Senior Paralegal - The Excalibur Group

• Works under the direction of Supervisory Paralegal or Project Supervisor.
• Directly and independently support one or more AUSAs by providing a wide variety of technical paralegal services, particularly in Affirmative Civil Enforcement (ACE) investigations and trials.
• Gathers factual material independently; reads, annotates, and summarizes transcripts, files and other factual aspects of the case; obtains financial and statistical information, agency records, court records and other public records; analyzes documents, and drafts factual memoranda.
• Reviews and analyzes the financial and management operations of a variety of organizations.
• Gathers and examines a wide array of financial documents obtained from a variety of sources, including financial statements, billing records, invoices, data processing material, bank records, and other documents.
• Performs simple legal research; indexes, tracks and controls exhibits and other materials at depositions and at trial.
• Assists attorneys in courtroom; prepares exhibit cross-references.
• Screens documents for relevance and privilege according to established guidelines and criteria.
• Research discrimination complaints.
• Interviews community stakeholders, victims, and residents.
• Assists trial attorneys with vetting expert consultants, scheduling court reporters, cite checking, preparing trial exhibits, preparing briefing and witness materials.
• Assists with document coding and reviewing production of records and case related discovery.
• Assists trial attorneys in civil court proceedings.

• Requires paralegal certificate, degree in paralegal studies, or JD.
• 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.

• $25.39/hour

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