Paralegal Specialist; Financial Litigation Program

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Note: In order to be considered "qualified" for this position, your specialized experience must be described in your resume. Please be sure that your resume clearly states any and all of the specialized experience that you may have. If your specialized experience is not clearly detailed in your resume, you will not be considered for this position.

To be eligible at the GS-9 level, you must have at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 grade level in the Federal service, or Master's or equivalent graduate degree if in a related field (e.g., criminal justice, law), or two full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, or an LL.B

or J.D. if in a related field (e.g., criminal justice, law), or a combination of both specialized experience and education as explained below.

Specialized Experience is defined as one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 level. Specialized experience is defined as experience performing research, evaluation and analysis of a variety of routine legal topics, researching references to locate appropriate data using multiple online legal systems, organizing and preparing research material and determining information that is pertinent to the case, performing basic legal analysis, and analyzing information, identifying the appropriate reference sources.

Ideal candidates will have experience in Financial Litigation, bankruptcy, commercial, creditors' rights, tax, or real property litigation.

A combination of experience and graduate level education can be used if, when combined, are equivalent to 100% of the qualification requirement. Only graduate level education in excess of the first full year can be used in this calculation. To calculate your percentage of graduate education, first determine the total number of graduate level hours that exceed 18 semester hours (or your school's definition of one year of graduate study), then divide the total number of your excess graduate semester hours by 18 (or your school's definition of one year of graduate study).

To calculate your percentage of specialized experience, divide the total number of months of qualifying experience by 12. Now, add the two percentages together. The sum of the percentages must equal at least 100%.

To be eligible at the GS-11 level, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-9 grade level in the Federal service as defined below, or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, if in a related field (e.g., criminal justice, law), or three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, or LL.M. if in a related field (e.g., criminal justice, law), or a combination of both specialized experience and education as explained below.

Specialized Experience is defined as one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-9 level including performing substantive research, evaluating and analyzing a variety of specialized legal topics and points of law pertaining to Financial Litigation; assessing the unique circumstances of a situation and developing variations in approach to ascertain the true nature of debtors present and future potential ability to pay their judgement debt;

participating in the development and implementation of revised procedures relating to Financial Litigation. Ideal candidates will have experience in Financial Litigation, bankruptcy, commercial, creditors' rights, tax, or real property litigation.

A combination of experience and graduate level education can be used if, when combined, are equivalent to 100% of the qualification requirement. Only graduate level education in excess of the…