Paralegal Specialist

Paralegal Specialist

As a Paralegal Specialist in the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, you will provide a wide range of legal support service to Assistant United States Attorney's involved in criminal prosecutions and grand jury investigations for federally cognizable cases. If selected for this position, you will receive formal and/or on-the-job training, as needed. Typical duties will include:

• Preparing a variety of substantive legal documents for criminal cases;
• Conducting interviews of agents and potential witnesses;
• Researching, analyzing and summarizing relevant legal precedents for applicability to assigned cases;
• Reviewing, preparing and maintaining documents and other materials produced during criminal trial;
• Providing a variety of legal assistance and technical work requiring specialized knowledge;
• Providing litigative case management and organizes cases for court presentation;
• Monitoring the progress of pending cases;
• Serving as the contact person for assigned cases;
• Compiling, organizing and indexing various discovery and evidence exhibits for trial;
• Providing advice to attorney's and other legal support staff; and
• Using one or more types of personal computer based software.

Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress. This position is considered a career ladder opportunity, with a full performance level of GS-11. If selected at a lower grade level, you may be non-competitively promoted to the next grade level at the discretion of your supervisor and is contingent upon meeting regulatory and legal requirements for promotion, satisfactory performance, and the availability of higher-level work. Promotion is not guaranteed, and no promise of promotion is implied.