Mandarin Language Document Review (Hybrid)

A Government Relations Services Company brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve government's most dynamic problems with cutting edge technology. To carry out our mission, we are seeking candidates that are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at A Government Relations Services Company, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.
Skills and attributes for success:

• Conduct research and draft responses for a variety of post-conviction motions
• Conduct research and draft memorandums on questions of law for direct appeals pending before the court and pretrial motions for criminal cases pending at the Federal Court.
• Examines, prepares, and processes a wide variety of technical legal documents that are characteristically voluminous and complex in format. Reviews incoming materials and determines the need for assembly and preparation of a variety of legal documents, e.g., motions, orders, answers, pleadings, subpoenas, etc. Obtains needed information from case files, law enforcement agencies, civil client agencies, or other sources, and submits completed legal documents to the appropriate client assistant attorney for review and approval. Prepares such legal actions as indictments, complaints, search warrants, judgments, applications, notices, affidavits, summonses, subpoenas, rules to show cause, proofs of claim, motions for summary judgment, dismissals, satisfactions of judgment, etc. Ensures legal documents are in conformance with rules governing style and format;
• Provides assistance to client attorneys in preparing trial notebooks, assembling jury instructions, compiling witness and exhibit lists. Prepares discovery for plaintiffs and/or defendants in accordance with governing rules and regulations and with the approval of the assigned attorneys. Uses original and online legal resources to verify citations and statutory references contained in legal documents and to ensure citations are complete and consistent with source material;
• Composes original letters not requiring legal interpretations, but that require a good working knowledge of legal and administrative procedures and terminology;
• Produces a variety of written documents and materials utilizing a wide range of office software applications;
• Establishes and maintains a variety of files for client assistant attorneys. Searches legal reference files for information needed by client assistant attorneys in conducting interviews and preparing correspondence. Assemble exhibits, affidavits, and other legal documents from file material. Assembles and organizes files and records material for disposition or transfer to records depositories in accordance with established procedures; and
• Produces a variety of written documents and materials utilizing a wide range of office software applications. For example, assignments may include integrating output from different software types, e.g., tables produced by database applications and charts and graphs produced by electronic spreadsheet applications, into word processing or desktop publishing text.

Qualifications:

• Must have three to five years of progressively more responsible experience on litigation support projects including proven capabilities and communication skills to successfully interact with clients and attorneys.
• Requires sound working knowledge of federal and state court systems, legal research procedures, and legal research resources.
• Requires excellent written and oral communication skills and thorough knowledge of legal research tools such as LEXIS and Westlaw.
• Must have hands-on familiarity with a variety of computer applications, including word processing, databases (such as Document Review and file management systems), spreadsheets, and imaging.
• Role also requires hands-on familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources.
• Requires Law Degree

Ideally, you will also have:

• Conduct research/draft responses for post-conviction motions filed by inmates incarcerated in institutions, including motions requesting compassionate release pursuant to 18 U.S.C.3582, motions alleging ineffective assistance of counsel pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2255, and motions for relief pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b). Conduct research/draft response motions for second or successive habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates.
• Conduct research and draft memorandums on questions of law for direct appeals pending before the court and pretrial motions for criminal cases pending at the court.