Senior Paralegal

Leidos•Washington, DC

2d•$32•Hybrid

About The Position

Leidos is seeking Senior Paralegals to work on-site in support of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC. This role is within a newly formed division of the Department of Justice, National Fraud Enforcement Division, providing legal and technical services. The team is equipped to handle forensic capture, review, and analysis of electronic evidence from various sources like emails, instant messages, electronic devices, and social media systems. This position offers opportunities to develop intangible skills such as time and task management, critical thinking, problem-solving, concise communication of complex issues, and using available tools to solve complex problems. The selected Senior Paralegals will work in a fast-paced and diverse environment with a management team that encourages career development and growth.

Requirements

Paralegal certificate, or JD, or currently attending an ABA-accredited law school, having completed at least one year of study.
At least two years of litigation paralegal experience required.
At least one year of experience in automated litigation support.
Requires sound working knowledge of federal and state court system, legal research procedures, and legal research resources.
Requires excellent written and oral communication skills and thorough knowledge of legal research tools such as LEXIS and Westlaw.
Must have hands-on familiarity with a variety of computer applications, including word processing, databases (such as document review and file management systems), spreadsheets, imaging, and hardware systems.
Role also requires hands-on familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources.
Ability to consistently deliver highest quality work under extreme pressure will be very important.
Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting large document reviews over 1 million records.
Experience in search related technology.
Trial support experience very helpful.

Responsibilities

Required to travel up to 50% of the time to aid with trial preparation.
Performs detailed reviews and analysis of case materials, which includes financial records, health care materials, and other litigation files.
Performs detailed indexing of case files; drafting procedures for accomplishing litigation support assignments; document acquisition related tasks; screening for privilege documents; and conducting database searches.
Composes written documents in a concise and logical manner.
As required, serves as "team leader" for a group of legal professionals.
Communicates with other DOJ components, Federal agencies and others as required during investigations and litigation.
Utilizes Excel spreadsheets to track information and analyze case statistics.
Compiles, prepares, and summarizes relevant materials for use by attorneys in discovery and in preparation of motions, briefs and other legal documents.
Summarizes depositions and other transcripts; maintains case files; performs moderately complex legal research; indexes, tracks and controls document discovery (including documents produced and received in discovery).
Perform trial preparation tasks to include copying, document review, document organization, bates stamping, legal research and searching documents in Concordance/Summation.
During trial, assist with documents and indexes, tracks exhibits and other materials at depositions.
Proofreads and edits written documents.
Reviews audio files for relevance and update databases with findings.
Prepares witnesses, exhibits and other evidence binders.
Receives and track discovery items.
Utilizes electronic and evidence management and discovery production processes and tools, such as Relativity, Casemap, Sanction and Oncue, to support investigations.
Searches the Relativity database per criteria developed by case team management.
Reviews search result sets for relevance based on written criteria.
Codes relevant documents per existing protocol.
Responds to citizen and congressional correspondence.
Responds to citizen phone calls.