Legal Administrative Specialist (Litigation Support)

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. Duties include providing guidance on strategies and appropriate software tools, designing and building document review databases, generating electronic discovery productions, and providing technical assistance and customer support.

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 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.
• Design, build, and maintain document review databases, consulting with litigation teams to understand case needs and technical requirements, and designing document review databases to best suit those needs.
• Provide guidance and training teams on database functions.
• 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

• Specialized experience, education, or a combination thereof as outlined in the qualifications section.
• U.S. Citizenship or Nationality.
• Pre-employment adjudication, including fingerprint, credit, and tax checks, and drug testing.
• Continued employment subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation.
• Completion of a one-year probationary period.

Qualifications

• GS-7: Specialized experience, education, or a combination thereof as outlined in the qualifications section.
• GS-9: Specialized experience, education, or a combination thereof as outlined in the qualifications section.

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.

Pay

Details on pay scales are available at the Office of Personnel Management website.

Schedule

Details on working hours and schedules are available at the Office of Personnel Management website.