Senior FOIA Legal Specialist

About the Role

M2 Strategy is seeking a highly motivated Senior FOIA Legal Specialist to join our firm and support our government clients, commercial clients, and leadership. Our projects are high-profile, fast-paced, and complex and provide a great opportunity to work on challenging engagements.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage complex and sensitive FOIA requests, including reviewing request scope, coordinating records collection, conducting first-level document review, applying redactions, and supporting timely case resolution
• Conduct legal and quality assurance reviews of FOIA response packages, including evaluating the legal basis for proposed redactions, identifying potential issues, and ensuring responses comply with applicable FOIA requirements
• Provide FOIA-related guidance to program staff and subject matter experts, including developing written and verbal instructions regarding records searches, document review, responsiveness, exemptions, and information appropriate for release
• Coordinate with government attorneys, agency leadership, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders on high-profile or sensitive FOIA matters, including matters with potential litigation or significant organizational risk
• Prepare briefing materials, status reports, legal or policy recommendations, taskers, and executive-level correspondence
• Prioritize a high volume of FOIA cases, identify potential backlogs or risks, recommend process improvements, and manage competing deadlines independently

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
• Significant experience supporting FOIA, federal records review, information disclosure, litigation support, or related legal and regulatory functions
• Extensive knowledge of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), including federal FOIA requirements, exemptions, redactions, records review, and applicable policies and procedures
• Experience supporting a federal agency is highly preferred
• Advanced experience with eDiscovery and FOIA processing platforms, such as Veritas Clearwell, FOIA Online, FOIAXpress, or comparable systems, including searching, organizing, tagging, deduplicating, importing/exporting, and redacting records
• Expert proficiency with Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office, and Google Workspace
• Exceptional attention to detail and demonstrated experience performing quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) on large or complex document productions
• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills
• Superb oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel, Google Suite)
• Ability to think strategically, analytically, and proactively about diverse business solutions
• Experience with multi-tasking in a fast-paced and fast-growing company
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Tier 1 federal background investigation/security clearance, as required
• U.S. Citizenship is required

Benefits

• 100% company-paid individual medical health insurance
• Voluntary dental insurance
• Voluntary vision insurance
• Voluntary short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Matching 401(k) plan that is 100% vested immediately
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Federal Holidays
• Maternity/Paternity/Parental Leave
• Professional Certification Reimbursement
• Company Artificial Intelligence Training
• Employee Recognition for Achievements and Milestone Anniversaries
• Team and Corporate Events

This is a full-time salaried position. This specific role will be fully remote but candidate must be local to the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Work is performed in an office environment; must be able to remain in a stationary position for an extended period of time.