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Legal Data Technician II
Position: This is a Legal Data Technician position providing support to the Office of Management Information of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. This position is responsible for classifying legal cases and recording important case information in accordance with strict rules and procedures. This role requires professional experience in a legal environment reviewing legal case documents and identifying relevant case information.
Duties:
- Maintain a 98% accuracy rating and required production levels/volume of work
- Adhere to prescribed deadlines for processing documents and completing work
- Conduct in-depth review of legal documents and identify applicable information
- Develop search criteria and perform database queries and identify relevant records and data
- Create records in the database (“classify cases”) in accordance with rules and procedures
- Annotate documents in accordance with rules and procedures
- Populate and update data fields in database in accordance with rules and procedures
- Perform self-quality assurance reviews as well as quality assurance reviews of work products of other contract staff
- Accurately record production data in automated system
- Provide support to other CISS Functional Areas such as Mail ID and Miscellaneous Support Services as required
- Assist in training staff unfamiliar with tasks
Work Experience and Skill Requirements:
- H.S. Diploma, college degree desired
- Professional appearance and demeanor
- Professional experience working in a legal environment
- Proven experience demonstrating the ability to read large, complex legal documents and extract relevant information
- Proven experience working in a highly structured and deadline driven environment
- Proven experience demonstrating the ability to consistently and accurately applying detailed rules and procedures
- Good working knowledge of the Federal Court system
- Professional track record demonstrating the ability to meet deadlines
- Professional experience demonstrating teamwork
- Ability to work effectively on multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to think innovatively and proactively
- Ability to identify problem areas, effectively communicate issues to management, and recommend corrective actions to improve processes and procedures
- Willingness to take initiative to complete tasks beyond the minimal requirements
- Excellent organizational skills with keen attention to details
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Good working knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel
- Strong interpersonal skills demonstrating friendliness, approachability and the ability to work and interact with colleagues, government staff and other contractor personnel
Salary Information
$31.69 - $31.69