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Paralegal Specialist
Office of the Solicitor · Posted 56 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in the Office of the Solicitor, San Francisco Regional Office. This position maybe filled in Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA, or Seattle, WA. The work of the organization requires continuous contact with United States District Judges, Administrative Law Judges, Clerks of Courts, United States Attorneys, the public, and the media. The work generates considerable interest from members of Congress, bar associations, and officers of state and local governments.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties include but are not limited to the following: GS-07 Draft routine pleadings, correspondence, memorandas, and other legal documents using established formats.
- →Review legal documents for completeness (proper format, grammatical accuracy, and compliance with established legal procedures) before submission to attorneys.
- →Conduct basic legal research using statutes, regulations, agency policies, court decisions, legal databases, and reference materials to locate applicable authorities.
- →Prepare factual chronologies, document summaries, and case information for attorney review.
- →GS-09 Verify citations and legal authorities to support attorneys.
- →Draft routine pleadings, correspondence, memoranda, and other legal documents using established formats.
- →Participates in interviewing potential witnesses, union representatives, claimants, grievants, and employees to gather information and arranging for subpoenas and indexing/abstracting depositions.
- →Assists in E-Filing, and responding to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and requests for agency testimony and record in third-party actions (Third Party Subpoena cases).
- →GS-11 Summarizes findings or documents for use by attorneys in preparing legal documents.
- →Identifies the need for uniform procedures and standards to facilitate legal activities and related administrative processes and avoid duplication of effort and undue delay in accomplishing objectives.
- →Interview potential witnesses, union representatives, claimants, grievants, and employees to gather information and arranging for subpoenas and indexing/abstracting depositions.
- →Review discovery materials, identifying appropriate objections, gathering documents, and making redactions to those documents consistent with the governmental privileges permitted in federal litigation.
Requirements
- ✓Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.
- ✓If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum coursework requirements for this position.
- ✓Click Evaluation of Foreign Education for more information.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 8d939fc8-196d-44db-a971-60d5a826a37f
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