Senior Paralegal Job in Washington (District Of Columbia, USA, United States)

Job Description - Senior Paralegal

Responsibilities: Performs moderately complex legal research; synopsizes transcripts of hearings and oral arguments for attorney use; reviews case related materials and identifies potentially conflicting statements or areas requiring further investigation; writes preliminary drafts of simple legal memoranda and correspondence. In addition, responsible forpreparing, updating and editing electronic pleadings, organizing exhibits; organizing and updating physical case file and case file indexes; coordinating the copying and scanning of trial exhibits and other trial materials; preparing trial notebooks; hyper-linking case exhibit list (s) to the trial exhibits; assisting with coordinating trial witness travel and preparatory sessions; completing the discovery book with index; preparing the binder and electronic file of all relevant case law and legal research; assisting with the review of the trial exhibits for foundational issues; assisting with the review of the defendants' pretrial disclosures; preparing notebook of case file reports and work papers; assisting with the coordination of trial logistics including ensuring that needed equipment is available; preparing working reference files on topics for rebuttal; assisting with making supporting trial exhibits available; checking redacted trial exhibits to see if any further redaction is needed; rescanning deposition exhibits once the trial labels have been put in place; assisting with updating CaseMap databases including updating documents, witness information & trial exhibits; assisting with updating the Concordance database with OCRing and adding the trial exhibits.

Often works with minimal direct supervision other than written guidelines.

Qualifications: Requires paralegal certificate. 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. At least one year of experience in automated litigation support. Requires sound working knowledge of legal system, legal research procedures and sources of information. Requires excellent written and oral communication skills, analytic ability, and 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.

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