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Job Description
Title: Litigation Support Specialist
Location: Minneapolis, MN (Onsite)
Job Type: Full-Time
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Experience: N/A
Education: N/A
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 Litigation Support Specialist to support the Department of Justice (DOJ), United States Attorney’s Office (USAO), District of Minnesota (DMN) in Minneapolis, MN. The specialist will be responsible for providing comprehensive technical and analytical litigation support services to AUSAs and legal staff across all phases of criminal and civil litigation. The specialist will ensure efficient processing, review, management, and presentation of case materials, particularly electronic evidence.
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:
- Provides technical advice to litigation teams on legal automation options, systems capabilities, and support services available to aid in case preparation, trial preparation and trial presentation. Performs a wide range of information system analysis, development, and installation in support of USAO DMN litigation support activities for assigned cases.
- In coordination with Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs), investigators, federal agents, and paralegal specialists, the contractor develops project management strategies and tools for gathering, tracking, processing, reviewing, organizing, and producing case information in an effective, efficient, and defensible manner.
- Recommends a variety of software packages including database, spreadsheet and word processing applications based on which software would be most effective for organization and management of information and documents, presentation of complex and voluminous evidence or production of graphic demonstrative evidence. Also, recommends best practices and procedures for processing information as part of case preparation.
- In coordination with the USAO's Litigation Support Manager, the contractor analyzes automated litigation support and recommends changes to improve support and to increase the system efficiency and effectiveness. The contractor monitors system uses and response time, conducts cost-benefit analyses, and develops implementation plans.
- Diagnoses and resolves litigation support computer system problems and customizes databases and programs modified to meet individual user needs. Develops and evaluates procedures and computer specifications designed to ensure indexing consistency, and to maximize the ease with which documents can be retrieved from tailored data files on the computer or other storage medium.
- Evaluates new developments in legal technology, including eDiscovery, analytics, trial presentation software and equipment and trial exhibit preparation. Recommends modifications and upgrades of software and equipment.
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:
- Knowledge of the legal process and familiarity with both civil and criminal law at the federal and local level. This includes the content and timing of the government's legal discovery obligations, as well as the issues to be addressed in a meet-and-confer with opposing parties and the role of the Information Technology Specialist in identifying and resolving discovery issues.
- Ability to talk to attorneys, understand legal and factual issues, and subject matter details involved in a case to determine options for managing and presenting the data and to recommend a course of action.
- Knowledge of, and skill in applying, most of the following:
- IT/LS concepts, principles, methods, and practices.
- eDiscovery technology.
- Visual design concepts.
- Imaging technology.
- Performance management/measurement methods, tools, and techniques.
- Systems testing and evaluation principles, methods, and tools.
- IT/LS security principles and methods,
- Requirement analysis principles and methods.
- Internet technologies to analyze the internet potential of litigation support systems, networks, and data.
- COTS products.
- Cost-benefit analysis principles and methods and budgeting.
- New and emerging information technologies and/or industry trends.
- Analytical methods and practices.
- Project management principles and methods; and
- Oral and written communication techniques.
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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