What are the responsibilities and job description for the Paralegal position at West 4th Strategy?
ROLE
The Civil Division of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) United States Attorney’s Office – District of South Carolina (USAO SC) needs a Paralegal.
This is a full-time opportunity. We can offer job security and stability, a competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefits package.
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RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support the Civil Division’s attorneys, paralegals, and legal support staff
- Work with array of stakeholders, e.g., case teams, Litigation Support Unit, DOJ, vendors, etc.
- Apply litigation knowledge to help case teams investigate and litigate cases
- Perform legal data analysis
- Perform conventional paralegal activities and tasks
- Perform legal research, analysis, and writing
- Read legal documents, understand legal and factual issues, and determine options
- Interpret legal data and propose ways to manage, present, and make use of it
- Use legal databases to search and find relevant data and information
- Administer technical reviews of legal documents
- Produce legal data and share it with outside parties
- Support legal discovery lifecycle
- Help identify and resolve discovery issues
- Use litigation software, technologies, and techniques
- Learn and gain mastery in eDiscovery litigation software like Eclipse and Relativity
- Use eDiscovery litigation software to gather, track, process, organize, review, tag, and produce documents
- Help case teams with their investigation, discovery, or trial needs
- Advise case teams on the appropriate litigation software solutions to fulfill their needs
- Assess litigation software solutions and recommend options, best practices, lessons learned, etc.
- Propose litigation software that could help case teams perform early case assessment, document search, and document reviews in the most efficient, timely, and cost-effective manner.
- Provide other electronic litigation support assistance, as required
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Strong preference for bachelor’s degree
- 3 years of relevant experience
- Experience with eDiscovery
- Experience with litigation software, e.g., Relativity, Trial Director, Eclipse, Case Map, LAW, Time Map, etc.
LOCATION
- Columbia, SC 29201
CLEARANCE
- U.S. citizenship required since this role supports the U.S. federal government
CLIENT
- Department of Justice, United States Attorney’s Office, District of South Carolina
TRAVEL
- No travel required
WORK HOURS
- 40 hours per week
- 8 hours per day
EMPLOYMENT CLASSIFICATION
- Employment Classification Eligibility — W2 or 1099
RELOCATION
- Not eligible for relocation benefits
West 4th Strategy is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, age, marital status, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy, political affiliation, military or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal or state law.
Other Considerations: applicants will be subject to a background investigation. Individual’s primary workstation is located in an office area. The noise level in this environment is low to moderate. Regularly required to sit for extended periods up to 80% of the time; frequently required to move about to access file cabinets and use office equipment such as PC, copier, fax, telephone, cell phone, etc. Occasionally required to reach overhead, bend, and lift objects of up to 10 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the use of computer monitor screens up to 80% of the time.
