[Hiring] Hmong Document Reviewer @Contact Government Services

Role Description

As a CGS Hmong Chinese Document Reviewer you will play a key role in supporting various aspects of the company's litigation portfolio including eDiscovery activities, workflow management, and litigation support.

• 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
• Examine, prepare, and process a wide variety of technical legal documents that are characteristically voluminous and complex in format
• Review incoming materials and determine the need for assembly and preparation of a variety of legal documents, e.g., motions, orders, answers, pleadings, subpoenas, etc.
• Obtain needed information from case files, law enforcement agencies, civil client agencies, or other sources, and submit completed legal documents to the appropriate client assistant attorney for review and approval
• Prepare legal actions such 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.
• Ensure legal documents are in conformance with rules governing style and format
• Provide assistance to client attorneys in preparing trial notebooks, assembling jury instructions, compiling witness and exhibit lists
• Prepare discovery for plaintiffs and/or defendants in accordance with governing rules and regulations and with the approval of the assigned attorneys
• Use original and online legal resources to verify citations and statutory references contained in legal documents
• Compose original letters not requiring legal interpretations, but that require a good working knowledge of legal and administrative procedures and terminology
• Produce a variety of written documents and materials utilizing a wide range of office software applications
• Establish and maintain a variety of files for client assistant attorneys
• Search 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
• Assemble and organize files and records material for disposition or transfer to records depositories in accordance with established procedures
• Integrate output from different software types into word processing or desktop publishing text

Qualifications

• Must have three to five years of progressively more responsible experience on litigation support projects
• 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, spreadsheets, and imaging
• Requires hands-on familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources
• Requires Law Degree

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401k
• Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
• Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays

Company Description

Contact Government Services (CGS) strives to simplify and enhance government bureaucracy through the optimization of human, technical, and financial resources. We combine cutting edge technology with world-class personnel to deliver customized solutions that fit our clients’ specific needs.

For the past seven years we’ve been growing our government-contracting portfolio, and along the way we’ve created valuable partnerships by demonstrating a commitment to honesty, professionalism, and quality work.

Here at CGS we value honesty through hard work and self-awareness, professionalism in all we do, and to deliver the best quality to our consumers mending those relations for years to come.