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CGS Federal (Contact Government Services)

Federal professional services

Hmong Document Reviewer

Full-Time
$60 - $75/hr
Mid
Bachelor's
Albany, NY, USA+1 moreMore locations: New York, NY, USA
Remote
LegalLegal Counsel & Legal Support

About the job

Requirements
  • Three to five years of progressively more responsible experience on litigation support projects, including the ability to interact successfully with clients and attorneys.
  • Sound working knowledge of federal and state court systems, legal research procedures, and legal research resources.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills and thorough knowledge of legal research tools such as LEXIS and Westlaw.
  • Hands-on familiarity with word processing, databases such as document review and file management systems, spreadsheets, and imaging applications.
  • Hands-on familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources.
  • A law degree is required.
Responsibilities
  • Conduct research and draft responses for a variety of post-conviction motions.
  • Conduct research and draft memorandums on questions of law for direct appeals pending before the court and pretrial motions for criminal cases pending at the Federal Court.
  • Examine, prepare, and process technical legal documents that are voluminous and complex in format; review incoming materials and determine the need for assembling and preparing legal documents such as motions, orders, answers, pleadings, and subpoenas; obtain needed information from case files, law enforcement agencies, civil client agencies, or other sources; submit completed legal documents to the appropriate client assistant attorney for review and approval; prepare legal actions such as indictments, complaints, search warrants, judgments, applications, notices, affidavits, summonses, subpoenas, rules to show cause, proofs of claim, motions for summary judgment, dismissals, and satisfactions of judgment; and ensure legal documents conform to style and format rules.
  • Assist client attorneys in preparing trial notebooks, assembling jury instructions, and compiling witness and exhibit lists.
  • Prepare discovery for plaintiffs and/or defendants in accordance with governing rules and regulations and with assigned attorneys' approval.
  • Use original and online legal resources to verify citations and statutory references in legal documents and ensure citations are complete and consistent with source material.
  • Compose original letters that do not require legal interpretation but require a working knowledge of legal and administrative procedures and terminology.
  • Produce written documents and materials using a range of office software applications, including integrating outputs such as database tables and spreadsheet charts and graphs into word-processing or desktop-publishing text.
  • Establish and maintain files for client assistant attorneys; search legal reference files for information needed for interviews and correspondence; assemble exhibits, affidavits, and other legal documents from file material; and organize records for disposition or transfer to records depositories in accordance with established procedures.

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CGS Federal (Contact Government Services) is a government contractor providing professional and technology services to public agencies. The company supports federal programs with information technology, litigation support, records work, data services, cybersecurity, and program operations. It serves federal agencies, legal teams, public-sector program leaders, and mission-oriented operating units. Its operating model centers on contract teams embedded in regulated government environments and supported by recruiting, security, delivery, and corporate operations. Teams work across software, infrastructure, cybersecurity, legal support, data, project management, recruiting, and administration. Teams support coordinated daily delivery.

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