Paralegal Specialist (Health Care Fraud)

Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys•Denver, CO

About The Position

The Paralegal Specialist joins a United States Attorney’s Office team supporting civil litigation needs in Health Care Fraud (HCF) investigations and trials. The role performs technical and analytical work for civil HCF trial teams, facilitating litigation decisions, trial preparation, and trial presentation. Responsibilities increase in complexity as training and experience progress. The position involves managing case-specific discovery, applying knowledge of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Evidence, court requirements, and district practices, and determining how evidence should be organized and presented. It also involves selecting appropriate software for managing and presenting complex evidence, preparing visual exhibits, analyzing Medicare, Medicaid, and other insurance data, and conducting specialized legal research and writing for civil HCF cases. The position requires U.S. citizenship or nationality and is subject to pre-employment checks, drug testing, and a background investigation. A one-year probationary period may be required. Relocation expenses will not be authorized.

Requirements

Meet at least one GS-11 qualification route: specialized experience, qualifying education, or a combination of education and experience.
For the specialized-experience route, have at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to GS-9 in Federal service.
Specialized experience examples include providing litigation-team technical assistance on case management and discovery; reviewing, analyzing, and summarizing voluminous documents; organizing and managing case-specific discovery; using automated litigation-support technology to organize, retrieve, and index digital evidence; and performing legal research and writing.
For the education route, have a related Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, three full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree, or a related LL.M.
Graduate education must be from an accredited college or university and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for the position.
For the combined education-and-experience route, graduate education must exceed two full years.
Be a U.S. Citizen or National.
Meet applicable Selective Service registration requirements.
Federal employees must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements within 30 days after the announcement closing date.
Meet all qualification and eligibility requirements within 30 days after the announcement closing date and before placement.
Pass required pre-employment adjudication, including fingerprint, credit, and tax checks, and drug testing; continued employment is subject to a favorable background investigation.
Provide required documentation when claiming eligibility for ICTAP, CTAP, VEOA, or a noncompetitive appointment authority.
Academic degrees and coursework must be completed at an accredited or pre-accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; qualifying foreign education must be shown to be comparable to U.S. accredited education.

Nice To Haves

Experience providing technical litigation support related to Health Care Fraud to facilitate litigation decisions.
Experience reviewing, analyzing, and synthesizing Medicare, Medicaid, or other insurance data for suspicious billing patterns and loss calculations.
Experience preparing computerized trial presentations, such as with Trial Director.
Experience using data analytical tools for healthcare and prescription data to manipulate, analyze, and present data.

Responsibilities

Provide technical litigation support to Health Care Fraud civil trial teams to facilitate litigation decisions, trial preparation, and trial presentation.
Apply knowledge of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Evidence, court requirements, and district practices to organize and manage case-specific discovery.
Use discovery to help prove cases by determining what evidence should be presented and how it should be presented.
Recommend and identify software, including databases, spreadsheets, and word-processing applications, for presenting complex evidence, producing demonstrative evidence, and meeting user needs.
Prepare exhibits for legal proceedings, including charts, graphs, diagrams, and other visual materials.
Review, analyze, and synthesize Medicare, Medicaid, and other insurance data to identify suspicious billing patterns and calculate losses.
Conduct specialized legal research and writing for civil Health Care Fraud cases, including research and analysis of statutes, legislative intent, judicial precedents, agency rules and regulations, and law review articles.