Supervisory Legal Administrative Specialist

For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys' Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/.

Qualifications:

GS-12: To be eligible at the GS-12 level, you must have at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service as defined below.

Specialized experience is defined as experience performing the following types of duties: assisting attorneys in preparing for voluminous litigation support assignments (i.e., organizing case information, scanning and indexing documents, etc.); conducting research, analysis and evaluation of data in response to case-specific legal matters; composing legal briefs, summaries of analyses and decisions, and trial preparation; and mentoring and/or providing training to support legal staff.

Responsibilities:

If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team that is responsible for handling some of the most complex and difficult cases in the United States Attorney's office (USAO) because they require organizing, tracking, and analyzing thousands of items of evidence, millions of data elements, or involve untried or especially novel computer or digital imaging applications.

Typical work assignments will include:

• Responsible for the overall supervision, coordination, and casework assignment for criminal/civil support staff. Ensuring adequate coverage during pre-trial, trial, and post-trial stages.
• Providing technical advice to litigation teams on legal automation requirements and systems capabilities to facilitate litigation decisions, trial preparation and trial presentation.
• Assisting and/or training attorneys and 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.
• Ensuring proper hardware/software is in place for courtroom and grand jury sessions.
• Utilizing a variety of automated legal research tools as well as public information databases and other automated resources to research case or program-specific legal matters and participating in assigned areas of criminal and civil proceedings, e.g., electronic discovery.
• Preparing and maintaining a variety of trial-related documents, e.g., discovery letters, exhibit lists, jury instructions, voir dire, motions in limine, trial subpoenas, by applying a thorough knowledge of the Federal Rules of Evidence and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and application of practical litigative experience.
• Providing advice to attorneys and other legal support staff on the most effective and efficient ways to prepare, present and maintain a variety of administrative legal documents, e.g., discovery letters, exhibit lists, jury instructions and subpoenas.
• Reviewing, assessing, and developing local litigation policies and procedures to ensure they are consistent with current policies and objectives.

Salary : $89,508