Strategic Litigation Support Lead

United States Attorneys' Offices; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Attorneys' Offices in Dallas, TX, seeks a Lead Legal Administrative Specialist (Litigation Support) to manage and optimize litigation support services for complex cases. You will lead a team, coordinate trial preparation, and ensure efficient handling of digital evidence and discovery workflows.

The role emphasizes designing districtwide protocols, training staff, and providing data-driven analyses to improve trial results and overall office services.

Qualifications

• Experience organizing voluminous case information for efficient retrieval through automated means such as scanning, indexing, and controlling of documents into a database.
• Preparing computerized trial presentation programs.
• Analyzing litigation support requirements to develop or recommend appropriate strategies to meet litigation needs.
• Diagnosing and resolving litigation support computer system problems and customizing databases and programs;
• Performing Lead duties, including overseeing workload assignments, setting goals and priorities, developing operating protocols, and conducting quality control checks.

Responsibilities

• Explaining and setting team goals, priorities, and objectives, and providing information to the supervisor on team performance.
• Oversees team members and monitors workload to ensure it is balanced among team members and assists with tasks.
• Creates and implements districtwide protocols for case information (discovery) submitted to the LTU and protocols for LTU processing.
• Assesses training needs and provides training to team members on all aspects of litigation support functions.
• Providing analyses of systems and complex data to improve trial results and team services.
• Planning, creating, and coordinating litigation support services including trial preparation and presentation.
• Analyzing litigation support software and support systems and taking action to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Organizing, tracking and analyzing voluminous amounts of digital evidence for complex cases handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
• Communicating information related to assignments, work orders, issues, solutions, and project status to attorneys, supervisors, LTU colleagues, IT personnel, law enforcement officers and agents, opposing counsel, and court personnel.

Job description

United States Attorneys' Offices in Dallas, TX, seeks a Lead Legal Administrative Specialist (Litigation Support) to manage and optimize litigation support services for complex cases. You will lead a team, coordinate trial preparation, and ensure efficient handling of digital evidence and discovery workflows.

The role emphasizes designing districtwide protocols, training staff, and providing data-driven analyses to improve trial results and overall office services.