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Supervisory Paralegal Specialist
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys
Department of Justice
Location
Salary
$76,463 - $99,404
per year
Type
Full-Time
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GS-12 Pay Grade
Base salary range: $74,441 - $96,770
Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-11. Advanced degree + significant experience.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves leading a team of paralegals and legal support staff in a U.S.
Attorney's office, focusing on supervising daily operations, managing workloads, and providing hands-on help with criminal cases like preparing trial materials and handling discovery documents.
It's a supervisory role that requires strong organizational skills to keep everything running smoothly while supporting attorneys in litigation.
A good fit would be someone with experience in legal support who enjoys managing people and thrives in a fast-paced government environment.
Key Requirements
- One year of specialized experience at GS-11 level or equivalent, including analytical paralegal or legal work with knowledge of law, litigation, and judicial processes
- Ability to plan and oversee work schedules, ensure workflow, and meet deadlines
- Experience managing attendance, leave, and staffing levels for a team
- Skills in substantive legal research, evaluation, and analysis of legal topics
- Proficiency in reviewing, proofreading, editing, and verifying complex legal documents and citations
- Capability to coordinate discovery responses, prepare trial exhibits, and organize case materials
- Strong supervisory skills to monitor performance, distribute workloads, and ensure high-quality support services
Full Job Description
As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.
Specialized Experience: To be qualified for the GS-12 position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in federal service independently performing a variety of analytical paralegal or legal work which demonstrates a practical knowledge of law, the litigation and judicial process, and applicable rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
Specialized experience is defined as: planning and/or overseeing work schedules to ensure even workflow and meeting deadlines; overseeing attendance, leave and vacation schedules to ensure proper staffing levels; performing substantive research, evaluation and analysis of a variety of specialized legal topics and points of law; reviews, proofreads, and edits lengthy and complex legal documents; verifies citations and statutory references against original sources; coordinates production of administrative records and responses to requests for discovery; and prepares and organizes trial exhibits, documents, memoranda, reports, and correspondence relating to cases for review by AUSAs.
Major Duties:
There is one
vacancy in the Buffalo, NY Office and one
vacancy in the Rochester, NY Office.
If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team that is responsible for the overall supervision and coordination of the Paralegals and Legal Administrative Specialists, as assigned, in the Criminal Division.
The incumbent also provides substantive legal support to AUSAs in specialized litigative activities.
Typical work assignments will include: Providing assistance to attorneys in trial preparation by compiling trial notebooks, assembling jury instructions and preparing witness exhibits list.
Managing the support staff to timely provide high-quality services.
Planning the work of the staff to ensure that work product meets organizational goals and priorities, consistent with applicable guidelines and policies.
Monitoring individual staff performance and taking action to promote optimum staff effectiveness. Ensuring that performance ratings are timely and accurately completed.
Collecting, organizing, processing and producing documents, electronic files and other materials required for criminal discovery.
Monitoring and distributing workload among assigned legal support staff.
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