Legal Administrative Specialist (Litigation Support)

Full Job Description

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.

GS-12: To be eligible at the GS-12 level, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level, as defined below.

Specialized Experience involves performing the following types of duties: working in a legal environment providing technical advice and guidance to litigation teams on legal automation requirements, systems capabilities, and complex litigation support issues; actively participating in the investigation and litigation of criminal and/or civil cases; processing complex and voluminous electronically stored information and preparing it for review or production by a litigation team; diagnosing litigation support computer system problems to meet individual user needs and evaluating new developments in legal technology, including software courtroom presentation equipment and trial exhibit preparation; performing a wide range of information system analysis, development, and installation in support of litigation support activities for cases; and providing advice, customer support services, and project management services in connection with electronic discovery and evidence, litigation support projects, and litigation technology software applications.

Major Duties:

If selected, you will serve as a Legal Administrative Specialist (Litigation Support) for the United States Attorney's Office (USAO) for the Western District of Washington.

You will be responsible for providing analysis and advice regarding optimal utilization of technological tools in support of litigation.

Typical work assignments will include: Consulting with case team members (e.g.

attorneys, investigators, legal support staff) to understand case needs and technical requirements as it relates to discovery processing and review; Using and adapting specialized software applications to process complex and voluminous electronically stored information (e.g.

PDF files and portfolios, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, email files such as .pst or .msg, non-standard or propriety files, audio and video files, etc.); Building and maintaining document review databases for case team use by loading image, native, and text files into databases and performing quality control on loaded files; Generating complex electronic discovery productions (e.g., Bates-numbered images with redactions and searchable text or industry standard load files) that comply with production specifications and deadlines, including productions from document review databases or productions from specified criteria; Advising and supporting case teams by acting as a subject matter expert in identifying and implementing appropriate technical solutions to manage commonly found and complex or non-standard electronically stored information in civil and/or criminal cases; and Developing and providing training on litigation technology applications and e-Litigation protocols, including by preparing written training materials.