Legal Administrative Specialist

Summary

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As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.

This position is also being announced to applicants eligible to apply through Merit Staffing procedures under

26-GAS--MS.

Duties

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The office is soliciting applications for a Legal Administrative Specialist position within the Criminal Division. If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team that is responsible for providing a variety of support functions to Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs). Typical work assignments will include:

• Preparing pleadings, stipulations, motions, briefs, affidavits, and other legal documents.
• Reviews administrative records and discovery production for privileged content and other content for redaction.
• Prepares and organizes voluminous documentation and evidence for production as discovery and for use in trial.
• Effectively organizes data and develops trial exhibits such as statistical charts, graphs, and timelines to be presented in court as corroborative evidence.
• Provides automated litigation assistance to attorneys in trial preparation and courtroom presentations.
• Preparing such legal actions as indictments, criminal complaints, search warrants, judgments, answers, motions for extension of time, applications, notices, affidavits, summonses, grand jury subpoenas, rules to show cause, proofs of claim, and satisfaction of judgment.
• The incumbent also provides specialized legal assistance with the USAO investigations conducted by a variety of federal law enforcement agencies and task forces.
• Maintains evidence such as paper documents, PDF files, image files, audio files, video, files, bank records, forensic reports, and other file types. Provides automated litigation assistance to attorneys in trial preparation and courtroom presentations.
• Manages discovery and evidence in electronic and hard copy formats, prepares for the use of it in each stage of litigation and may present the exhibits using trial presentation software in court.
• May be assigned ancillary duties related to records management, Giglio procedures, supervised release violations, reporting, and other tasks as needed.

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

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• 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.
• You must meet all qualification requirements upon the closing date of this announcement.

Qualifications

GS-07: To be eligible at the GS-07 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 (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-05 level in Federal service. Specialized experience maintaining document review databases to perform quality control; preparing a variety of legal documents for office use; searching databases and electronic files for information.

Education: Successful completion of one (1) full year of progressively higher level graduate education (18 semester hours or the number of units your school uses to describe one graduate year of academic study) in related field (e.g., Criminal Justice, Computer Science, Law, IT) leading to a Master's degree OR completed

Bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement.
Superior academic achievement
is as follows: standing in the upper third of your graduating class or major subdivision OR membership in one of the national scholastic honor Societies; OR Grade Point Average. Applicants must have a grade point average of: (a) 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or better) as recorded on their official…