Legal Assistant

Location: Washington, DC

Salary: $25.00 - $30.00 / hour

Hours: M-F, 9am - 5pm (onsite required)

Responsibilities/Duties:

· Filing, retrieving, and copying case file materials; creating witness binders; preparing deposition and trial exhibits; entering data on-line to case files and other databases; proofreading, editing, correcting OCR'd text files; retrieving and blowing back documents and digital image media; tabbing, numbering, labeling, assembling documents; filling out log sheets and reporting on task progress; and performing quality control on the work of peers in all of these areas.

· Prepares documents for image scanning; performs other document collection related activities, including document screening, and labeling of files to be scanned.

· Performs simple database searches.

Required Qualifications:

· Must be able to obtain and maintain Moderate Risk Public Trust (MRPT) facility credentials/authorization.

· Ability to perform detailed work consistently, accurately, and under pressure extremely important.

· Must be able to read and follow instructions.

· Must be able to understand task, task objectives, and the context of the task in the litigation support effort as a

whole.

· Must take the initiative to ask questions when necessary to complete task correctly (e.g. where instructions are

not explicit or appear to be contrary to the task objective).

· Must have typing/keyboarding skills and good communication skills.

· Must be knowledgeable user of the Government's office and network environment, including but not limited to,

word processing, database, spreadsheet, imaging, and telecommunications systems.

· Undergraduate degree preferred.

· Litigation support experience valued.