Hmong Document Reviewer

About the role

As a Hmong Chinese Document Reviewer, you will play a key role in supporting various aspects of the company's litigation portfolio, including eDiscovery activities, workflow management, and litigation support. CGS is seeking an experienced Hmong Chinese Reviewer to join a fast-paced and active in-house legal team. The role involves working with motivated, highly skilled, and creative professionals to solve government’s dynamic problems using cutting-edge technology.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research and draft responses for a variety of post-conviction motions.
• Conduct research and draft memorandums on questions of law for direct appeals pending before the court and pretrial motions for criminal cases pending at the Federal Court.
• Examine, prepare, and process a wide variety of technical legal documents that are voluminous and complex in format.
• Review incoming materials and determine the need for assembly and preparation of legal documents such as motions, orders, answers, pleadings, and subpoenas.
• Obtain needed information from case files, law enforcement agencies, civil client agencies, or other sources, and submit completed legal documents to the appropriate client assistant attorney for review and approval.
• Prepare legal actions including indictments, complaints, search warrants, judgments, applications, notices, affidavits, summonses, subpoenas, rules to show cause, proofs of claim, motions for summary judgment, dismissals, and satisfactions of judgment.
• Ensure legal documents conform to rules governing style and format.
• Assist client attorneys in preparing trial notebooks, assembling jury instructions, and compiling witness and exhibit lists.
• Prepare discovery for plaintiffs and/or defendants in accordance with governing rules and regulations and with the approval of the assigned attorneys.
• Use original and online legal resources to verify citations and statutory references contained in legal documents and ensure citations are complete and consistent with source material.
• Compose original letters requiring a good working knowledge of legal and administrative procedures and terminology.
• Produce a variety of written documents and materials utilizing office software applications, including integrating output from different software types (e.g., tables, charts, graphs) into word processing or desktop publishing text.
• Establish and maintain a variety of files for client assistant attorneys, search legal reference files for needed information, and assemble exhibits, affidavits, and other legal documents from file material.
• Organize files and records material for disposition or transfer to records depositories in accordance with established procedures.

Requirements

• Three to five years of progressively more responsible experience on litigation support projects, including proven capabilities and communication skills to successfully interact with clients and attorneys.
• Sound working knowledge of federal and state court systems, legal research procedures, and legal research resources.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and thorough knowledge of legal research tools such as LEXIS and Westlaw.
• Hands-on familiarity with a variety of computer applications, including word processing, databases (such as document review and file management systems), spreadsheets, and imaging.
• Hands-on familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources.

Qualifications

• Law Degree.

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance.
• Life Insurance.
• 401k retirement plan.
• Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter).
• Paid Time Off and observance of State/Federal Holidays.

Pay

$60 - $75 an hour.