Paralegal I/legal Assistant

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Paralegal I/Legal Assistant
The candidate typical assignments include: Examines, prepares, and processes a variety of technical legal, financial, and other documents. Reviews incoming material and organizes such materials according to custodian and category. Determines the need for organization, document management, assembly and preparation of documents and data sets. Assists in the preparation of a variety of legal documents, e.g., indictments , complaints, affidavits, applications, notices, motions, orders, subpoenas, search warrants, briefs and memoranda. In preparing legal documents, considers the nature and the status of the case. Completes variable aspects of recurring legal documents in conformance with the rules governing their style and format. Obtains needed information from files, law enforcement agencies, or other sources. Assists with inter views of agents and potential witnesses to assist the AUSA in preparation for charging or trial. Reviews, summarizes and outlines grand jury and/or trial testimony to assist the AUSA in preparation for charging or trial. Researches, analyzes and summarizes relevant legal precedents for applicability to assigned cases; and prepares digests of points of law involved; analyzes appellate records to isolate facts pertinent to distinct legal issues. Utilizes a variety of automated legal research tools as well as public information databases and other automated resources to research factual and/or legal matters related to cases or programs and to participate in electronic discovery and other assigned areas of criminal proceedings. Reviews documents and other materials produced pursuant to subpoena, maintains inventory of materials produced pursuant to subpoena; reviews and summarizes documents and data produced pursuant to subpoena; and prepares outline of substance of documents /materials produced pursuant to subpoena. Provides a variety of support assistance services to AUSA staff. Provide litigative case management and organizes cases for presentation either in court, or to attorneys by preparing and organizing exhibits containing a variety of visual material, e.g., statistical charts and photographs. Notes deficiencies in case materials, e.g., missing documents, conflicting statements, and request further investigation by investigative personnel to correct deficiencies, or personally conducts limited investigations at the pre-trial stage. Monitors the progress of pending cases and initiates action to insure the legal pleadings, forms, reports, correspondence, and other documents are prepared and submitted within established deadlines. Keeps appropriate staff members informed about the current status of cases. Compiles, organizes and indexes various discovery and evidence exhibits for trial, witness testimony as it relates to specific criminal charge evidence, and develops and compiles jury instructions to assist AUSA in preparing for trial. Works closely with assigned attorney(s) to insure material is efficiently arranged. Produces and provides to the attorney the appropriate legal documents, information, exhibits, or witnesses at the appropriate time during those court proceedings. Performs docketing duties such as opening, updating and closing cases through use of the automated case tracking system. As necessary, searches database for required information. Using established databases, performs data searches, report design, and other data retrieval assignments. Reports may be of a recurring nature or of a special, one-time nature based on user information requirements. Maintains calendar of assigned active cases. Tracks, filing, hearing and trial dates and scheduling conferences and interviews. Develops and maintains suspense system for ongoing cases and informs the AUSA of pending dates and deadlines. Maintains calendar(s) of the AUSA(s), scheduling appointments, interviews, and conferences and provides reminders of commitments and court appearances. Arranges travel by preparing itinerary, and securing transportation and hotel reservations. Prepares travel authorizations and vouchers for signature by authorized government personnel. Produces a variety of written documents and materials utilizing a wide range of office software applications. For example, assignments may include integrating output from different software type s, e.g., tables produced by database applications and charts and graphs produced by electronic spreadsheet applications, into word processing or desk top publishing text. Products include complicated tables, graphs and charts which may be incorporated into legal documents or courtroom presentations. Ensures proper format, spelling, punctuation , capitalization and grammar. Provides automated litigation assistance to attorney(s). Utilizes various software applications and graphics hardware such as scanners and plotters.

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