Paralegal Support

Booth Management Consulting, LLC (BMC) is a diverse CPA firm providing accounting, auditing, and management consulting services to public and private clients nationwide, with an employee-friendly company environment that emphasizes quality of life, initiative, creativity, strong work ethics, and loyalty. We seek a qualified, motivated, and progressive individual to join our team as a Paralegal Support.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct legal research using Lexis, public legal document systems, and Hanford databases, such as the Integrated Database Management System (IDMS).
• Draft legal documents using correct grammar, punctuation, and legal terminology, such as correspondence, litigation holds, litigation reports, and pleadings.
• Assist with requests for the production of legal documents.
• Review litigation correspondence and orders to help ensure all actions are completed in a timely manner, including deadlines imposed by courts, rules, laws, and regulations. Assist in managing case schedules and witness lists.
• Assist with litigation holds and managing discovery matters, including locating, tracking, and controlling documents.
• IDMS administration activities entail, but are not limited to, updating and maintaining DOE’s contractor litigation oversight files, correspondence, and pleadings; assisting attorneys in moving information from their working computers into IDMS; and other tasks.
• Assist attorneys with retiring record copy files, preparing various forms, documents, reports, and letters.
• Provide information and analysis of information in various spreadsheets, timelines, or other formats.
• Assist with document review and analysis required by the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act.
• Maintain current inventory of all items in the legal library, verifying subscriptions for renewal each year.
• Assist with drafting, maintaining, and updating desk procedures.
• Provide response and/or correspondence on behalf of the Office of Chief Counsel (OCC), including but not limited to email, telephonic, or via other media.

Qualifications:

• An associate's degree in a related field, such as a study in law; a BS/BA is preferred; three (3) years of experience may be substituted for an associate's degree.
• Full range of administrative support capabilities, including excellent writing skills; ability to format legal and other documents in Word; ability to prepare and draft reports and compilations in Excel.
• Minimum of three years of experience in paralegal or other legal support work.
• Experience with Washington administrative law, including the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals and Pollution Control Hearings Board (preferred).
• Working-level knowledge of CFR 719 (preferred) but not required.
• Possess strong communication, administrative, and organizational capabilities.
• Proficient in Teams and Microsoft 365.

BMC is an equal employment opportunity (EEO)/affirmative action (AA) employer that is committed to providing a workplace that is free from discrimination based on race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law. These protections also extend to applicants.