Senior Paralegal

Senior Paralegal

Provide a variety of direct paralegal services to assist AUSAs, including but not limited to the following:

• Seek information and locate new sources of information in aid of ACE investigations and litigation through contacts or correspondence with law enforcement as well as officials from other governmental agencies, witnesses and counsel.
• Independently gather factual material.
• Read, annotate, and summarize transcripts, files, and other aspects of the case file.
• Prepare case-summary binders.
• Obtain financial and statistical information.
• Obtain agency, court, and other public records.
• Analyze documents, draft court filings and prepare preliminary drafts of memoranda, documents, and correspondence for AUSA review and signature.
• Have working knowledge of, and experience with, federal and state court systems, civil litigation, civil discovery, legal research procedures and resources, and financial fraud investigations.
• Organize and manage a substantial quantity of records (often hundreds of thousands of pages of electronically stored evidence per case), documents, data, and discovery.
• Conduct financial analyses and related review of individuals and organizations to determine their ability to satisfy a judgment or settlement.
• Prepare subpoenas and review, organize, and summarize large productions in response to such subpoenas.
• Review a wide variety of documents via various platforms (including using e-discovery tools).
• Prepare attorneys for, and assist with, trials and depositions.
• Review case related materials. Analyze and summarize health care billing and treatment records for attorney use.
• Prepare discovery demands and organize, review, and analyze discovery responses.
• Provide automated litigation support to attorneys in trial preparation, depositions, and courtroom presentations. Use various software applications and graphics hardware such as scanners and plotters. Prepare documents, charts, and visual materials for use in trials. Provide technical support (e.g., enlarging charts and photographs, duplicating tapes and videos, and marking exhibits).
• Perform moderately complex legal research using various legal (e.g., Westlaw, LexisNexis, PACER) and law-enforcement (e.g., CLEAR and Accurint) tools.
• Create and manipulate Excel spreadsheets.
• Occasional travel may be necessary, relating to cases, special projects and/or for training.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain Moderate Risk Public Trust (MRPT) facility credentials/authorization. Note: US Citizenship is required for MRPT facility credentials/authorization at this work location.
• Requires paralegal certificate, or JD, or currently attending an ABA-accredited law school, having completed at least one year of study, or an equivalent level of legal training or experience; or an equivalent level of education may be substituted.
• Must have three (3) years of experience with litigation support projects or undergraduate degree; coursework in legal related studies helpful.
• Must be proficient in a variety of computer applications, including word processing, databases (such as document review and file management systems), spreadsheets, imaging, and hardware systems (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel and Adobe).
• Must have hands-on familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources.
• Must be able to work independently and as a part of a team.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills required.
• Requires hands-on familiarity with Windows Operating systems, Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel, as well as government networks environments, internet and server-based database.
• Applicant must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills are required.
• Must be able to work in an office setting where some walking, siting, standing, bending and carrying of small office items is required.
• Must be comfortable working in an office setting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Trial experience very helpful.
• Prior experience with working in a legal office setting is highly preferred.
• Experience with data entry, calendar management and docketing helpful.

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