The incumbent will have substantial contact with outside agency personnel and will prepare a variety of legal documents, including litigation hold letters, written discovery requests and responses, privilege logs and indexes.
Performs legal research, including search of statutes, regulations, legislative history, case law and other legal authorities applicable to particular legal matters.
Reviews, analyzes, and organizes facts, documents and other evidence. The incumbent will handle sensitive information, confidential information, and information subject to the attorney client privilege, the attorney work product privilege, and various agency privileges.
Attends meetings where relevant legal and factual issues are discussed. The incumbent will assist the attorneys in the preparation of government and expert witnesses for deposition and/or trial.
Prepare trial notebooks, schedule witness conferences, prepare trial subpoenas, summarize deposition transcripts, draft legal documents and pleadings, prepare and organize exhibits.
Attends trial and assists the attorneys as needed. Investigates and becomes familiar with the facts of assigned cases.
Reviews contents of reports and procedural or policy papers to identify potential problems, and to assure consistency with agency policy. Identifies, defines, and analyzes operational problems and poses options and alternatives to existing procedures.
The incumbent also supports the Freedom of Information Act program. Assists in all matters of document review, preparation, and processing in matters before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), Office of Special Counsel (OSC), and Office of Personnel Management (OPM), as well as other federal adjudicative entities.
Prepares, analyzes, and processes legal documents, such as briefs and advisory opinions.
Provides assistance to attorneys with the preparation of case files including the preparation of discovery materials to be provided to litigants, the preparation of subpoenas and court notices, and requesting and obtaining necessary documents and information from outside agencies.
Establishes and maintains an effective system of monitoring and tracking cases to insure compliance with all relevant deadlines.
Plans, directs, and coordinates a variety of service functions that are principally work-supporting, i.e., those functions without which the operations of an organization or services to the public would be impaired, curtailed, or stopped. Such services functions include (but are not limited to) communications, procurement of administrative supplies and equipment, printing, reproduction, property management, space management, records management, mail service, facilities and equipment maintenance, and transportation.