Legal Administrative Specialist/Case Manager

Job Description

Legal Administrative Specialist | United States Attorneys’​ Offices

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at United States Attorneys’ Offices, located in Albany, Binghamton, Plattsburgh, or Syracuse, New York. The United States Attorneys’ Offices is a well-respected organization within the federal government, serving the Northern District of New York. This role is crucial for providing a wide range of legal and administrative services, supporting Assistant United States Attorneys in various criminal and/or civil matters to uphold the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Albany, New York
• Pay: $52,059 to $82,787 yearly
• Team: Part of a well-respected team, supporting Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs).
• Mission: This person manages discovery, performs case development, assists with trial preparations, and provides general administrative support to assist AUSAs in criminal and/or civil matters.
• Tech Stack: Trial presentation software, Legal and non-legal databases

What You’ll Actually Do
• Discovery Management: Serve as the primary support specialist for managing incoming and outgoing discovery in complex criminal and/or civil matters, including coordinating collection, organizing materials, and preparing productions.
• Evidentiary Analysis: Analyze and summarize evidentiary materials, such as witness statements and documentary records, by drawing upon knowledge of the legal and factual issues relevant to the Government’s case.
• Trial Support: Assist attorneys with depositions, hearings, and trial preparations, including maintaining witness lists, drafting subpoenas, assembling exhibits, and operating trial presentation software in the courtroom.
• Legal Research & Drafting: Conduct complex legal and factual research in legal and non-legal databases to support civil and/or criminal cases, and draft various legal documents such as discovery requests, routine motions, and proposed orders.
• Case Development: Perform case development activities and assist case teams with preparation for hearings and trials, contributing to the overall readiness for litigation.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s Degree with Superior Academic Achievement, OR one full year of graduate level education in a related field (e.g., Criminal Justice, Paralegal Sciences, Law). This role requires core domain knowledge of litigative procedures.
• Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-05 level, demonstrating a basic knowledge of litigative procedures through routine legal assistance assignments, OR one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 level, performing routine litigation support with basic knowledge of processing, review, and/or production of electronically stored information (ESI) under supervision.
• Skills: Legal document preparation (e.g., motions, notices, subpoenas), discovery management and organization (e.g., indexing, tracking productions), legal and factual research, trial preparation and presentation, and evidentiary material analysis.