# Paralegal (Electronic Case Filing)

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Washington, DC, DC
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $25.58/hr
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Leidos is seeking Paralegals in the Washington, DC area to support the Department of Justice’s Offices, Boards and Divisions. In this fast-paced role, you’ll work alongside the program and management team to keep electronic case filing (ECF) workflows running smoothly, providing legal and technical support that DOJ attorneys rely on every day.

You’ll build practical skills in time and task management, critical thinking and problem solving, and communicating complex issues clearly and concisely, all as part of a collaborative, dynamic team.

**Responsibilities**

Working under the direction of a Project or Task Supervisor, you will follow established procedures to:

- Download electronic case filings from PACER and upload them to automated matter management systems

- Enter filing information into the case tracking system

- Create and share links to case filings with DOJ attorneys

- Respond to attorney requests for filing information and document retrieval

- Compile, prepare, and summarise materials that attorneys use in discovery and in drafting motions, briefs, and other legal documents

- Run simple to moderately complex database searches and perform basic legal research

- Index, track, and manage discovery documents, depositions, and trial materials

- Prepare exhibit cross-references

- Support attorneys in the courtroom

**Basic Qualifications**

- Paralegal certificate, JD, or current enrolment in an ABA-accredited law school with at least one year completed. Alternatively, one year of legal training or experience, or at least two years of college, may be substituted for the certificate

- At least one year of litigation paralegal experience or project experience with electronic case filing workflows

- Working knowledge of legal principles and standard citation formats, with the ability to cite-check motions and memoranda

- Experience with legal research tools such as LexisNexis and Westlaw

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Trial experience

- Experience with automated litigation support tools, including Relativity or EverLaw electric document review databases

- Prior experience in a federal government environment

The pay for this position will be $25.58/hr.

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## Skills

### Required
- Paralegal certificate
- Litigation paralegal experience
- Electronic case filing workflows
- Legal research tools
- LexisNexis
- Westlaw
- U.S. citizenship
- Public Trust clearance

### Nice to have
- Trial experience
- Automated litigation support tools
- Relativity
- EverLaw
- Federal government environment

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