Description
Leidos is seeking Paralegals located in the Washington DC area. You will work in a fast-paced and diverse environment assisting the program and management team with workflows for electronic case filings (ECF).
In this role, you will gain skills, such as time and task management, critical thinking and problem solving, and the ability to communicate complicated problems in a concise manner.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Perform intake and track hundreds to thousands of claims in any given matter.
- Enter claims filing information into an Excel tracking system.
- Proofread settlement memos for content and details in formatting.
- Respond to DOJ attorney requests for filing information and retrieval.
- Conduct simple to moderately complex database searches.
- Perform simple legal research.
- Assist DOJ attorneys in preparation for trials.
Basic Qualifications:
- Requires paralegal certificate, JD, or currently attending an ABA-accredited law school, having completed at least one year of study. One (1) year of legal training or legal experience or at least two (2) years of college education may be substituted for the paralegal certificate.
- At least one (1) year of litigation paralegal experience or project experience.
- Experience with primary litigation with a solid general litigation experience, including support preparing for trial.
- Experience using Excel for creating tracking spreadsheets and developing processes for claims intake and review.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Experience with legal research tools such as LEXIS and Westlaw.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent proofreading skills.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Solid general litigation support experience.
- Prior experience working in a Federal Government environment.
- Trial preparation experience.
- Claims processing experience is a plus.
- Experience with BlueBooking and Cite Checking.
- Experience with Relativity or another review platform is a plus.
The pay for this position will be $25.58/hr.