21 May
FOIA Paralegal III
Vacancy expired!
- Assist attorneys in providing review over Legal Clerk and Paralegal/Legal Assistant II work products.
- Assist with reviewing all incoming FOIA requests and input specific information from those requests into the client’s FOIAXpress system.
- Review a specified number of FOIA cases per month which will involve sending document search requests, process documents received, and draft determination letters.
- Prepare correspondence to the requestor as appropriate including an acknowledgement letter, a fee request letter, periodic status updates, and a final response Tasks
- Prepare FOIA referral/consultation letters to other Government agencies as well as process FOIA referral/consultation letters received from other Government agencies
- Analyzes and evaluates case files against legal standards.
- Notes and corrects case file deficiencies (e.g., missing documents, inconsistent material, leads not investigated) before sending the case on to the concerned trial attorney.
- Reviews and analyzes available precedents relevant to cases under consideration for use in presenting case summaries to trial attorneys.
- Gathers, sorts, classifies, and interprets data to discover patterns of possible discrimination activity.
- Interviews relevant personnel and potential witnesses to gather information.
- Reviews and analyzes relevant statistics.
- Performs statistical evaluations such as standard deviations, analyses of variance, means, modes, and ranges as supporting data for case litigation.
- Consults with statistical experts on reliability evaluations.
- May testify in court concerning relevant data.
- 5-8 years of paralegal experience required.
- Strong working knowledge of legal system, legal research procedures, and sources of information.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, analytic ability, and thorough knowledge of legal research tools.
- Hands-on familiarity with a variety of computer applications, including word processing, database, Spreadsheet, and telecommunications.
- Ability to consistently deliver highest quality work under extreme pressure.
- Possess a paralegal certificate
- Trial experience desirable
- Strong experience with FOIA desirable
- Records Management experience
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