This position is located in the Civil Rights Division's (Division) Appellate Section. As the Lead Paralegal Specialist, you will lead a group of paralegals providing support to teams of attorneys and staff working on appellate litigation. The Lead will assist in the training and organization of a team of paralegals who assist in the production of briefs, perform research, and manage case dockets.

Duties

The incumbent will serve as a Lead Paralegal Specialist. Duties include, but are not limited to: - Coaching and facilitating the duties and responsibilities performed by a team of paralegals, assuring that the work is accomplished. - Providing technical assistance and advice to paralegals and attorneys regarding appellate litigation and practice. - Ensuring legal documents comply with the various Federal Rules of Procedure and court-specific rules. - Tracking the legal requirements and time frames for filing court documents, and assisting with finalizing and filing court documents. - Reviewing and editing documents prepared by paralegals and attorneys to ensure accuracy of grammar usage, citation format, facts, and/or legal research. - Performing legal research (legislative, statutory, regulatory, caselaw). - Identifying paralegal training needs and relaying requests and/or recommendations to the Supervisor for development of training. - Administering or maintaining multiple programs, processes, databases, or resources.

Requirements

Qualifications

Specialized Experience Requirements To qualify at the GS-12 grade level, candidates must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service or other pay system. Examples of specialized experience includes but is not limited to: (1) leading paralegal specialists and or legal assistants in their performance of legal factual, and legislative research, cite checking, brief preparation, case management, administrative duties, and other closely related duties of a complex nature in support of attorneys engaged in cases and legal counsel matters; (2) possessing comprehensive knowledge of the Federal Rules of Procedure (Civil, Criminal, and/or Appellate); and (3) reviewing the work of others to ensure accuracy, completeness and adherence to guidelines, manuals or other authority. Other examples of specialized experience may include: training legal support staff on how to shepardize caselaw or compile legislative history; supervising a team; setting goals and assigning work; and serving as a technical authority to resolve unusually complex matters related to case procedures; and drafting or writing legal and non-legal documents. In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the specialized experience requirement - please be sure to include this information in your resume. To be creditable, this experience must have been equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENTS: Merit promotion applicants applying for a grade higher than the grade you currently hold, must provide an SF-50, which shows type of service appointment, tenure group, grade, and salary. Your SF-50 Form must also show the length of time you have been in your current/highest grade (examples of appropriate SF-50s include Promotions, Within Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s over one year old). No award SF-50s will be accepted. Current Civil Rights Division employees are not required to submit an SF-50. All qualifications, time-in-grade, and education requirements (if applicable) must be met by the closing date of this announcement and clearly documented in your resume. YOUR RESUME MUST support your responses to the online questionnaire and provide specific details as to how your experience meets the specialized experience as described in the vacancy announcement. If you are using experience to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, please ensure that your resume includes the month and year that you began and ended each position held or that position will not be credited toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. Part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience. Failure to provide details will result in an ineligible rating. Your latest resume submitted for this vacancy announcement will be used to determine qualifications and supersedes previous submissions.

Education

This position does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Civil Rights Division 950 Pennslyvania ave NW Washington, DC 20530 US
• Name: Diane Turner
• Email: [email protected]