Legal Assistant (OA)

Summary For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys’ Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/.

As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.

This position is also being announced to All U.S. Citizens and Nationals under 27-UT-13089036-DE.

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This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT that will remain open until 2/19 /2027 . Applications will be accepted throughout the open period, and qualified applicants will be referred for consideration every 30 days until the announcement closes.

As a Legal Assistant (Office Automation) in the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO), District of Utah, you will provide a wide variety of technical assistance services related to complex financial litigation actions and matters. Typical work assignments will include”

• Provide a variety of legal assistance and office support to Attorneys
• Examine, prepare and process a variety of technical legal documents which are characteristically voluminous and complex in format
• Review incoming material and determine the need for assembly and preparation of a variety of legal documents, e.g., complaints, motions, orders, answers, pleadings, subpoenas, and libels
• Provide assistance to attorneys in trial preparation by performing duties such as compiling trial notebooks, assembling jury instruction, and compiling witness and exhibit lists
• Assemble exhibits, affidavits, and other legal documents from file material
• Produce a variety of written documents and materials utilizing a wide range of office software applications

Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation.
• You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.
• If selected, you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
• Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.
• You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.

Qualifications SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: GS-8: To be eligible at the GS-8 level, you must meet the following condition as defined below.

Specialized Experience: One full year of full-time specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 level. Specialized experience is defined as serving as the subject matter expert in the processes and procedures related to complex asset identification and debt collection activities. Examples of specialized experience include: working in a collection environment obtaining and analyzing financial information to determine ability to pay; initiating contact with debtors concerning payment of their obligations, their ability to pay, and negotiating written payment schedules to assure successful debt collection; utilizing enforcement tools such as debtor interviews, exams, garnishments or writs of executions; reviewing debtor financial asset information to prepare payment plans; reconciling payment transactions with records and documents and identifying and resolving inconsistences; performing skip tracing; locating assets; preparing a variety of legal documents; and maintaining files.

To be qualified, you must type at least 40 words per minute based on a 5 minute sample with three or fewer errors. (A typing test may later be required.)

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)- The ICTAP provides eligible displaced Federal competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. If your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your ICTAP eligibility; 2) you apply under the instructions in the announcement; and 3) you are found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well-qualified, you must satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and r…