Overview
Litigation Support Specialist Jobs in Columbia, South Carolina, USA at West 4th Strategy, LLC
The Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office – District of South Carolina is seeking a Litigation Support Specialist/Analyst with experience supporting attorneys and staff. In this role, you will support the Affirmative Civil Enforcement team by utilizing current litigation support techniques, software, and equipment to provide complex legal support and technical assistance on such electronic systems as Everlaw, Relativity, Eclipse, and OnCue.
Your responsibilities include advising case teams on best practices for the preparation of documents and how to best use litigation support technologies to support projects; assisting with productions of material both to and from external parties; training attorneys, paralegals, and other personnel on litigation applications; assisting in the organization and search of investigative materials; and championing the need to engage eDiscovery specialists in the early stages of cases.
This is a full-time opportunity. We can offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide technical advice on legal automation options, systems capabilities, and support services
Ensure procedures for electronic discovery and litigation support projects are consistently applied
Coordinate with AUSAs, investigators, federal agents, and legal support staff, the contractor
Consult with case teams to effectively develop and apply technical strategies, requirements, and goals
Implement project plans, including data collection, processing, document review, document production and trial
Use tools to gather, track, process, review, organize, and produce case information in a defensible manner
Advise legal team on technology options to respond to specific discovery needs
Stay abreast of emerging electronic discovery litigation support technology and processes
Create case databases for processing electronically stored information (ESI), case review, and trial presentations
Recommended best practices and procedures for collecting and searching electronically stored information
Retrieve information through processing ESIs, scanning, indexing, and producing documents into a database
Ensure documents are organized for efficient electronic storage and retrieval by processing ESIs
Define deduplication scope, quality control, and prepare appropriate indices
Ensure tech is responsive to the attorney and case needs and that it represents the best methodology
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
Operate PCs, laptops, printers, plotters, HDMI TVs and DVD/Blu-ray players, and eDiscovery processing
MS Office and Adobe Acrobat Professional
Experience with litigation support software applications such as:
Everlaw, Relativity, Eclipse, OnCue, LAW, Nuix, etc.
Experience analyzing incoming electronic data to determine appropriate processing requirements
Experience with performing complex electronic data searches, managing the technical administration of document reviews, and producing data to outside parties using common litigation support platforms
Experience with IT/LS concepts, principles, methods, and practices, eDiscovery technology, Visual design concepts, Imaging technology
EDUCATION
3 years of experience in a litigation support, electronic discovery and/or technology support environment
LOCATION
Columbia, SC 29201
CLEARANCE
U.S. citizenship required since this role supports the U.S. federal government
CLIENT
Department of Justice, United States Attorney’s Office, District of South Carolina
Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology and Administrative
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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Title: Litigation Support Specialist
Company: West 4th Strategy, LLC
Location: Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Category: Law/Legal
