Paralegal Specialist

***Location: Denver, CO, Washington, DC, Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Kansas City, MO, Philadelphia, PA***

***THIS POSITION IS NOT REMOTE***

***U.S. Citizenship required***

***This job will close when we have received 100 applications which may be sooner than the closing date.***

• Federal employees - Competitive service

Current federal employees whose agencies follow the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's hiring rules and pay scales.

• Federal employees - Excepted service

Current federal employees whose agencies have their own hiring rules, pay scales and evaluation criteria.

• Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)

Federal employees whose job, agency or department was eliminated and are eligible for priority over other applicants.

• Land and base management

Current or former employees of a base management agency.

• Veterans

Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces or a spouse, widow, widower or parent of a veteran, who may be eligible for derived preference

• Military spouses

As a Paralegal Specialist, you will:

• Help assure compliance with current rules and procedures for administrative forums and courts, including reviewing standing orders and e-filing procedures.
• Assist attorneys with electronic discovery obligations, including legal holds, and the organization and management of electronic documents and data.
• Perform research using computer research tools, including to cite check briefs.
• Assist with document exchanges between client agencies, and various State or local agencies-using various platforms.

Qualifications

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

GS-11

Minimum Qualifications: You must have one-year specialized experience to perform successfully the duties of the position. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service performing ALL of the following:

• Applying laws, court and/or administrative decisions and interpretations, rules, regulations, policies and procedures pertaining to the administration of legal programs.
• Assisting attorneys to prepare hearings/trials by compiling, organizing and indexing evidentiary materials.
• Using legal databases to conduct research and locate pertinent case law, statutes, regulations and policies.
• Preparing drafts or legal documents (e.g., memoranda of law, discovery responses, subpoena requests, etc); researching, identifying, analyzing and summarizing pertinent facts from case reports, legal decisions and organization precedents.

OR

Have a Ph.D. or equivalent graduate degree, or successfully completed at least 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field that is directly related to the duties of this position, OR received an LL.M.

OR

Have a combination of graduate education and experience, as described above that meets 100% of the requirements.

GS-12

Minimum Qualifications: You must have one year specialized experience to perform successfully the duties of the position. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service performing ALL of the following:

• Analyzing legal decisions and case files to identify relevant issues and potential evidence.
• Conducting legal research concerning precedents and past court decisions using databases such as Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw and internet search engines for research and litigation tracking purposes.
• Composing legal briefs, summaries of analyses, decisions, and pre-hearing documents.
• Performing legal and factual citation verification of documents using sherardizing and Bluebook-compliant review of briefs, legal memoranda, and related materials.