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Finance - Banking
Litigation - Whistleblower - CFTC
Min 3 yrs required
Paralegal - Financial Litigation Unit Duties: Draft and prepare motions, pleadings, orders, etc., for the review of and approval for filing in federal, state, or local courts. Monitor work and reports on progress; responsible for ensuring that work meets contract and attorney requirements and delivered on time. Troubleshoot and perform quality control spot-checks. Must be able to formulate administrative and technical procedures for getting work done. Perform complex legal factual research. Design and develop systems and procedures for tracking, controlling, and managing case files, exhibits, and other case-specific materials. Assist trial staff in coordination with expert witnesses. Arrange for access to appropriate Government libraries and other legal research facilities. Coordinate with other support components in order to accomplish work. Report to Project Director or Operations Supervisor; may also have significant contact with Government officials and clients.
Qualification and Experience
Qualifications: Possess a paralegal certificate. 3+ years of paralegal experience with civil collection or bankrupt litigation including some trial related experience. Sound 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. Knowledge of principles, concepts and methods of legal research and analysis sufficient to perform assigned case development. Knowledge of the litigation process, local court rules and court procedures to perform assignments such as reviewing incoming documents and determining the need for the preparation of various legal documents. Knowledge of legal terminology. Knowledge of applicable automation support hardware and software to automate various legal and office support functions and to perform data retrieval from various legal and administrative subject-matter databases. Skill in operating a computer terminal, personal computer, and electronic typewriter. Familiarity with office machines sufficient to perform recurring operations as well as user-selected custom features, e.g., copy enlargement and reduction.
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