Paralegal Specialist

Job Title

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Job Description

Please note: This is a term position not-to-exceed September 30, 2029, subject to availability of funds. This position MAY be extended, or made permanent, without further advertising. If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team that is responsible for providing routine legal support to Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) involved in criminal or civil prosecutions for federally cognizable cases. Typical work assignments will include:

• Performing research, evaluation and analysis of a variety of routine legal topics and points of law.
• Using multiple online legal systems, research references such as agency manuals, directives, issuances, court reports, appellate records or commercial legal publications to locate appropriate data such as applicable precedents, legislative history and commentaries which bear on legal issues.
• Determining which statutes, regulations, cases, procedures and/or policies need to be researched and assembled, prepares initial summary and makes recommendations as to appropriateness of data.
• Following established USAO precedents, drafts initial legal and administrative briefs, motions, oppositions to defense motions and correspondence for AUSA review.
• Drafting legal documents that identify the legal or factual issues in the case, locate precedents and develop legally supportable conclusions.
• Managing discovery and evidence in electronic and hard copy formats and may present the exhibits using trial presentation software in court.
• Preparing and organizing trial exhibits, documents, memoranda, reports and correspondence relating to cases for review by AUSAs.
• Selecting and interpreting the pertinent guidelines and policies that govern work assignments.

Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.