Legal Administrative Specialist (Litigation Support)

Job Title

Litigation Support Specialist

Job Description

If selected for this position, you will join a litigation support team that is responsible for providing a wide range of automated litigation and legal support services to Assistant United States Attorneys involved in criminal and civil prosecutions, necessary to prepare or manage electronic discovery, evidence, exhibits, and other electronically stored information (ESI) relevant to investigations and casework, using a variety of methods and software applications. The position is located in the United States Attorney's Office (USAO) for the Western District of Kentucky in Louisville, Kentucky. Duties include (but are not limited to):

• Performing a variety of litigation support duties necessary to process complex and/or voluminous electronically stored information (ESI) and prepare it for review or production by the case team.
• Identifying software packages such as databases, spreadsheets, word processing and eDiscovery processing applications for preparing and organizing discovery.
• Building and maintaining document review databases for case team use.
• Preparing photo boards, maps, charts and other demonstrative exhibits required for litigation.
• Assuring courtroom presentation systems are in place and operational in courtrooms and grand jury sessions.
• Providing assistance in training attorneys and legal support staff in organizing voluminous case information for efficient retrieval through automated means such as scanning, indexing and controlling of documents into a database.

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