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Paralegal Specialist (Criminal)
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-12959597-DE.
What You'll Do
- →As a Paralegal Specialist in the United States Attorney's office (USAO) for the District of Minnesota, you will provide a wide range of legal support services to multiple Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) involved in criminal proceedings.
- →Your duties will include: Using a variety of automated legal research tools as well as public information databases and other automated resources to research case law, statutory law, and/or program specific legal matters.
- →Preparing initial drafts of a variety of legal documents, including correspondence, subpoenas, court orders, motions, responses, sentencing memorandums, briefs, and memoranda.
- →Reviewing and organizing factual material and other documents for investigation and use in legal pleadings, such as responses to motions to suppress, sentencing memorandums, and responses to collateral attacks.
- →Preparing exhibits for hearings and trials, which may involve a wide range of visual materials including charts, diagrams, photographs, and models.
- →Assisting in receiving, evaluating, and producing discovery in cases in compliance with applicable law, rules, and policy.
- →Conducting a variety of legal assistance duties pertaining to legal actions, requests, or matters associated with grand jury operations, such as the preparation of subpoenas, correspondence, pleadings, and proposed orders.
- →Performing a variety of legal assistance and technical work to support AUSAs.
- →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-11.
- →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
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