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Paralegal Specialist
Offices, Boards and Divisions · Posted 25 days ago
About the Role
NSD is responsible for developing, enforcing, and supervising the application of all federal criminal laws related to the national counterterrorism and counter espionage enforcement programs; and litigating and coordinating a wide range of prosecutions and criminal investigations targeting individuals and organizations that commit or attempt to commit terrorist acts in the U.S. or against U.S. persons or interests abroad, or that assist in the financing of or providing support for those acts.
What You'll Do
- →The purpose of this position is to serve as a Paralegal Specialist, providing paralegal support to one or more NSD attorneys engaged in national security litigations related to counterterrorism and counter-espionage matters including Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) related work.
- →Paralegal support and legal research assignments require significant knowledge of legislative and judicial decisions, opinions, determinations, and rulings of cases relevant to intelligence, terrorism, espionage and FISA issues.
- →Legal knowledge required is less than that represented by graduation from a recognized law school.
- →A Paralegal Specialist at full performance level will perform duties such as: Performing administrative support to assist attorneys with daily operations.
- →Designing user applications to meet specific automation needs.
- →Maintain familiarity with the section's processes including case tracking and reporting Monitoring pending cases to maintain timely submission of legal filings.
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
Job ID: 9266c4e7-cdc1-451c-a690-4027020342f7
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