Overview
Legal Administrative Specialist; Litigation Support Jobs in New Haven, USA at Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys/The Office of the U.S. Attorneys
Position: Legal Administrative Specialist (Litigation Support)
Summary
For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys’ Offices, visit (Use the “Apply for this Job” box below)./
As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.
This position is also being announced under Merit Promotion Procedures under: 26-CT–MS
Learn more about this agency
Duties
Help
As a Legal Administrative Specialist (Litigation Support) in the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO), you will join a well-respected team that is responsible for providing a variety of legal support services to the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut. Your duties will include, but are not limited to:
- Providing technical advice to litigation teams on legal automation requirements and systems capabilities to facilitate litigation decisions, trial preparation and trial presentation.
- Analyzing litigation support requirements to develop or recommend appropriate strategies to meet litigation needs. Recommending alternative methods and promoting the use of automated approaches as well as visual means of proof.
- Preparing computerized trial presentation programs by using and appropriately employing a variety of software packages including database, spreadsheet and word processing applications such as:
Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, OnCue, Camtasia, Beyond Compare, Eclipse, Time Map, Case Map, Ever Law, etc., based on which software would be most effective for presentation of complex and voluminous evidence or to production of graphic demonstrative evidence, as well as meeting individual user needs. - Performing tasks associated with the organization, preparation, delivery, and tracking of discovery in cases involving large volumes of documentary and/or digital evidence.
- Researching, analyzing, and summarizing relevant legal precedents for applicability to assigned cases as appropriate.
- Preparing and maintaining a variety of trial-related documents, e.g., discovery letters, exhibit lists, jury instructions, trial subpoenas, etc., by applying a thorough knowledge of the Federal Rules of Evidence and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and applying practical litigative experience.
Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.
Requirements
Help
Conditions of employment
- You must be a United States Citizen or National.
- Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation
- You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.
- If selected, you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
- You must meet all qualification requirements upon the closing date of this announcement.
Qualifications
GS-09: To be eligible at the GS-09 level, you must have at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in the Federal service as defined below
; or two full years of progressively higher level graduate education or master’s degree in a related field (e.g., Information Technology, Computer Science, Law, Criminal Justice) or an equivalent graduate degree such as an LL.B or J.D.;
or a combination of both specialized experience and education as explained below.
Specialized Experience involves performing the following types of duties: performing routine litigation support assignments such as working in automated legal databases; performing routine and recurring litigation support assignments (e.g., preparing computerized trial presentations or exhibits, and indexing documents into a database); providing assistance to litigation support customers; and preparing a variety of legal and trial related documents.
A combination of experience and graduate level education can be used if, when combined, are equivalent to 100% of the qualification requirement. Only graduate level education in excess of the first full year can be used in this calculation. To calculate your percentage of graduate education, first determine the total number of graduate level hours that exceed 18 semester…
Title: Legal Administrative Specialist; Litigation Support
Company: Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys/The Office of the U.S. Attorneys
Location: New Haven, USA
Category:
