Litigation Support Specialist ROLE The Civil Division of the United States Attorney's Office - District of South Carolina is seeking a Litigation Support Specialist with experience supporting attorneys and staff. In this role, you will support the Affirmative Civil Enforcement team by utilizing current litigation support techniques, software, and equipment to provide complex legal support and technical assistance on such electronic systems as Everlaw, Relativity, Eclipse, and OnCue. Your responsibilities include advising case teams on best practices for the preparation of documents and how to best use litigation support technologies to support projects; assisting with productions of material both to and from external parties; training attorneys, paralegals, and other personnel on litigation applications; assisting in the organization and search of investigative materials; and championing the need to engage eDiscovery specialists in the early stages of cases. This is a full-time opportunity. We can offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package. Apply today! RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide technical advice on legal automation options, systems capabilities, and support services
- Ensure procedures for electronic discovery and litigation support projects are consistently applied
- Coordinate with AUSAs, investigators, federal agents, and legal support staff, the contractor
- Consult with case teams to effectively develop and apply technical strategies, requirements, and goals
- Implement project plans, including data collection, processing, document review, document production and trial
- Use tools to gather, track, process, review, organize, and produce case information in a defensible manner
- Advise legal team on technology options to respond to specific discovery needs
- Stay abreast of emerging electronic discovery litigation support technology and processes
- Create case databases for processing electronically stored information (ESI), case review, and trial presentations
- Recommended best practices and procedures for collecting and searching electronically stored information
- Organize voluminous case information
- Retrieve information through processing ESIs, scanning, indexing, and producing documents into a database
- Ensure documents are organized for efficient electronic storage and retrieval by processing ESIs
- Define deduplication scope, quality control, and prepare appropriate indices
- Ensure tech is responsive to the attorney and case needs and that it represents the best methodology
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
- Operate PCs, laptops, printers, plotters, HDMI TVs and DVD/Blu-ray players, and eDiscovery processing
- MS Office and Adobe Acrobat Professional
- Experience with litigation support software applications such as: Everlaw, Relativity, Eclipse, OnCue, LAW, Nuix, etc.
- Experience analyzing incoming electronic data to determine appropriate processing requirements
- Experience with performing complex electronic data searches, managing the technical administration of document reviews, and producing data to outside parties using common litigation support platforms
- Experience with IT/LS concepts, principles, methods, and practices, eDiscovery technology, Visual design concepts, Imaging technology
EDUCATION
- Associate degree
- 3 years of experience in a litigation support, electronic discovery and/or technology support environment
LOCATION
- 1441 Main Street, Suite 500, Columbia, SC 29201
CLEARANCE
- U.S. citizenship required since this role supports the U.S. federal government
CLIENT
- Department of Justice, United States Attorney's Office, District of South Carolina
TRAVEL
WORK HOURS
- 40 hours per week, 8 hours per day, 8:30am - 5:00pm
- 30 minute lunch break (unpaid)
EMPLOYMENT CLASSIFICATION
- Employment Classification Eligibility - W2
RELOCATION
- Not eligible for relocation benefits
COMPENSATION
- Salary offered: $70,000
- Benefits: Benefits package includes options for health, dental, and vision insurance coverage; 401k contribution options
West 4th Strategy is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, age, marital status, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy, political affiliation, military or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal or state law. Other Considerations: applicants will be subject to a background investigation. Individual's primary workstation is located in an office area. The noise level in this environment is low to moderate. Regularly required to sit for extended periods up to 80% of the time; frequently required to move about to access file cabinets and use office equipment such as PC, copier, fax, telephone, cell phone, etc. Occasionally required to reach overhead, bend, and lift objects of up to 10 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the use of computer monitor screens up to 80% of the time.
