Lead Paralegal Specialist

Quick Facts

• Role: Lead Paralegal Specialist (civil rights litigation support)

Description

Lead a large paralegal team supporting complex, high-profile litigation by coaching staff, coordinating workstreams, balancing workloads, and monitoring both the quantity and quality of legal work product. Serve as the section’s expert on court rules, circuit-specific filing procedures, citation standards, and advanced litigation software, while maintaining specialized legal databases and legal resources. Independently manage complex case documentation, evidence, and exhibits, and produce professional legal correspondence, memoranda, and responses to high-level requests.

Responsibilities

• Communicate assignments, milestones, deadlines, and actionable issues to the team

• Coach paralegal specialists on court rules, filing procedures, and litigation software

• Distribute and balance workload; adapt workflows to compressed deadlines and multi-office edits

• Monitor and report work status, volume, and quality; ensure final documents follow Bluebook and the Office of the Solicitor General’s Style Manual

• Perform exhaustive legal and factual research and analysis (including legislative histories and precedent)

• Maintain and use specialized legal databases and resources to support litigation and program operations

• Develop, track, and process case documentation; manage supplemental investigations and monitor compliance with court orders, settlement agreements, and consent decrees

• Draft subpoenas and organize findings into structured courtroom exhibits

• Lead litigation support for the section’s largest and most complex cases across investigation, trial preparation, litigation, enforcement, and compliance

• Draft legal correspondence, memoranda, justifications, and responses such as FOIA requests and congressional inquiries using Microsoft Office/Adobe

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship

• Selective Service registration/exemption for eligible males

• Ability to complete required pre-employment security screening (including drug screening)

• Meet GS-12 specialized experience requirement: 1 year of experience equivalent to GS-11 in complex litigation support leadership and advanced legal research/analysis

• Resume must not exceed two pages

Benefits

A comprehensive U.S. government federal benefits package for eligible employees and their families (eligibility depends on the specific position type).