Legal Administrative Specialist

Case Manager Responsibilities

If selected, you will serve as a Case Manager for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington. You will be responsible for providing a wide range of legal and administrative support services to multiple attorneys in various criminal matters. At the full performance level, duties will include (but are not limited to):

• Serving as the primary support specialist responsible for managing discovery in a variety of criminal matters, to include coordinating with agency partners to collect materials, reviewing incoming materials in a variety of paper and electronic formats to assess responsiveness, organizing voluminous materials for efficient review by the case team, preparing materials for production, and maintaining detailed indices of materials received and produced;
• Drawing upon knowledge of the facts and legal issues in an assigned case and using various functions of document review software tools to organize and review discovery materials;
• Assisting attorneys with hearing and trial preparation, and during live court proceedings, to include maintaining witness lists and schedules, drafting subpoenas, preparing, assembling and managing exhibits, and operating trial presentation software in the courtroom;
• Conducting legal and factual research in legal and non-legal databases in support of criminal cases, and evaluating the need for and drafting a variety of legal documents such as routine motions, proposed orders, non-disclosure orders, extensions of deadlines, and notices that require good working knowledge of legal procedures and specialized terminology;
• Providing administrative support as assigned, to include, independently entering and updating case management software, closing paper and electronic case files, procuring transcripts, expert witness contracts, and other case activities requiring budget approval, scheduling case meetings and witness interviews, calculating and tracking deadlines for legal filings, and electronically filing pleadings with the court via email or PACER; and,
• Proofreading and editing legal briefs, including verifying citations to law and facts against original sources, and conducting further research as needed.

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