Legal Assistant; Office Automation

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As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.
This position is also being announced to All U.S. Citizens and Nationals under 27-HI--DE.

At the full performance level, you will serve as a senior legal assistant responsible for directly and independently supporting Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) by providing a wide variety of technical assistance services related to complex financial litigation actions and matters. If selected, you will receive formal and/or on-the-job training as needed.

Duties include:

• Providing substantive assistance to AUSAs in complex financial litigation matters where the work is complicated by the requirement to independently develop, analyze and evaluate information regarding complex and/or unusual financial assets to assist AUSAs in cases.
• Reviewing incoming material and determining the need for correspondence and legal documents such as motions, orders, pleadings, and subpoenas.
• Preparing legal actions such as indictments, criminal complaints, search warrants, judgments, applications, notices, affidavits, summonses, grand jury subpoenas, rules to show cause, proofs of claim and satisfaction of judgment.
• Conducting research of issues using various legal and non-legal databases and websites.
• Obtaining and analyzing financial information on debtors to determine their present and future potential ability to pay.
• Managing discovery and evidence in paper copies and electronically and may present the exhibits using trial presentation software in court.
• Managing paper and electronic documents and evidence, correspondence, briefs, witness interviews, and other documentary materials.
• Keeping track of case status and ensuring records are retained in a manner that will facilitate effective retrieval.

Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress. This position is considered a career ladder opportunity, with a full performance level of GS-8. If selected at a lower grade level, you may be non-competitively promoted to the next grade level at the discretion of your supervisor and is contingent upon meeting regulatory and legal requirements for promotion, satisfactory performance, and the availability of higher-level work.

Promotion is not guaranteed, and no promise of promotion is implied.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation.
• You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.
• If selected, you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
• Time-in-Grade:
  Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.
• You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.

To be eligible at the GS‑5 level, you must have: at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS‑4 level; or four years of education above the high school level; or a combination of both specialized experience and education as explained below.

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