Legal Assistant (Office Automation)

If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team that is responsible for Civil Division and Social Security appeals and provide the spectrum of technical legal assistance work. Typical work assignments will include:

• Acting as liaison with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Clerk's Office and Operations Help Desk.
• Maintaining the master appellate calendar for Civil and Social Security Appeals.
• Having familiarity with the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure and Ninth Circuit Rules relating to civil appeals to ensure that all pleadings, excerpts of record, and correspondence filed in the Ninth Circuit comply with all applicable rules.
• Examining, preparing and processing a variety of technical legal documents, including complaints, motions, orders, answers, pleadings, subpoenas, and libels.
• Providing assistance to attorneys in trial preparation.
• Assembling and organizing files and records material for disposition or transfer to records depository.

• 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.

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.)

GS-8: To be eligible at the GS-8 level, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 level. Specialized experience is defined as performing the following types of duties: providing assistant to attorneys by preparing and processing complaints, motions, subpoenas, orders, or other hearing and/or trial documents and requirements relating to civil appellate cases and social security appeals to make substantive determinations; obtaining needed information from files, law enforcement agencies, or other sources; completing legal documents in conformance with rules governing their style and format; conducting factual and legal research in legal and non-legal databases; using automated software to produce legal related reports and documents;




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