Legal Assistant III

• Greet visitors, control office access, and follow Government visitor-management and security procedures
• Answer and route telephone inquiries, receive messages, and direct callers or visitors to appropriate OGC personnel
• Provide routine or procedural office information only as authorized and follow Government-provided routing procedures
• Maintain a professional front office environment and protect sensitive information from unauthorized disclosure
• Receive, review, time stamp, sort, route, and distribute incoming mail, correspondence, and faxes
• Prepare, collect, and dispatch outgoing mail and coordinate approved local courier services when needed
• Support general clerical and administrative activities assigned within the scope of the OGC requirement
• Provide responsive customer service to attorneys, staff, visitors, and other authorized stakeholders

• Maintain attorney calendars and schedule appointments, meetings, conferences, and conference calls
• Maintain suspense lists, reminders, meeting details, room reservations, and schedule changes
• Prepare meeting rooms and conference materials and reschedule appointments when necessary
• Arrange official travel and lodging for OGC staff, make cost comparisons, and secure required pre-travel approvals
• Input travel vouchers in ConcurGov or another Government-designated travel system, as directed
• Serve as timekeeper, when assigned, and enter time and leave information in HR Links or another designated system

• Prepare routine correspondence, non-technical legal documents, reports, and other materials with limited supervision
• Use Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Adobe Acrobat or Foxit, and other Government-designated software
• Produce, edit, format, store, retrieve, and print documents from drafts, edited copy, or electronic files
• Prepare final-form correspondence with accurate grammar, spelling, punctuation, pagination, and formatting
• Review briefs, memoranda, pleadings, exhibits, attachments, and other documents for proper format and completeness
• Prepare complex documents containing tables, charts, special symbols, authorities, and other structured material

• Establish and maintain physical and electronic case files, legal subject files, correspondence, and related records
• Cross-reference files, add new materials, revise file organization, and maintain records under applicable office file plans
• Search for and retrieve files, track case disposition, and identify records for purge or other directed disposition
• Safeguard legal files and records from loss, unauthorized access, or disclosure
• Dispose of sensitive materials in accordance with Government procedures
• Support accurate and timely case, workload, litigation, and records tracking

• Prepare and assemble documents, transmittals, envelopes, and related materials for filing, submission, mailing, or service
• Format filings in accordance with applicable court, board, commission, agency, or other procedural requirements
• Support timely filing or submission to federal courts, boards of contract appeals, GAO, DOJ, and other entities as directed
• Maintain documentation showing that pleadings or other materials were filed, served, lodged, or otherwise submitted
• Circulate sensitive correspondence, legislative items, executive orders, and other matters requiring legal review
• Track legal review items in Government-designated applications and communicate status to authorized requesters

• Search, assemble, and summarize information from authorized legal and Government sources, as directed
• Use LexisNexis, Westlaw, GSA databases, OGC databases, shared drives, and other approved resources when applicable
• Maintain and organize legal publications, reference materials, subscriptions, manuals, and related resources
• Enter and update budget, timesheet, leave, travel, training, workload, litigation-case, and other organizational data
• Prepare recurring statistical, workload, and managerial reports using tracked information
• Maintain accurate records and protect reference materials, documents, and files from unauthorized disclosure

• Coordinate copying, printing, scanning, reproduction, and assembly of legal documents, litigation materials, and reports
• Prepare document packages for review, filing, mailing, service, or distribution and verify completeness and legibility
• Support printers, scanners, copiers, shredding, office supplies, inventory, and equipment service requests
• Assist with simple and complex FOIA requests if the Government exercises the optional FOIA support requirement
• Support FOIA intake, routing, records gathering, correspondence, file maintenance, tracking, reporting, and redaction preparation
• Review FOIA search results, prepare draft responses/redactions for Gov review, and safeguard FOIA-related information
• Perform other legal administrative and litigation-support duties within the scope of the position
• Maintain accuracy, timeliness, confidentiality, and professionalism in accordance with GSA procedures

• Minimum of 3 years of federal litigation support experience
• Demonstrated experience providing legal administrative or litigation support in a federal environment
• Experience with document management, case file organization, records support, and legal document production
• Experience supporting court, board, commission, agency, or other administrative filings
• Experience proofreading, formatting, preparing, and tracking legal documents and correspondence
• Experience handling sensitive, confidential, privileged, proprietary, or non-public legal information
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Word and PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of Google Suite / Google Workspace, Adobe Acrobat DC or Foxit Phantom, and internet-based tools
• Clear oral and written communication, strong attention to detail, and accurate data-entry skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines, priorities, and changing administrative requirements

• Primary place of performance is 1800 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20405
• Regular onsite support is required
• Government-authorized telework is available as part of the hybrid work arrangement

• Travel is not anticipated for this requirement

• Position is designated low-risk Public Trust and requires a favorable Tier 1 suitability determination
• Subject to Government background investigation, fingerprinting, and suitability adjudication before work begins

• U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)

• Employment Classification Eligibility—Nonexempt

Salary : $39 - $44