Senior Paralegal
Senior Paralegal
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26-05-2025
Job Description
Senior Paralegal
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Legal
CGS is seeking an experienced Senior Paralegal to join a fast-moving extremely active in-house government legal team. This position is a key role related to supporting various aspects of the companys litigation portfolio including eDiscovery activities workflow management and attorney support.
CGS brings motivated highly skilled and creative people together to solve the governments most dynamic problems with cutting-edge technology. To carry out our mission we are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovationappreciate collaboration and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.
Skills and attributes for success:
- Prepares a variety of technical legal documents that are characteristically complex in format.
- Reviews incoming documents and material considers the nature and the status of the case involved.
- Prepares indictments arrest warrants summonses true bills motions orders non-disclosure applications and orders stipulations plea agreements grand jury and trial subpoenas and legal memoranda.
- Obtains required information from criminal case files law enforcement agencies or other sources to include in legal documents before submitting to the appropriate AUSA for review.
- Ensures when preparing recurring legal documents that they conform to local court rules and the rules governing style and format.
- Assists attorneys in preparing for trial by independently compiling trial and witness notebooks preparing and organizing trial exhibits assembling jury instructions and compiling witness and exhibit lists.
- Coordinates with the victim/witness specialist to ensure adherence to current Departmental guidelines relating to victims rights and services responsibilities.
- Notifies case agents and appropriate office staff of victim/witness issues.
- Using original and online legal resources including Westlaw and/or Lexis/Nexis verifies legal citations and statutory references contained in legal documents.
- Research to confirm that citations are accurate complete and consistent with source material.
- Proofreads edits and revises legal briefs.
- Electronically files legal documents with the U.S. District Court using the CM/ECF system.
- Develops and organizes tables of contents and indices to briefs in accordance with established format.
- Lists cited cases opinions and miscellaneous references in briefs.
- Composes original correspondence which requires a good working knowledge of legal procedures and specialized terminology
- Transmitting proposed orders to the court.
- Requesting extensions of time in certain cases.
- Advising of actions taken or developments in cases referred by other federal departments and agencies.
- Notifying attorneys representing defendants of various issues.
- Scans/inputs and links case-related materials into electronic discovery databases and manages those databases.
- Uploads/downloads into those discovery databases documents and materials received from local state and federal law enforcement partners consisting of investigative and forensic reports bank records electronic communication records and audio and video files provided in varying file formats.
- Manages discovery processing and production.
- Proficiently bates-stamps and redacts discovery materials using Adobe Acrobat and may employ discovery processing techniques using IPRO Eclipse.
- Sends continuing discovery to defense counsel as directed by the assigned AUSA.
- Maintains the electronic case files enters data in the case management system calendars deadlines using MS Outlook prepares and files conflict of interest and case opening forms in the electronic case file.
Qualifications:
- Requires 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 is required; trial experience is very helpful.
- At least one year of experience in automated litigation support. Requires sound working knowledge of federal and state court systems 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.
- The ability to consistently deliver the highest quality work under extreme pressure will be very important.
Our commitment:
Contact Government Services (CGS) strives to simplify and enhance government bureaucracy through the optimization of human technical and financial resources. We combine cutting-edge technology with world-class personnel to deliver customized solutions that fit our clients specific needs. We are committed to solving the most challenging and dynamic problems.
For the past seven years weve been growing our government contracting portfolio and along the way weve created valuable partnerships by demonstrating a commitment to honesty professionalism and quality work.
Here at CGS we value honesty through hard work and self-awareness professionalism in all we do and to deliver the best quality to our consumers mending those relations for years to come.
We care about our employees. Therefore we offer a comprehensive benefits package:
- Health Dental and Vision
- Life Insurance
- 401k
- Flexible Spending Account (Health Dependent Care and Commuter)
- Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays
Join our team and become part of meaningful government innovation!
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$48533.33 - $62400 a year
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Employment Type
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