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Paralegal Specialist (Immigration/Violent Crimes)
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys · Posted 12 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/. For more information on the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx. As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement. This position is also being announced to applicants eligible to apply through Merit Staffing procedures under 26-SDTX-12989840-MS.
What You'll Do
- →If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team in the United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas (SDTX).
- →As a Paralegal Specialist (Immigration/Violent Crimes) in the United States Attorney's Office (USAO), you will: Performing extensive and thorough legal research into the legislative history, precedent cases, decisions, and opinions that may be applicable to particular legal matters.
- →Drafting initial legal and administrative briefs, U.S.
- →Attorney Office motions, oppositions to defense motions and correspondence for Assistant U.S.
- →Attorneys review.
- →Organizing data and developing trial exhibits such as statistical charts, graphs, and timelines to be presented in court as corroborative evidence.
- →Preparing and organizing trial exhibits, documents, memoranda, reports and correspondence relating to cases for review by Assistant U.S.
- →Attorneys review.
- →Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.
- →If selected for the position, you will be assigned to the Criminal Division.
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: 15ebddb3-045d-4748-9929-c77a08bb0cfa
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