West 4th Strategy

Litigation Support Specialist

Columbia, SC
Full Time
Mid Level
Litigation Support Specialist/Analyst
ROLE
The Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office – District of South Carolina is seeking a Litigation Support Specialist/Analyst 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.
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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
  • 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
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