Legal Assistant (Document Management Analyst II)

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A Department of Justice unit is seeking Legal Assistants to support work with high profile criminal cases. This position will work hand-in-hand with Assistant United States Attorneys and Federal courts. Hires will receive on-the-job paralegal training. No prior paralegal experience required. Primary duties include:

• Support the case team will track data delivered to the case team to ensure that it is placed into the appropriate processing workflow.
• Serve as first level reviewers, identifying materials that are potentially privileged for second level review by law clerks and/or members of the government filter review team.
• Performs database searches, exports reports, and other data retrieval assignments using established network databases including Westlaw, Lexis, Relativity, and CaseView.
• Performs moderately complex litigation support tasks, including discovery productions, detailed review and analysis of case materials in a broad range of subject matters.
• Supports investigative and trial teams by preparing subpoenas, uploading/organizing subpoena returns, preparing discovery and assisting in discovery productions, and creating trial exhibits.
• Drafts documents for accomplishing litigation support assignments.
• Proofreads and edits deliverable products, and enters data into case management systems.
• Prepares documents for scanning, performs other document collection related activities, including OCRing documents, redacting and labeling of files.
• Prepares and submits legal pleadings, forms, reports, correspondence, and other documents within established deadlines.
• Completes detailed indexing of case files, creates witness binders, and prepares deposition and trial exhibits.
• Creating logs for subpoena returns and discovery purposes.
• Drafts legal documents for attorneys’ review, including but not limited to motions and responses to defense pleadings; m. Reviews and edits drafts of substantive legal documents drafted by attorneys, and other support staff members; and n. Performs basic legal research for the attorneys including cite checking.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance.
• Three years of experience on major litigation support projects or undergraduate degree.
• Certain assignments may require experience or substantial undergraduate coursework in, for example, finance/accounting, health care, or substantial experience in the legal environment or in information technology.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently in a team environment.
• Must have excellent writing skills and oral communication capabilities.
• Requires hands-on familiarity with the Government's office and network environment, including but not limited to, data processing environments, including office automation networks, PC-based databases and other applications, internet and server-based databases and other applications, such as Oracle, Relativity or other document review platform, Trial Director, etc.
• Should be a knowledgeable user of the Government's office and network environment, including but not limited to, word processing, spreadsheet, imaging, and hardware systems.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources preferred. Prior experience with criminal litigation support is highly desired.

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