Legal Administrative Specialist (e-Litigation Technician)

About the role

This position supports civil and criminal litigation teams by performing litigation support duties necessary to process electronic discovery and prepare it for review and production.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance to litigation teams on strategies and appropriate software tools for effectively organizing, storing, preserving, collecting, processing, reviewing, producing, and presenting electronic case materials.
• Use specialized software applications and specialized computer systems to perform processing on various types of electronically stored information for purposes of discovery, consulting with litigation teams to understand case needs and technical requirements to develop a processing plan to best suit those needs.
• Design, build, and maintain document review databases, including creating, modifying, importing, and exporting load files, consulting with litigation teams to understand case needs and technical requirements, and designing document review databases to best suit those needs.
• Generate electronic discovery productions (e.g., Bates-numbered images and searchable text or industry standard load files) that comply with court orders and meet the technical needs of litigation teams.
• Provide technical assistance to litigation teams presenting or filing electronic evidence or exhibits in legal proceedings, including creating electronic versions of exhibits, loading exhibits into courtroom presentation software, setting up courtroom presentation equipment, and assisting with the creation of demonstrative exhibits and audio or video clips.
• Provide customer support services, including troubleshooting, user assistance, and training, to litigation teams relating to their use of litigation support software applications.

Requirements

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.

Qualifications

• GS-9: To be eligible at the GS-9 level, you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions, as defined below: Specialized Experience, Education, OR a combination of Education and Experience.
• Specialized Experience: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 level in the Federal service or equivalent paid/nonpaid experience in the private or public sector.
• Specialized Experience is defined as experience, working under supervision and guidance, performing routine litigation support assignments in support of discovery, which require a basic knowledge of processing, review, and/or production of commonly found electronically stored information (ESI).
• Education: One of the following types of education in a related field (e.g., Criminal Justice, Paralegal Sciences, Law): a Master's or equivalent graduate degree (such as an LL.B.); OR 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree. Education at the graduate level must be in an accredited college or university and must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the duties of the position.
• Combining 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.