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Job Description
Title: Paralegal III
Location: Columbia, SC (Onsite)
Job Type: Full-Time
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Experience: Minimum 3 Years of Paralegal Experience
Education: Associates Degree
Date Updated: July 11, 2025
Company Description
Now is the time to join Lindahl Reed, Inc. Lindahl Reed is a professional services company that provides program management, engineering and technical, and management advisory services to federal, state, institutional, and commercial customers nationwide. We offer expertise in the health, energy, and environmental markets. Lindahl Reed was founded on the belief that we can advance a safer, healthier, and more resilient and sustainable world. Our solutions allow clients to work smarter and gain unique insights and understanding into their organization as well as improve decision-making to help meet their mission, business, compliance, and operational challenges – now and into the future. We are hiring creative, motivated, and talented people with a passion for doing what's right, what's smart, and what works.
Description/Job Summary
Lindahl Reed is hiring a Paralegal III to support the Department of Justice (DOJ), United States Attorney’s Office (USAO), District of South Carolina (DSC) in Columbia, SC. The paralegal will be responsible for providing direct and independent legal and investigative support to a busy team of AUSAs and investigators in affirmative civil enforcement (ACE) investigations and litigation. The work requires a specialized knowledge of processes, procedures, and practices as stated under the below position responsibilities.
Position Responsibilities
Pursuant to the policies, procedures, goals, and objectives established by the USAO-DSC, the contractor performs the following duties on a regular and recurring basis:
- Provide a variety of direct paralegal services to assist AUSAs.
- Have working knowledge of, and experience with, federal court system, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, civil litigation, civil discovery, and legal research procedures and resources.
- Organize, track, and manage a substantial quantity of records (often hundreds of thousands of pages of electronically stored evidence per case), documents, data, and discovery.
- Review a wide variety of documents via various platforms (including using ediscovery tools, such as Everlaw).
- Prepare summaries of testimony and depositions.
- Review, analyze, and summarize case related materials, health care billing records, and health care treatment records for attorney use.
- Prepare discovery demands and organize, review, and analyze discovery responses for completeness and compliance with discovery requests.
- Maintain a comprehensive discovery or investigative log.
- Prepare preliminary drafts of simple legal memoranda, documents, and correspondence for AUSA review and signature.
- Provide automated litigation support to attorneys. Utilize various software applications and graphics. Prepare documents, charts, and visual materials for use in trials or case presentations to defendants. Provide technical support (e.g., enlarging charts and photographs, duplicating tapes and videos, and marking exhibits).
- Assist in document review and preparation for witness interviews, depositions, hearings, mediations, presentations, and trial.
- Perform moderately complex legal research using various legal (e.g., Westlaw, LexisNexis, PACER) and law-enforcement (e.g., CLEAR).
- Create and manipulate Excel spreadsheets.
- Demonstrate proficiency in a variety of computer applications, including word processing, databases (such as document review and file management systems), spreadsheets, imaging, and hardware systems (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel and Adobe).
- Hands-on familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources.
- Occasional travel relating to cases, special projects and/or training may be necessary.
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:
- Associate degree
- Minimum three years of paralegal experience
- Legal and analytical skills to support complex fraud investigations
- Independent project management, including tracking large-scale discovery efforts
- Strong interpersonal and written communication skills and a desire to be part of a large team
- Knowledge of DOJ and USAO practices related to civil enforcement and parallel proceedings (Preferred)
Benefits
The following benefits are available to benefit-eligible employees:
• Medical Benefits
• Dental Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Retirement Plan
• Company paid Basic Life and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Account
• Paid Time Off
• Professional Development
By applying for remote work, you are able to set up your own ergonomic work environment.
All positions require a background check after acceptance of our offer. The selected candidate may be eligible to begin employment before the background check has been finalized. However, continued employment with Lindahl Reed will be contingent upon the timely results of candidate’s reference/background check. This position may require special credentialing, clearance, and access as a condition of employment. In the event the government or client does not sponsor or approve your clearance, it may result in termination of your employment. We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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This job description is not a contract and may be adjusted as deemed appropriate in Lindahl Reed’s sole discretion.
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