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Paralegal Specialist (Civil)
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys' Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/. As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement. This position is also being announced to All U.S. Citizens and Nationals under 26-MN-12978461-DE.
What You'll Do
- →If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team that is responsible for affirmative and defensive civil litigaiton.
- →Typical work assignments will include: Prepare and organize documentation, evidence, or other documentary data for trials.
- →Provide advice on the most efficient method for preparing legal documents.
- →Use multiple online legal systems to research, evaluate, and analyze a variety of routine legal topics and/or points of law.
- →Draft initial legal and administrative briefs, motions, oppositions to defense motions and correspondence for Assistant United States Attorney's (AUSA) review.
- →Develop and enter various case material into a computer database.
- →Prepare and organize exhibits, documents, memoranda, reports, and correspondence relating to cases for review by AUSAs for interviews, depositions, or use at trial.
- →Provide litigation case management and organize cases for court presentation.
- →Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.
- →This position is considered a career ladder opportunity, with a full performance level of GS-09.
- →If selected at a lower grade level, you may be non-competitively promoted to the next grade level at the discretion of your supervisor and is contingent upon meeting regulatory and legal requirements for promotion, satisfactory performance, and the availability of higher-level work.
- →Promotion is not guaranteed, and no promise of promotion is implied.
Requirements
- ✓All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓For a list of schools that meet this criteria, see http://www.ed.gov OR Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.
- ✓It is your responsibility to timely provide such evidence by submitting proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency with your application materials.
- ✓More information may be found at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.
- ✓All documentation must be in English or include an English translation.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 08fca52a-0cc4-4a0d-8406-509478761a55
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