Paralegal

Supporting the Most Exciting and Meaningful Missions in the World

Works under the direction of Supervisory Paralegal or Project Supervisor. Performs the following tasks while complying with established procedures:

• Compiles, prepares, and summarizes relevant materials for use by attorneys in discovery and in preparation of motions, briefs and other legal documents; summarizes depositions and other transcripts.
• Maintains case files; performs simple legal research; indexes, tracks and controls document discovery (including documents produced and received in discovery).
• Indexes, tracks and exhibits and other materials at depositions and at trial.
• Prepares exhibit cross-references. Assists attorneys in courtroom.
• Reviews documents for relevance and privilege according to established guidelines and criteria.
  

Other examples of the types of work to be performed include compilation of documents for FOIA, production requests, Congressional inquiries, etc. Candidate will be working with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP) as an intake specialist for the Division of Litigation Technology & Analysis (DLTA) team. Duties in this role will include:

• Perform litigation support and eDiscovery tasks, including managing evidence received from case teams.
• Assigns and manages litigation support requests entered into the DLTA Request System.
• Conducts initial review of data received from case teams.
• Handles the intake of evidence, copying data, completing chain of custody forms, and entering data into the evidence management system.

Qualifications:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
• Must be able to perform detailed work consistently, accurately, and under pressure.
• Must be able to follow instructions.
• Must be able to understand task, task objectives, and the context of the task in the litigation support effort as a whole.
• Must take the initiative to ask questions when necessary to complete task correctly.
• Must have excellent communication skills.
• Must be knowledgeable user of office and network applications, such as work processing and databases. (We would train the individual on using our DLTA Request System and our evidence management system.)
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Litigation support experience valued.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.

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