Legal Administrative Specialist

For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys' Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/. 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-13080310-DE.

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 redactions and webcam redactions. 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.

All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, see http://www.ed.gov OR Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is your responsibility to timely provide such evidence by submitting proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency with your application materials. More information may be found at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html. All documentation must be in English or include an English translation.