Financial Litigation Paralegal – Debt Recovery

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services); Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision insurance

Life Insurance

401k

Flexible Spending Account

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Job summary

CGS is seeking an experienced Financial Litigation Unit Paralegal in the Legal department to support enforcement of criminal and civil debt collection for the U.S. government.

You will conduct financial investigations, prepare legal documents, and coordinate with witnesses and agencies, playing a key role in building sound cases. Responsibilities include drafting motions, analyzing financial records, and coordinating with witnesses and agencies to pursue debts owed to the United States.

Qualifications

• Examine case files for litigation worthiness and relevant titles of law.
• Determine the need for additional information, independent surveys, evidence, and witnesses, and plans a comprehensive approach to obtain this information.
• Through on-site visits, interviews, and review of records on operations, look for and evaluates the relevance and worth of evidence; selects, summarizes, and compiles data to examine respondent's deficiencies.
• Review economic trends and forecasts at the national and regional level to evaluate the impact of successful prosecution and potential remedial provisions of ongoing investigations and litigation.
• Identify types of record keeping systems and types of records maintained which would be relevant; gathers, sorts, and interprets data from various record systems including computer information systems.
• Interview potential witnesses for information and prepares them for court appearances; develops statistics and tabulations to provide leads and supportive data.
• Analyze data, develops recommendations for the attorney(s) who will take the matter to court; continues to work with the attorney(s) during the progress of the case.
• May appear in court as a witness to testify concerning exhibits prepared supporting plaintiff's case.

Responsibilities

• Conduct financial investigations and prepare letters, forms, & reports to initiate the collection of debts. Obtain & analyze financial information on debtors. Conduct interviews of debtors and agency officials to assist with the action of pursuing legal action against debtors.
• Prepare and organize evidence and discovery to support debt collection. Sources of discovery include the defendant, the defendant’s family members, the defendant’s businesses, banks, brokerages, title insurers, lenders, employers, and credit grantors.
• Monitor the progress of pending cases to ensure legal pleadings, forms, reports, correspondence, & other documents are prepared & submitted in a timely manner. Examine & evaluate information in case files.
• Draft & prepare legal & administrative briefs, motions, foreclosures, garnishments, & other legal actions for review by AUSA. Develop legally supportable conclusions. Verify citations & statutory references.
• Analyze and interpret tax records and credit bureau reports to assess collectability and trace assets such as real property and personal accounts.
• Use multiple computerized databases and research references such as agency manuals, directives, issuances, court reports, appellate records or legal publications to obtain data related to public records information, judgment and lien information, Secretary of State records, and publicly filed financial information. Determine which statutes, regulations, cases, procedures and/or policies need to be researched. Prepare the initial summary, organize the research, & determine what is pertinent to the case.
• Conduct interviews of debtors, third parties, employers, and agency officials to determine the effectiveness of pursuing legal action against debtors in default.
• Independently prepares a variety of substantive legal documents to include various complaints, motions, judgments, garnishments, and other legal actions to affect necessary pre- and post-judgment action regarding debts owed to the U.S. government to be reviewed prior to filing.

Skills

Financial investigations

Legal research

Debt collection

Drafting motions

Case coordination

Witness coordination

Legal documents prep

Evidence organization

Public records research

Education

High school diploma

Paralegal certificate

College degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

CGS is seeking an experienced Financial Litigation Unit Paralegal in the Legal department to support enforcement of criminal and civil debt collection for the U.S. government.

You will conduct financial investigations, prepare legal documents, and coordinate with witnesses and agencies, playing a key role in building sound cases. Responsibilities include drafting motions, analyzing financial records, and coordinating with witnesses and agencies to pursue debts owed to the United States.