Senior Paralegal - The Excalibur Group

• Reviews incoming documents and material, considers the nature and the status of the case involved, and with limited instructions from AUSAs 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.
• Assists attorneys to prepare for trial by independently compiling trial and witness notebooks, preparing and organizing trial exhibits, assembling jury instructions, and compiling witness and exhibit lists.
• Using Westlaw and/or Lexis/Nexis, verifies legal citations and statutory references contained in legal documents. Researches to confirm that citations are accurate, complete, and consistent with source material. Proofreads, edits, and revises legal briefs.
• Develops and organizes tables of contents and indices to briefs in accordance with established format. Lists cited cases, opinions, and miscellaneous references in briefs.
• Scans/inputs and links case-related materials into electronic discovery databases and manages those databases. discovery processing and production.
• Assists AUSAs by collating all necessary pleadings for hearings set the following day after checking the court calendars.

• Requires paralegal certificate, degree in paralegal studies, or JD.
• An equivalent level of legal training may be substituted with the approval of the COTR.
• At least two years of litigation paralegal experience required; trial experience very helpful. Automated litigation support experience very helpful.
• Must have basic legal knowledge, including knowledge of standard legal citation system sufficient to perform basic legal research.
• Requires excellent written and oral communication skills, thorough knowledge of legal research tools such as LEXIS and WestLaw.
• Should have hands-on familiarity with a variety of computer applications, including word processing, database, spreadsheet, imaging and telecommunications.
• Ability to consistently deliver highest quality work under extreme pressure will be very important.

• $22.52/hour HW

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