LEGAL ADMINISTRATIVE SPECIALIST

About the role

The Legal Support Division team is responsible for providing a variety of legal, administrative, and technical support services to the Criminal and Civil Divisions within the District of Wyoming.

Responsibilities

• Assisting Criminal and Civil attorneys on legal automation requirements and systems capabilities to facilitate litigation decisions, trial preparation, and trial presentations.
• Using various software applications technologies, such as Everlaw, OnCue, Adobe, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. to collect, organize, analyze, and present information.
• Managing, organizing, reviewing, and summarizing incoming and outgoing discovery in electronic or other formats in compliance with the Federal Rules of Criminal and/or Civil Procedure.
• Providing legal and administrative support directly or indirectly to multiple attorneys to include maintaining calendars, tracking filings, hearings, deadlines, conferences, and interviews.
• Ensuring that legal pleadings, forms, reports, correspondence, and other documents are prepared and submitted within established deadlines.
• Preparing draft pleadings, stipulations, motions, tables of authorities, tables of contents, and other legal documents.
• Proofreading and cite-checking legal briefs, memoranda, and other legal documents.
• Maintaining files, logs, complaints, transcripts, reports, and other confidential records.
• Assuring computers and other electronic equipment is in place and operational in courtrooms, grand jury proceedings, and office presentations.

Requirements

To be eligible at the GS-07 level, you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions, as defined below:

• Specialized Experience: Performing routine litigation support assignments such as assisting with organizing case information (i.e., scanning and creating CDs); organizing case documents for trial such as exhibits and compiling witness and/or exhibit lists; assisting in the use of technology such as preparing discovery or organizing digital evidence; conducting research, analysis and evaluation of data in response to requests; maintaining a calendar of assigned active cases such as filing, hearing, and/or trial dates; and preparing a variety of legal documents.
• Education: One (1) full year of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a degree in a related field (e.g., Legal Studies, Law, Criminal Justice).
• Combination of Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed graduate education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements.
• Superior Academic Achievement: Possess a Bachelor's Degree or expect to complete the requirements for a Bachelor's degree within the next 9 months AND possess at least one of the following criteria: (1) Class standing- in the upper third of the graduating class in the college or university. (2) Grade-point average (G.P.A.) - have a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or better) as recorded on official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of education, or as computed based on courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum; or 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B+" or better) based on the average of the required courses completed in the major field or the required courses in the major field completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum. (3) Election to membership in a national scholastic honor society - Applicants can be considered eligible based on membership in one of the national scholastic honor societies. These honor societies are listed by the Association of College Honor Societies.

Qualifications

To be eligible at the GS-09 level, you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions, as defined below:

• Specialized Experience: Performing routine litigation support assignments such as maintaining accurate and current records regarding incoming electronic case materials; assisting attorneys in preparing for court such as preparing subpoenas, exhibits, compiling trial notebooks, compiling witness and/or exhibit lists, and/or preparing computerized trial presentations; verifying citations; conducting research, analysis and evaluation of data in response to requests; using automated legal research tools such as Everlaw, OnCue, as well as public information databases to perform basic research of case-specific legal matters; and preparing, drafting/or editing a variety of legal documents.
• Education: Master's Degree or equivalent graduate degree in a related field (e.g., Legal Studies, Law, Criminal Justice); or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; or LL.B. or J.D., if related.
• Combination of Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed graduate education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements. In order to qualify based on a combination, graduate education must be in excess of 1 full year.

Benefits

The Department of Justice offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes, in part, paid vacation; sick leave; holidays; telework; life insurance; health benefits; and participation in the Federal Employees Retirement System.