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Duties:
If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected Legal Support team that is responsibile for providing a variety of legal, administrative and technical support services to the Criminal Division within the District of Nevada. The duties of this position include:
- Conducts factual research and non-complex research of legislation, statutes, regulations, and court cases.
- Using various software applications technologies, such as Everlaw, Case View, Adobe, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. to collect, organize, analyze, and present information.
- Managing, organizing, reviewing, and summarizing incoming and outgoing discovery in electronic or other formats in compliance with the Federal Rules of Criminal and/or Civil Procedure.
- Provides administrative support for assigned cases. This includes but is not limited to entering information into case management systems; maintaining calendar of assigned active cases; and managing case-related documents.
- Ensuring that legal pleadings, forms, reports, correspondence, and other documents are prepared and submitted within established deadlines.
- Preparing draft pleadings, stipulations, motions, tables of authorities, tables of contents, and other legal documents.
- Proofreading and cite-checking legal briefs, memoranda, and other legal documents.
Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.
Qualifications:
GS-09: To be eligible at the GS-09 level, you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions, as defined below: Specialized Experience, Education, OR a combination of Education and Experience.
- Specialized Experience: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 level. Specialized experience is defined as performing the following: (1) performing a variety of automated support necessary in preparing, organizing, indexing, developing, managing, and tracking exhibits, evidence and data relevant to cases presentation (2) assisting attorneys with trial preparation, including making recommendations on how to proceed with trial presentations; (3) utilizing office automation tools in order to create physical and digital trial presentations, working with investigators, agents, and legal support staff; handling a wide variety of evidence and discovery; (4) providing technical assistance to litigation teams, and utilizing various software applications to provide automated litigation assistance to attorneys in trial preparation and courtroom presentations; (5) performing general administrative support duties; (6) and conducting factual legal research and non-complex research of legislation, statutes, regulations, and court cases.
- Education: One of the following types of education in a closely related field (e.g., Criminal Justice, Law, Information Technology) Master's or equivalent graduate degree or two full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree.
- Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed graduate education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements. In order to qualify based on a combination, graduate education must be in excess of 1 full year.
Pay: $61,965.00 - $81,964.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
