Legal Administrative Specialist

Quick Facts

• Role: Legal Administrative Specialist (litigation support and legal automation)

Description

Provide technical and analytical support to litigation teams. Assist with legal automation requirements, organizing large volumes of case information for retrieval (scanning, indexing, and database control), and preparing computerized trial presentation programs including audio/video editing. Use appropriate software tools to present complex and voluminous evidence and produce graphic demonstrative evidence.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical advice to litigation teams on legal automation requirements and system capabilities

• Analyze litigation support requirements and recommend strategies to meet litigation needs

• Organize voluminous case information for efficient retrieval using automated methods (scanning, indexing, database document control)

• Prepare computerized trial presentation programs; perform audio/video editing

• Use software packages for database, spreadsheet, and word processing, and discovery processing tools (e.g., Trial Director, Eclipse, NUIX or equivalent) to meet user and evidence presentation needs

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship or U.S. National

• Satisfactory pre-employment adjudication: fingerprint, credit, tax checks, and drug testing

• Continued employment requires favorable adjudication of a background investigation

• If male applicant born after Dec 31, 1959: certify Selective Service registration or exemption

• May be required to complete a one-year probationary period

• Must meet qualification and eligibility requirements within 30 days after the closing date

Qualifications

• GS-07: at least one year specialized experience equivalent to GS-05 in routine litigation support (organizing case information, preparing discovery productions including scanning/coding, creating DVDs, preparing exhibits, using technology to organize digital evidence, editing legal documents) OR one year graduate education in a related field OR a qualifying combination OR superior academic achievement with a bachelor’s degree (or completion within 9 months) plus specified criteria

• GS-09: one year specialized experience equivalent to GS-07 (trial preparation support, recommendations for trial presentations, using office automation tools for physical/digital trial presentations, working with investigators/agents/support staff, handling evidence and discovery, providing technical assistance) OR master’s degree OR two years of progressively higher-level graduate education OR LL.B./J.D. in a related field OR a qualifying combination (graduate education exceeding one full year)

Benefits

• Comprehensive federal benefits package including paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, telework, life insurance, health benefits, and participation in the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS)

• Recruitment or relocation incentive may be considered based on qualifications (relocation expenses not authorized)