Paralegal
CGS Federal (Contact Government Services)
Senior Paralegal
CGS Federal (Contact Government Services)
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $50,000 - $65,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Support various aspects of the company's litigation portfolio including eDiscovery activities, workflow management, and attorney support.
- Prepares a variety of technical legal documents that are characteristically complex in format.
- Reviews incoming documents and material, considers the nature and the status of the case involved.
- Prepares indictments, arrest warrants, summonses, true bills, motions, orders, non-disclosure applications, stipulations, plea agreements, grand jury and trial subpoenas, and legal memoranda.
- Obtains required information from criminal case files, law enforcement agencies, or other sources to include in legal documents before submitting to the appropriate AUSA for review.
- Ensures recurring legal documents conform to local court rules and rules governing style and format.
- Assists attorneys in preparing for trial by independently compiling trial and witness notebooks, preparing and organizing trial exhibits, assembling jury instructions, and compiling witness and exhibit lists.
- Coordinates with the victim/witness specialist to ensure adherence to Departmental guidelines relating to victims’ rights and services responsibilities.
- Notifies case agents and appropriate office staff of victim/witness issues.
- Verifies legal citations and statutory references using Westlaw and/or Lexis/Nexis and researches to confirm accuracy.
- Proofreads, edits, and revises legal briefs; develops and organizes tables of contents and indices to briefs.
- Electronically files legal documents with the U.S. District Court using the CM/ECF system and transmits proposed orders to the court.
- Scans/inputs and links case-related materials into electronic discovery databases and manages those databases; uploads/downloads documents and materials from law enforcement partners.
- Manages discovery processing and production, sends continuing discovery to defense counsel as directed by the assigned AUSA.
- Maintains electronic case files, enters data in the case management system, calendars deadlines using MS Outlook, and prepares and files conflict of interest and case opening forms.
Requirements
- Requires paralegal certificate, or JD, or currently attending an ABA-accredited law school, having completed at least one year of study.
- At least two years of litigation paralegal experience is required; trial experience is very helpful.
- At least one year of experience in automated litigation support.
- Requires sound working knowledge of federal and state court systems, legal research procedures, and legal research resources.
- Requires excellent written and oral communication skills and thorough knowledge of legal research tools such as LEXIS and Westlaw.
- Must have 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 hands-on familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources.
- Proficiently bates-stamps and redacts discovery materials using Adobe Acrobat and may employ discovery processing techniques using IPRO Eclipse.
- The ability to consistently deliver the highest quality work under extreme pressure will be very important.
Benefits
- Health, Dental, and Vision
- Life Insurance
- 401k
- Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
- Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
litigation paralegal experienceeDiscoverylegal document preparationlegal researchBates stampingredactiontrial preparationcase managementdocument reviewdiscovery processing
Soft skills
excellent written communicationexcellent oral communicationability to work under pressureorganizational skillsattention to detail
Certifications
paralegal certificateJDABA-accredited law school