Paralegal

Paralegal

The Opportunity:

The paralegal position is an excellent position for a motivated individual looking for an opportunity to grow within CACI. In this role, you will work collaboratively with teams of DOJ attorneys to handle a wide variety of litigation support tasks from the basics (preparing and filing documents with courts and organizing, tracking and archiving legal documents) to the more complex tasks (redacting and protecting privilege information, conducting factual and legal research, assisting in witness interviews, depositions and trial preparation by preparing binders, indexing discovery, and preparing evidentiary exhibits, and providing in-court room assistance).

CACI is committed to growing our eDiscovery workforce and has included tuition reimbursement for Relativity certifications, the ACEDS certification and Paralegal Certificates!

This is a great opportunity for someone to grow their careers.

Please apply if you are interested to hear more!

Responsibilities:

As a CACI Paralegal supporting the DOJ’s mission, you will gain invaluable knowledge and transferrable skills related to eDiscovery practice and procedures and utilizing document databases to conduct searches and code evidentiary material. You will be a part of a high-performing team completing assignments with established procedures that include:

• Compiling, preparing, and summarizing relevant materials for use by attorneys in discovery and in preparation of motions, briefs and other legal documents
• Summarize depositions and other transcripts; maintains case files.
• Perform simple legal research.
• Index, track and control document discovery (including documents produced and received in discovery)
• Index, track and exhibits and other materials at depositions and pares exhibit cross-references.
• Assist US Attorneys in courtroom.
• Review documents for relevance and privilege according to established guidelines and criteria.
• Other examples of the types of work to be performed include compilation of documents for FOIA, production requests, Congressional inquiries, etc.

Qualifications:

Required:

• This position requires paralegal certificate, JD, or currently attending an ABA-accredited law school, having completed at least one year of study. Oneyear of legal training or legal experience or at least two years of college educationmay be substituted for the paralegal certificate.
• Additionally, at least one year of litigation paralegal experience or project experience (as related to the task order) is required.
• Must have basic legal knowledge, including knowledge of standard legal citation to citecheck legal motions and memorandum and must have sufficient experience with legalresearch tools such as LEXIS and Westlaw to perform basic legal research.
• Requiresexcellent written and oral communication skills, thorough knowledge and hands-onfamiliarity with a variety of computer applications, including word processing, databases(such as document review and file management systems), spreadsheets, imaging, and hardware systems.
• Role also requires basic familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of
  eDiscovery procedures and resources.
• Ability to consistently deliver highest quality workunder extreme pressure will be very important.
• DOJ MBI must be obtainable (US Citizenship required).

Desired:

• Trial experience very helpful.
• Automated litigation support experience valued.
• Extensive computer and database expertise (MS Excel and Word skills necessary).

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What You Can Expect:

A culture of integrity.

At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.

An environment of trust.

CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take…