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Paralegal III

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Paralegal III

Employment Type: Full-Time

Department: Legal

CGS is seeking an experienced Litigation Paralegal to join a fast-moving, extremely active in-house government legal team.  This position is a key role related to supporting various aspects of the company's litigation portfolio including eDiscovery activities, workflow management, and attorney support.

CGS brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve the government’s most dynamic problems with cutting-edge technology. To carry out our mission, we are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.

Skills and attributes for success:

  • Prepares a variety of technical legal documents that are characteristically complex in format. 

  • Reviews incoming documents and material, considers the nature and the status of the case involved.

  • Prepares indictments, arrest warrants, summonses, true bills, motions, orders, non-disclosure applications, and orders, stipulations, plea agreements, grand jury and trial subpoenas, and legal memoranda.

  • Obtains required information from criminal case files, law enforcement agencies, or other sources, to include in legal documents before submitting to the appropriate AUSA for review. 

  • Ensures when preparing recurring legal documents that they conform to local court rules and the rules governing style and format.

  • Assists attorneys in preparing for trial by independently compiling trial and witness notebooks, preparing and organizing trial exhibits, assembling jury instructions, and compiling witness and exhibit lists. 

  • Coordinates with the victim/witness specialist to ensure adherence to current Departmental guidelines relating to victims’ rights and services responsibilities. 

  • Notifies case agents and appropriate office staff of victim/witness issues.

  • Using original and online legal resources including Westlaw and/or Lexis/Nexis, verifies legal citations and statutory references contained in legal documents.

  • Research to confirm that citations are accurate, complete, and consistent with source material. 

  • Proofreads, edits, and revises legal briefs. 

  • Electronically files legal documents with the U.S. District Court using the CM/ECF system.

  • Develops and organizes tables of contents and indices to briefs in accordance with established format. 

  • Lists cited cases, opinions, and miscellaneous references in briefs.

  • Composes original correspondence which requires a good working knowledge of legal procedures and specialized terminology 

  • Transmitting proposed orders to the court.

  • Requesting extensions of time in certain cases.

  • Advising of actions taken or developments in cases referred by other federal departments and agencies.

  • Notifying attorneys representing defendants of various issues.

  • Scans/inputs and links case-related materials into electronic discovery databases and manages those databases. 

  • Uploads/downloads into those discovery databases documents and materials received from local, state, and federal law enforcement partners consisting of investigative and forensic reports, bank records, electronic communication records, and audio and video files provided in varying file formats. 

  • Manages discovery processing and production. 

  • Proficiently bates-stamps and redacts discovery materials using Adobe Acrobat and may employ discovery processing techniques using IPRO Eclipse. 

  • Sends continuing discovery to defense counsel as directed by the assigned AUSA.

  • Maintains the electronic case files, enters data in the case management system, calendars deadlines using MS Outlook, prepares and files conflict of interest and case opening forms in the electronic case file.

Vacancy posted more than 2 months ago
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