Law Clerk I

Supporting the Most Exciting and Meaningful Missions in the World Law Clerk I Conducts on-site taint and discovery reviews for large, criminal cases prosecuted by the USAO. Reviews hundreds of thousands of documents for Garrity material. Reviews documents, creates indices, and summarizes the documents for analysis. The discovery review would involve reviewing documents, creating databases, coding, creating indices, and summarizing the documents for analysis. Performs complex legal research. Prepares draft legal documents, such as motions, briefs, memoranda of law, etc. Reviews documents for relevance and privilege.Lu Assists attorneys with all phases of litigation. Acts independently and/or as a team leader on larger projects. Primary interface with trial attorneys, experts, and other client staff. Produces high quality work using IPRO Eclipse, Relativity, and Excel, including tagging documents in IPRO Eclipse and Relativity. Produces high quality work creating and using Excel spreadsheets. Produces high quality work using PACER/ECR, Westlaw, and Lexis. Works on criminal investigations (including researching and writing on issues arising in contentious litigation such as prosecutorial misconduct) of health care and tax crimes. Minimum Requirements: Must be able to obtain and maintain a government security clearance. Requires Law degree (or currently attending an ABA-accredited law school, having completed at least two years of study); and at least two years of progressively more responsible experience on litigation support projects with a focus on document review. Requires hands-on experience with ESI tools (Relativity, Ipro, Eclipse, iConect and or Concordance) and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources utilized for file management and document review. 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. Candidates will work remote in support of the USAO within the United States. Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. EEO is the Law Poster EEO is the Law Poster Supplement Welcome back! We encourage you to check on the status of your current job applications with us. You can also search for a list of our current job openings and see if there are any new positions that might be a good fit for you. Thank you for continued interest in employment with Amentum. For more than 100 years, Amentum has tackled the world’s toughest challenges to deliver agile and steadfast solutions to the U.S. government and its allies. With more than 50,000 employees on all seven continents and in more than 60 countries, Amentum delivers a broad range of operational support services to meet the critical needs of our clients. Our headquarters are in Germantown, MD. Find us online at https://www.amentum.com/ If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at TAOps@amentum.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis.