Description
Leidos is looking for a Senior Paralegal to join our Washington, DC team supporting the United States Attorney's Office (USAO) for the District of Columbia.
The work requires knowledge of laws, precedential decisions, and federal criminal and civil procedure. The position requires knowledge of the principles, concepts and methods of financial litigation and legal research and analysis sufficient to perform assigned case development. The position will be required to perform legal research sufficient to compose legal documents and correspondence, verify citations and statutory references, search for, analyze for legal relevance and summarize data, draw conclusions, and recommend appropriate action. This work is performed in close collaboration with the Financial Litigation Unit (FLU) technicians assigned to a case.
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Primary Responsibilities:
- Based on the nature of the legal issue or case, prepares a variety of substantive legal documents, including subpoenas, notices of deposition, interrogatories, document requests, garnishments, and applications for writ of execution. These documents are drafted for review and approval of Assistant U.S. Attorneys prior to issue. Upon approval, processes documents and performs necessary follow-up.
- Reviews and maintains inventory of documents and other materials produced pursuant to subpoena or other discovery requests.
- Conducts interviews or review depositions of debtors and witnesses to assist Assistant U.S. Attorneys in conducting financial litigation and collection; research, analyze and summarize relevant legal precedents for applicability to assigned cases.
- Use a variety of automated research tools as well as public information databases and other automated resources to research the financial background of a debtor and the case.
- Prepares and maintains a variety of discovery-related documents, e.g. discovery letters, production logs, privilege logs, deposition lists and digests, by applying a thorough knowledge of the Federal Rules of Evidence and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and application of practical litigative experience.
- Provides litigative case management and organizes cases by preparing and organizing discovery and exhibits. Notes deficiencies in case materials, g., missing documents, conflicting statements, and request further investigation by personnel to correct deficiencies, or personally conducts limited investigations.
- Maintains regular contact with the applicable federal agencies to ensure compliance with department-wide directives regarding financial litigation.
- Monitors the progress of pending cases and initiates action to ensure that legal pleadings, forms, reports, correspondence, and other documents are prepared and submitted within established deadlines.
- Keeps appropriate staff members informed about the status of cases.
- Compiles, organizes, and indexes various discovery and evidence exhibits, and witness testimony.
- Works closely with FLU attorneys to ensure material is efficiently arranged.
- Performs a variety of administrative duties in support of the Unit.
Basic Qualifications:
- Requires paralegal certificate, or JD, or currently attending an ABA-accredited law school, having completed at least one year of study, or an equivalent level of legal training or experience; or an equivalent level of education may be substituted Additionally at least two years of litigation paralegal experience or project experience (as related to the task order) is required.
- At least one year of experience in automated litigation support.
- Requires sound working knowledge of federal and state court system, 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 (such as document review and file management systems), spreadsheets, imaging, and hardware systems.
- Role also requires hands-on familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources.
- Ability to consistently deliver highest quality work under extreme pressure will be very important.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working in a Government and/or Litigation Support environment.
- Strong analytic, organizational, and writing skills.
- Paralegal certificate, or JD
- At least two years of litigation paralegal experience
This position is covered under the Service Contract Act and is subject to minimum requirements. Leidos ensures that all provisions are satisfied. The pay for this position will be $31.69/hr.
In 2025, Leidos was ranked as one of the "World's Most Ethical Companies" by the Ethisphere Institute for the eight consecutive year.
Original Posting:
July 11, 2025
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range -
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.