Senior Paralegal

Supporting the Most Exciting and Meaningful Missions in the World

Provide a variety of direct paralegal services to assist AUSAs, including but not limited to the following:

• Seek information and locating new sources of information in aid of ACE investigations and litigation through contacts or correspondence with law enforcement as well as officials from other governmental agencies, witnesses, and counsel. Independently gather factual material. Read, annotating, and summarizing transcripts, files, and other aspects of the case file. Prepare case-summary binders. Obtain financial and statistical information.
• Obtain agency, court, and other public records. Analyze documents and drafting court filings and memoranda for AUSA review.
• Have working knowledge of, and experience with, federal and state court systems, civil litigation, civil discovery, legal research procedures and resources, and financial fraud investigations.
• Organize and manage a substantial quantity of records (often hundreds of thousands of pages of electronically stored evidence per case), documents, data, and discovery.
• Conduct financial analyses and related investigations of individuals and organizations to determine their ability to satisfy a judgment or settlement.
• Prepare subpoenas and reviewing, organizing, and summarizing large productions in response to such subpoenas.
• Review a wide variety of documents via various platforms (including using e-discovery tools).
• Prepare attorneys for, and assist with, trials and depositions.
• Review case related materials, analyze and summarize health care billing and treatment records for attorney use.
• Prepare discovery demands and organize, review, and analyze discovery responses.
• Prepare preliminary drafts of simple legal memoranda, documents, and correspondence for AUSA review and signature.
• Perform moderately complex legal research using various legal (e.g., Westlaw, LexisNexis, PACER) and law-enforcement (e.g., CLEAR and Accurint) tools.
• Create and manipulate Excel spreadsheets.
• Be proficient in a variety of computer applications, including word processing, databases (such as document review and file management systems), spreadsheets, imaging, and hardware systems (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel and Adobe).
• Hands-on familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources.
• Occasional travel may be necessary, relating to cases, special projects and/or for training.
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance.
• Must have a Paralegal Certificate and 5 years' experience in the legal environment.
• Must be able to work independently and as a part of a team.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills required.
• Requires experience conducting legal research and legal research tools.
• Requires hands-on familiarity with ESI tools.
• Requires hands-on familiarity with Windows Operating systems, Microsoft Word,
• Outlook and Excel, as well as government networks environments, internet and server-based database.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior legal experience is highly preferred.
• Undergraduate Degree is highly preferred.
  

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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