Supervisory Legal Administrative Specialist

About the role

The United States Attorney's Office for South Carolina’s mission is to investigate, prosecute and deter violations of federal statutes, enforce and represent the interests of the United States in civil litigation, uphold civil, constitutional and victims' rights, and foster partnerships with other federal, state and local government agencies and community groups. This Supervisory Legal Administrative Specialist position trains and supervises support staff, provides guidance on integrating software into the criminal division support workload, and delivers legal and technical support services to one or more Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs). The role is located in Charleston, South Carolina, within the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of South Carolina, focusing on legal administrative support for the criminal division.

Responsibilities

• Maintain current case assignments for all criminal division legal support staff to ensure efficient and effective work distribution.
• Plan criminal division legal support staff assignments in consultation with supervisory AUSAs.
• Serve as the Rating Official for Legal Administrative Specialists and Legal Assistants in the criminal division.
• Provide orientation for new criminal division legal support staff and conduct on-the-job training.
• Assist and/or train legal support staff in organizing voluminous case information for efficient retrieval through automated means such as scanning, indexing and controlling of documents into a database.
• Perform a variety of litigation support tasks necessary to process complex and/or voluminous electronically stored information.
• Maintain evidence including paper documents, PDF files, image files, audio files, video files, bank records, forensic reports, and other file types.
• Provide automated litigation assistance to attorneys in trial preparation and courtroom presentations.

Requirements

You must be a United States Citizen or National to apply. Selective Service registration is required for males born after 12/31/59 unless exempt. All Federal employees must authorize direct deposit of salary payments. Initial appointment is conditioned on a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication, including fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing; continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation. A probationary period may be required.

Qualifications

To qualify at the GS-11 level, you must demonstrate specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level performing at least four of the following duties in either the public or private sectors:

• Utilize court rules, regulations and procedures to assist attorneys and legal support personnel with analyzing and evaluating legal decisions or case files to identify relevant issues and potential evidence.
• Recommend automated support methods for trials.
• Customize databases and programs for user needs.
• Assist attorneys with trial preparation or automatic evidence presentations in court.
• Prepare motions, orders, pleadings, subpoenas and legal briefs, summaries of analyses and decisions, or pre-trial documents.

OR

Successful completion of one of the following in a related field: a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; or possession of an LL.M degree. Graduate-level education must demonstrate the competencies necessary to do the work of the position (submit transcripts).

OR

A combination of the above-described graduate education and specialized experience. Only graduate-level education in excess of the first two years can be used in this calculation. To calculate your percentage, add the percentage of qualifying specialized experience to the percentage of excess graduate education; the sum must equal at least 100%.