Paralegal

Salary and Compensation

Base pay range: $50,000.00/yr - $60,000.00/yr. Your pay will be based on skills and experience. Speak with your recruiter for details.

Employment Type: Full-Time, Entry Level

Department: Legal

As a CGS Paralegal, you will work under the direction of a Supervisory Paralegal or Project Supervisor, providing litigation and administrative support to a group of United States Attorneys. CGS brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve the government’s most dynamic problems with cutting‑edge technology. You will contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and anticipate the needs of others.

• Collect court-ordered restitutions and fines of criminal and civil defendants
• Draft legal documents and file them using the Electronic Court Filing system (ECF)
• Prepare garnishments, liens, and other legal process documents for collection
• Send demand letters, file liens, run credit reports, and prepare and submit subpoenas
• Manage and track collection activity in an internal database
• Communicate with and coordinate collection activity with AUSAs in the Monetary Penalties Unit (MPU)
• Complete fact research in public information databases and other research databases to gather information and identify assets
• Prepare legal documents using templates, such as motions, memoranda, subpoenas, correspondence, discovery documents, and other similar documents and forms
• Prepare all recurring legal documents in conformance with rules governing their style and format
• Perform routine document center support functions, such as photocopying, delivering items, assembling notebooks, pulling file copies of documents, tabbing binders, numbering, binding, labeling, re‑filing documents, shelving, packing boxes for shipment, bate stamping, retrieving case materials, completing log sheets, answering phones, logging messages, and faxing information
• Provide trial preparation assistance to AUSAs by independently compiling trial notebooks, preparing jury instructions, drafting witness and exhibit lists
• Open new case files, close case files, organize case files, and record material for disposition or storage
• Maintain calendar of active cases and assigned AUSAs by scheduling appointments, interviews, conferences, providing reminders of commitments and court appearances
• Assist AUSAs in producing discovery to defense counsel
• Maintain, manage, and organize case material utilizing software, including databases, spreadsheets, and word‑processing applications
• Sort incoming mail and prepare outgoing mail, including packaging boxes for shipment
• File pleadings using the Electronic Court Filing system (ECF)
• Produce a variety of written documents using templates and materials utilizing a range of office software applications
• Complete all aspects of travel in accordance with Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) and Department of Justice (DOJ) policies, including traveling arrangements, submitting authorizations, completing vouchers, and submitting local mileage claims

• Requires a paralegal certificate, JD, or currently attending an ABA‑accredited law school having completed at least one year of study
• One year of legal training or legal experience or at least two years of college education may be substituted for the paralegal certificate
• Additionally, at least one year of litigation paralegal experience or project experience related to the task order is required; trial experience is very helpful
• Automated litigation support experience is valued. Must have basic legal knowledge, including standard legal citation, and sufficient experience with legal research tools such as LEXIS and Westlaw to perform basic legal research
• Requires excellent written and oral communication skills, thorough knowledge and hands‑on familiarity 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 the highest quality work…