Legal Administrative Specialist

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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-NV--DE.

Duties

If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected Legal Support team that is responsible for providing a variety of legal, administrative and technical support services to the Criminal Division within the District of Nevada. The duties of this position include:

• Managing, organizing, reviewing, and summarizing incoming and outgoing discovery in electronic or other formats in compliance with the Federal Rules of Criminal and/or Civil Procedure.
• Handling a wide variety of evidence and Discovery, organizing, preparing, routing electronic discovery, discovery red actions and webcam red actions.
• Uses various software applications technologies, such as Discovery, Everlaw, Case View, Adobe, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. to collect, organize, analyze, and present information.
• Conducts factual research and non-complex research of legislation, statutes, regulations, and court cases, cite-checking legal briefs and proofreading, memoranda, and other legal documents.
• Preparing draft pleadings, stipulations, motions, tables of authorities, tables of contents, and other legal documents.
• Providing administrative support for assigned cases. This includes but is not limited to entering information into case management systems; maintaining calendar and logging of assigned active cases; and managing case-related and discovery documents.

Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

GS-09: To be eligible at the GS-09 level, you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions, as defined below:
Specialized Experience, Education, OR a combination of Education and Experience.

• Specialized
  
  Experience:
  
  One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 level. Specialized experience is defined as performing the following: (1) managing incoming discovery in tracking receipt, in index or logs including paper documents, and electronic files, (2) performing general administrative support duties ie: office automation software, preparing binders, file compilations for use during hearings, depositions, interviews and trials; (3) providing technical assistance to litigation teams, and utilizing various software applications to provide assistance to attorneys in trial preparation and courtroom presentations;
  
  (4) utilizing office automation tools in order to create physical and digital trial presentations, working with investigators, agents, and legal support staff; handling a wide variety of evidence and discovery; (5) and conducting factual legal research, non-legal databases, non-complex research of…