Litigation Support Specialist

SGI Global is seeking a Litigation Support Specialist responsible for providing technical and analytical assistance involving Litigation Support in three or more other IT specialty areas which support the information management needs of the United States Attorney's office for the District of Minnesota.

• Provides technical advice to litigation teams on legal automation options, systems capabilities, and support services available to aid in case preparation, trial preparation and trial presentation. Performs a wide range of information system analysis, development, and installation in support of USAO DMN litigation support activities for assigned cases.
• In coordination with Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs), investigators, federal agents, and paralegal specialists, the contractor develops project management strategies and tools for gathering, tracking, processing, reviewing, organizing, and producing case information in an effective, efficient, and defensible manner.
• Recommends a variety of software packages including database, spreadsheet and word processing applications based on which software would be most effective for organization and management of information and documents, presentation of complex and voluminous evidence or production of graphic demonstrative evidence. Also, recommends best practices and procedures for processing information as part of case preparation.
• The contractor performs essential litigation support tasks. Specifically, assignments encompass the following
• The contractor provides litigation support services, including trial preparation and presentation, in response to customer needs.
• The contractor performs such services directly or in conjunction with the USAO's Litigation Support Manager.
• The contractor defines and creates case databases for processing electronically stored information (ESI), case review, production, organization, and trial presentation.
• The contractor plans and coordinates efforts with other agencies or offices involved in litigation team activities, including recommending best practices and procedures for collecting electronically stored information in a defensible manner using available software.
• With attorneys and key legal support staff, the contractor organizes voluminous case information for efficient retrieval through automated means such as processing ESI in common litigation applications such as LAW Prediscovery or Nuix or industry standard equivalent., OCRing, indexing and production of documents to and from a database.
• The contractor assures documents are organized for efficient electronic storage and retrieval by processing ESI, defining deduplication scope, quality control, preparing appropriate indices, defining data file search criteria, and indexing databases in common litigation applications such as Eclipse or Relativity or industry standard equivalent.
• The contractor prepares graphical presentations, demonstrative exhibits, and trial presentations.
• The contractor coordinates with the LTSC and vendors as needed.
• The contractor installs, configures, and maintains litigation support equipment.
• The contractor sets up and maintains trial presentation equipment; and
• The contractor evaluates the efficiency of litigation support technology to ensure that it is responsive to the attorney and case needs, and that it represents the best methodology available.
• LS Systems Administration - The contractor performs testing, quality assurance, configuration, installation, implementation, and maintenance of LS resources. The contractor ensures systems availability, functionality, integrity, and efficiency. In this regard, the contractor: (10%)
• Schedules the installation of new or modified LS hardware and software working with…