pacific Islander
99 Other

Language Codes

00 American English
10 American Sign Language (Amislan) for the Deaf
20 American Indian (including Alaskan)
25 Creole Language
30 Dutch
32 Finnish
34 French
36 German
38 Italian
40 Norwegian
42 Portuguese
44 Spanish
46 Swedish
50 Armenian
52 Czech
54 Greek
56 Hungarian
58 Lithuanian
60 Polish
62 Russian
64 Serbo-Croatian
65 Slovak
66 Ukrainian
67 Yiddish
70 Arabic
75 Persian
80 Cambodian
82 Chinese
84 Asian Indian Language
86 Japanese
88 Korean
90 Philippine Language
92 Thai
94 Vietnamese
99 Other Specified Language