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Paralegal Specialist
Offices, Boards and Divisions · Posted 56 days ago
About the Role
The Enforcement and Affirmative Litigation Branch Civil Division is seeking highly skilled candidates with significant experience to serve as Paralegal Specialists. The incumbents will perform legal research, manage electronically stored information, and provide direct support to attorneys, including trial preparation and in-court presentation of electronic evidence through databases, including Sanction.
What You'll Do
- →The duties and responsibilities for a GS-0201-09/11 Paralegal Specialist generally include, but are not limited to, the following: GS-09: Conducts basic and legal research for assigned cases.
- →Reviews and analyzes prior case materials to become familiar with questions under consideration.
- →Uses electronic databases and other electronic means to perform various litigation support tasks, including organizing, indexing, and summarizing documents, files, and other material.
- →Utilizes the court's electronic case filing program and applies knowledge of the applicable local court rules and procedures for preparing and filing legal documents, including preparing documents for and running tables of contents, tables of authorities, and other required elements.
- →Retrieves cases and searches legal reference files for information and dates required.
- →Uses LEXIS and WESTLAW cite-checking features to verify citations and legal references in prepared Assists with preparing, editing, and updating office reports on litigation status. and other topics.
- →Drafts and revises other non-legal memoranda and reports.
- →Proofreads and cite-checks legal briefs, memoranda, and other legal documents.
- →Verifies accuracy of factual and legal references, ensures that citation format accords with requirements, and ensures that cases relied upon remain good authority.
- →GS-11: Conducts factual and legal research in a variety of legal and non-legal reference sources and databases and provides information in response to questions of moderate variety and complexity.
- →Drafts memoranda and comprehensive written reports that serve as the basis for developing critical legal arguments, recommendations, or opinions.
- →Independently conducts legal research on statutes, legislative history, regulations, and administrative and judicial precedents, including research in specialized areas requiring examination of esoteric sources and issues of first impression.
- →Provides technical support to attorneys during deposition and trial.
- →Ensures that pleadings, exhibits, trial notebooks and similar materials are prepared and ready for trial and evidentiary hearings.
Requirements
- ✓If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements, please see the statements below.
- ✓Education must be reviewed and certified by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education, in order for it to be creditable towards your qualifications.
- ✓Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from accredited institution.
- ✓FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements.
- ✓You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. education program.
- ✓It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
- ✓For special instructions pertaining to foreign education and a list of organizations that can evaluate foreign education, see the Department of Education website.
- ✓If you are qualifying on foreign education, you MUST submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency.
- ✓All documentation must be in English or include an English translation.
Personality Fit
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