Litigation Support Specialist

Contact Government Services•Minneapolis, MN

15d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Litigation Support Specialist, you will provide a variety of direct assistance to USAO personnel, AUSAs, legal assistants, administrative staff, and other USAO staff. CGS brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve the government’s most dynamic problems with cutting-edge technology. To carry out our mission, we are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.

Requirements

Knowledge of the legal process and familiarity with both civil and criminal law at the federal and local level. This includes the content and timing of the government's legal discovery obligations, as well as the issues to be addressed in a meet-and-confer with opposing parties and the role of the Information Technology Specialist in identifying and resolving discovery issues
Ability to talk to attorneys, understand legal and factual issues, and subject matter details involved in a case to determine options for managing and presenting the data and to recommend a course of action.
Must be a United States Citizen
Ability to work in office full time 5-days a week
Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Responsibilities

Provides technical advice to litigation teams on legal automation options, systems capabilities, and support services available to aid in case preparation, trial preparation and trial presentation. Performs a wide range of information system analysis, development, and installation in support of USAO DMN litigation support activities for assigned cases.
Provides litigation support services, including trial preparation and presentation, in response to customer needs. The contractor performs such services directly or in conjunction with the USAO's Litigation Support Manager.
Defines and creates case databases for processing electronically stored information (ESI), case review, production, organization, and trial presentation
Organizes voluminous case information for efficient retrieval through automated means such as processing ESI in common litigation applications such as LAW Pre-discovery or Nuix or industry standard equivalent., OCRing, indexing and production of documents to and from a database.
Assures documents are organized for efficient electronic storage and retrieval by processing ESI, defining deduplication scope, quality control, preparing appropriate indices, defining data file search criteria, and indexing databases in common litigation applications such as Eclipse or Relativity or industry standard equivalent.