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Paralegal Specialist
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Posted 54 days ago
About the Role
The Legal Forfeiture Unit (LFU) provides legal oversight of all aspects of the FBI's asset forfeiture program, ensuring proper utilization of forfeiture in a wide range of criminal violations to remove the profit from crime, dismantle existing and emerging organized criminal enterprises, cartels, and terrorist organizations, disrupt those illicit activities which threaten the physical or economic security of the United States, and recover assets that may be used to compensate victims.
What You'll Do
- →Conduct case file legal reviews, inquiries, analysis, and research at direction of attorneys to identify legal issues and potential risks in forfeiture proceedings and to support legal strategy and decision making.
- →Assist in gathering, collecting, reviewing, and analyzing factual information to satisfy legal and policy requirements for forfeiture.
- →Draft clear and accurate legal documents, memoranda, and correspondence for attorney review while adhering to unit's priorities, deadlines, and established legal procedures.
- →Handle administrative and organizational tasks to support forfeiture legal proceedings, including but not limited to data entry in applicable databases and systems; document preparation; formatting, mailing, and tracking legal correspondence; maintaining and organizing unit filing and document retention systems.
- →Assist in litigation preparation and organization.
- →Manage and track case assignments for unit.
- →Provide training to other personnel as needed.
- →Coordinate and communicate information in a timely professional manner between LFU and other entities, internal and external, as directed.
- →The ideal candidate should have paralegal experience in asset forfeiture or criminal law or otherwise will have paralegal experience in a position requiring strong organization and writing skills.
Requirements
- ✓Must be a U.S. citizen.
- ✓Must be able to obtain a Top Secret-SCI clearance.
- ✓There are no education requirements for this position as this grade level.
Personality Fit
Job ID: a093afa6-a51f-4945-a2f2-4ac31e61b302
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