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Paralegal Specialist
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys · Posted 49 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-KS-13016072-DE. These positions will be assigned to work in one of our two office locations: Topeka or Kansas City.
What You'll Do
- →As a Paralegal Specialist in the United States Attorney's office (USAO) for the District of Kansas, you will provide a wide range of legal support services to one or more Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) involved in civil proceedings.
- →This position will be located in the civil division and primarily support civil division AUSAs and civil litigation, though the USAO may assign other work as needed.
- →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 interrogatories, requests for production, requests for admission, legal motions, briefs, and memoranda.
- →Reviewing and organizing factual material and other documents for investigation and use in legal briefs and memoranda, such as memoranda in support of motions for summary judgment and/or dismissal or in response thereto.
- →Preparing exhibits typically involving a wide range of materials to support summary judgment, motion practice, and/or trial.
- →Developing and entering various case material into a computer database.
- →Providing litigation case management and organizing cases for presentation at trial, negotiation conferences, and/or mediation.
- →Assisting AUSAs in hearings and trial by setting up and running courtroom presentation equipment and providing other assistance as needed.
- →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-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
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