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Job opening: Legal Administrative Specialist (Litigation Support)

Salary: $85 236 - 132 807 per year
Employment Type: Full-time
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.

Duties

This position serves as a Legal Administrative Specialist responsible for providing litigation support in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Typical work assignments include: Processing complex and voluminous electronically stored information and preparing it for review or production by the litigation team. Evaluating electronic files and developing a plan for their handling and management. Utilizing software applications to extract or download electronic case materials from storage devices or transfer sites. Generating complex electronic discovery productions that comply with production specifications and deadlines. Performing quality control on electronic discovery productions and, diagnosing and resolving identified issues. Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.

Requirements

  • You must be a U.S. Citizen or National
  • Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation
  • You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable
  • If selected, you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
  • You must meet all qualification requirements upon the closing date of this announcement.

Qualifications

To be eligible for GS-11: you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions, as defined below: Specialized Experience, Education, OR a Combination of Education and Experience. Specialized Experience: : One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-9 level. Specialized experience is defined as performing work related to Litigation Support services such as analysis, processing, sorting and reviewing a litigation teams' electronically stored data for investigative and litigative purposes. Experience in support of a litigation team includes: Generating basic electronic discovery production; providing advice, customer support, and project management in electronic discovery, litigation support projects, and litigation technology software applications (e.g., document review databases); and, building and maintaining document review databases. OR Education: One of the following types of education in a related field (e.g., Criminal Justice, Law, IT): a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; or LL.M. Education at the graduate level must be in an accredited college or university and must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the duties of the position. OR Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed graduate education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements. In order to qualify based on a combination, graduate education must be in excess of 2 full years. To be eligible for the GS-12: you must have at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in Federal Service. Specialized experience is defined as processing complex and voluminous electronically stored information and preparing it for review or production by a litigation team; providing advice, customer support services, and project management services in connection with electronic discovery and evidence, litigation support projects, and litigation technology software applications; and, providing technical assistance to litigation teams presenting electronic evidence in legal proceedings. Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)- The ICTAP provides eligible displaced Federal competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. If your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your ICTAP eligibility; 2) you apply under the instructions in the announcement; and 3) you are found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well-qualified, you must satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and receive a score of 85 or better on established ranking criteria. You must provide proof of eligibility to receive selection priority. Such proof may include a copy of your written notification of ICTAP eligibility or a copy of your separation personnel action form. Additional information about ICTAP eligibility is at: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/. Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)-The CTAP provides eligible surplus and displaced competitive service employees in the Department of Justice with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. If your Department of Justice component has notified you in writing that you are a surplus or displaced employee eligible for CTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your CTAP eligibility, 2) you apply under the instructions in this announcement, and 3) you are found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well qualified, you must satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and receive a score of 85 or better on established ranking criteria. You must provide a copy of your written notification of CTAP eligibility with your application. Additional information about CTAP eligibility is at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

Education

All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, see http://www.ed.gov
OR
Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is your responsibility to timely provide such evidence by submitting proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency with your application materials. More information may be found at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html. All documentation must be in English or include an English translation.

Contacts

  • Address Southern District of New York 86 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007 US
  • Name: Ivy Figueroa
  • Phone: 212-637-2673
  • Email: [email protected]

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