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Paralegal Specialist Jobs in Sacramento, USA at Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys/The Office of the U.S. Attorneys
Summary
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As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.
This position is also being announced to applicants eligible to apply through Merit Staffing procedures under 26-CAE–MS.
Salary contains multiple grades/steps. In most cases, the salary is set at the minimum salary for the grade applicant(s) is selected.
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Duties
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As a Paralegal Specialist 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. You will be assigned to the Civil Division in the Sacramento office. Duties will include, but are not limited to:
- Support Assistant U.S. Attorneys with immigration-related litigation to include defending habeas corpus, mandamus, and Administrative Procedure Act challenges, and prosecuting affirmative civil immigration enforcement actions.
- Perform extensive legal research into laws, legislative history, precedent setting cases, decisions, and opinions that may be applicable; especially pertaining to immigration cases.
- Create and manage physical and electronic case files for complex cases with voluminous discovery and evidence.
- Analyze documents, reports, and correspondence as well as prepare a wide variety of documents.
- Organize, index, summarize, and retrieve information from voluminous collections of discovery materials and trial exhibits (in both paper and digital formats).
- Present digital exhibits and visual materials at trial using most advanced trial presentation software available.
- Assist Assistant U.S. Attorneys in preparing civil cases for trial.
Initially, litigation casework will consist predominantly or exclusively of immigration matters. However, as workload and office needs allow, there may be opportunities to work on or transition to non-immigration civil practice areas, such as Defense and/or Affirmative Civil Enforcement.
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Conditions of employment
- You must be a U.S. 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
Note: In order to be considered “qualified” for this position, your specialized experience must be described in your resume. Please be sure that your resume clearly states any and all of the specialized experience that you may have. If your specialized experience is not clearly detailed in your resume, you will not be considered for this position.
GS-9: To be eligible at the GS-9 level, you must have at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 grade level in the Federal service as defined below
; or Master’s or equivalent graduate degree if in a related field (e.g., criminal justice, law)
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, two full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree,
or an LL.B or J.D. if in a related field (e.g., criminal justice, law);
or a combination of both specialized experience and education as explained below.
Specialized Experience is defined as experience performing paralegal or legal work which demonstrates a basic knowledge of legal research and the ability to interpret legal decisions. Examples of specialized experience may include the following: examining and processing a variety of legal documents; conducting research, analysis and evaluation of data in response to complex or sensitive requests; drafting briefs, pleadings, litigation recommendations, or other legal documents and correspondence;
using a variety of electronic or manual filing systems to acquire and store information; document findings and preparing recommendations; searching and reviewing legal references, case files, and other sources for information and data required by attorneys or court personnel.
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 hours (or your school’s definition of one year of graduate study), then divide the total number of your excess graduate semester hours by 18 (or your school’s definition of one year of graduate study).
To calculate your percentage of specialized experience, divide the total number of months of qualifying experience by 12. Now, add the two percentages together. The sum of the percentages must…
Title: Paralegal Specialist
Company: Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys/The Office of the U.S. Attorneys
Location: Sacramento, USA
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