Senior Paralegal

Works under the direction of a Supervisory Legal Assistant to review files and documents for a variety of criminal or civil cases to become familiar with the issues and identify pertinent material.

• Seek out, develop, and obtain information to support investigations and litigation efforts through contact and correspondence with law enforcement personnel, officials from other governmental agencies, witnesses, and counsel.
• Utilize automated legal research tools, public information databases, and other electronic resources to conduct research on case- or program-specific legal matters and to support proceedings, including electronic discovery activities.
• Review incoming materials and independently determine appropriate processing and routing. 
• Obtain financial and statistical information for an analysis and evaluation of complaints and referrals regarding potential unlawful conduct. 
• Request, obtain, and review agency records, court records, and other public documents relevant to assigned cases.
• Secure required information from appropriate agencies and prepare draft legal documents for review and submission by the assigned AUSA.
• Read, annotate, and summarize documents, files, records, transcripts, and other materials contained within case files.
• Identify potential witnesses; attend witness interviews; and prepare written reports memorializing interviews.
• Prepare responsive documents and correspondence with limited instruction from the AUSA.
• Verify citations and legal authorities contained in legal documents using original and electronic resources, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency with source material.
• Scan, organize, and process materials gathered during investigations and discovery in coordination with the AUSA, and assist with providing discovery materials to opposing counsel in accordance with applicable rules and procedures.
• Establish and maintain case files and reference materials. Search legal reference files as needed; separate, screen, assemble, and organize records for disposition or transfer to records repositories in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Docket all assigned cases in the office’s case management system (CaseView) and ensure data accuracy and completeness.
• Review documents within litigation support databases, including but not limited to Relativity and Eclipse.
• Produce a variety of written documents and materials using office software applications, ensuring proper formatting and accuracy in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain MRPT facility credentials/authorization. Note: US Citizenship is required for MRPT facility credentials/authorization at this work location.
• Requires paralegal certificate, or currently attending an ABA-accredited law school, having completed at least one year of study.  One year of legal training or legal experience or at least two years of college education may be substituted for the paralegal certificate.
• Additionally, at least one year of litigation paralegal experience or project experience (as related to the task order) is required; trial experience very helpful
• Automated litigation support experience valued. Must have basic legal knowledge, including knowledge of standard legal citation to cite check legal motions and memorandum and must have sufficient experience with legal research tools such as LEXIS and Westlaw to perform basic legal research. 
• Requires excellent written and oral communication skills, thorough knowledge and hands-on familiarity with a variety of computer applications, including word processing, databases (such as document review and file management systems), spreadsheets, imaging, and hardware systems.  
• Role also requires basic familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources.
• Ability to consistently deliver highest quality work under extreme pressure will be very important.    

*Employees will earn H&W dollars per eligible hour (including vacation and holiday up to 40 hours/week). H&W monies are used to offset the employer’s cost of benefits the employee elects into and/or utilizes. Any remaining health and welfare monies after all applicable deductions would be cashed out to the employee on a 1 pay period lag.  

Service Contract Act (SCA) Compensation & Benefits:

This is an hourly, overtime-eligible position that falls under the Service Contract Act (SCA). In accordance with the Health and Welfare provisions of the SCA, and in addition to your base hourly rate, you may be eligible to receive an additional health and welfare payment for each hour you work to ensure compliance with the minimums set