Paralegal (Top Secret Clearance Required)

About the role

The Contractor shall provide professional, accurate, timely, and reliable paralegal support reporting to the OGC and will be detailed to assist LITB or IALB. Work products are reviewed prior to submission; however, personnel resources provided by Contractor shall often develop these products with minimal direct supervision other than written guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Receive, prioritize, and process requests such as document review or requests for advice or legal technical assistance
• Research and locate responsive information documents and identify relevant laws, judicial decisions, and legal articles
• Perform typical Paralegal functions, including: moderately complex legal research; synopsizing transcripts of hearings and oral arguments for attorney use; reviewing case related materials; and identifying potentially conflicting statements or areas requiring further investigation
• Write preliminary drafts of legal memoranda and correspondence
• Aid in preparing draft legal documents, such as motions, briefs, memoranda of law, exhibits, etc.
• Conduct legal analysis, review documents for relevance and privilege; and assist attorneys with all phases of litigation
• Review materials in discovery for relevancy and privilege
• Prepare privilege logs
• Maintain documentation of records produced in discovery, correspondence sent, and case management functions performed
• Assist in the drafting and issuing of preservation notices and litigation holds
• Design, generate, and transmit reports regarding case assignments and productivity using case management databases
• Research, locate, and gather material relevant to DU requests including conducting outreach and informal interviews to respond to discovery requests and interrogatories
• Aid in preparation of declarations
• Scan paper materials to save as an image file (e.g., .PDF)
• Conduct legal privilege reviews using Veritas eDiscovery Platform, Adobe Pro, or other discovery review platforms provided by the FBI
• Analyze and interpret requests from customers
• Support and collaborate the management efforts to foster teamwork, planning and decision making
• Organize and maintain accurate records of assigned requests
• Prepare electronic and/or paper releases for release to customers
• Provide a high degree of professionalism and customer service in all interactions with DU customers
• Prioritize and schedule projects to accomplish objectives
• Assist in representation efforts of the FBI in challenging situations
• Coordinate classification reviews with subject matter experts and shall perform overlays of material returned from classification review
• Maintain close collaboration of projects with discovery team members
• Serve as consultant to Government employees regarding privilege application and document production
• Communicate with employees at all levels of the FBI to complete projects with a high degree of professionalism
• Provide weekly statuses to management and periodic updates to Assistant General Counsels and other DU customers
• Conduct searches of FBI systems and databases to retrieve relevant documents or files (e.g., Sentinel, Internal Policy Office Policy Library and Policy Archives)
• Perform legal and other research, provide support to the Legal Hold program as well as the Freeze List, and support tasks associated with information management/governance as well as technology and its intersection with the law to name a few

Qualifications

• Requires paralegal certificate, or JD, or currently attending an ABA-accredited law school, having completed at least one year of study
• At least two years of litigation paralegal experience is required; trial experience is very helpful
• At least one year of experience in automated litigation support
• Requires sound working knowledge of federal and state court systems, legal research procedures, and legal research resources
• Requires excellent written and oral communication skills and thorough knowledge of legal research tools such as LEXIS and Westlaw
• Must have hands-on familiarity with a variety of computer applications, including word processing, databases (such as document review and file management systems), spreadsheets, imaging, and hardware systems

Skills

• Ability to consistently deliver the highest quality work under extreme pressure will be very important

Benefits

Role also requires hands-on familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources

Pay

Not specified

Schedule

Not specified