Jr. Legal Assistant

• Schedule appointments, meetings, engagements, and conferences
• Receive and review incoming correspondence and forwards each item to the appropriate AUSA or to other staff based on a knowledge of the duties and functions of the United States Attorney's Office
• Receive telephone calls and visitors, screening those which can be handled without help.
• Maintain legal and general office files.
• Review, screen, and control incoming mail.
• Review outgoing correspondence for procedural and grammatical accuracy, format, and presentation. Brings errors to the attention of the writer.
• Searches file for material used in recurring reports. Assembles file data or secures data from staff members into the proper format based on the purpose and nature of the report.
• Makes travel arrangement, secure accommodations and maintains contact while the Government traveler is in travel status.
• Produce written documents utilizing a range of office automation software.
• Retrieves required information from various files and records and prepares legal documents with complicated formatting.

Ensures proper spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar. Consults with document author to resolve questionable material.

Use office software, such as MS Office Suite, Adobe and CaseView.

Qualifications :

• Must be able to obtain and maintain MRPT facility credentials / authorization. Note : US Citizenship is required for MRPT facility credentials / authorization at this work location.
• One year of experience on major litigation support projects or undergraduate degree.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently in a team environment.
• Must have excellent writing skills and oral communication capabilities.
• Requires hands-on familiarity with the Government's office and network environment, including but not limited to, data processing environments, including office automation networks, PC-based databases and other applications, internet and server-based databases and other applications.
• Should be a knowledgeable user of the Government's office and network environment, including but not limited to, word processing, spreadsheet, imaging, and hardware systems.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.