Supervisory Legal Assistant (Office Automation)

Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 72,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys in Los Angeles seeks a Supervisory Legal Assistant (Office Automation) to lead a team providing administrative and technical support for asset forfeiture and discovery.

The role emphasizes supervision, training, and process improvement within the Criminal Division. The position requires coordinating schedules, conducting performance reviews, and contributing to hiring and disciplinary processes while delivering high-quality

Qualifications

• Experience supervising support staff
• Ability to train new legal assistants and clerical staff
• Strong administrative and technical supervision skills
• Familiarity with asset forfeiture and discovery processes

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and technical supervision to support staff serving AUSAs.
• Develop and train all new legal assistants and clerical staff.
• Revise work schedules to meet deadlines and workload.
• Create and provide instructional guidelines for division tasks.
• Participate in hiring, promotions, reassignments and disciplinary actions.
• Provide direct legal support to AUSA staff on asset forfeiture.
• Manage documents, storage, and file cabinets; act as document manager.
• Review and approve or reject work to meet quality standards.
• Oversee attendance, leave, and vacations; advise on disciplinary matters.
• Move assignments to improve productivity in debt collection and related activities.

Skills

Supervisory leadership

Staff development

Administrative support

Legal support services

Office software

Tools

Office software suite

Job description

Supervisory Legal Assistant (Office Automation)

• Hiring Agency: Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys

For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys' Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/. As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.

Key Responsibilities

If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team that is responsible for a full range of legal assistant duties. As a first level Supervisory Legal Assistant (Office Automation), you will serve as a supervisor of subordinate staff assigned to Asset Forfeiture and Discovery in the Los Angeles Office of the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.

Typical work assignments will include: Provide administrative and technical supervision to support staff who provide technical and legal assistant services to one or more Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs). Develop and train all new legal assistants and clerical staff assigned.

Revise work schedules related to recovery of restitution, fines, penalties to meet changes in workload considering factors such as constantly changing deadlines, case priority, availability of staff, and processing time requirements. Create and provide verbal and/or written instructional guidelines for the performance of tasks in the division.

Advise employees of their performance requirements of their position, complete mid year progress review reports, and prepare annual performance evaluations. Participate in hiring applicants, recommend promotions, reassignments, awards, step increases, disciplinary actions and resolve grievances that can be resolved at the supervisory level.

Provide a variety of direct legal support assistance service to AUSA staff to include preparing and processing a variety of complex legal clerical work related to asset forfeiture. Produce a variety of written documents and materials using a wide range of office software applications. Acts as document manager for floor, maintaining storage room(s) and file cabinets. Answer technical questions.

Review, accepts, amends or rejects work for which quality standards may not yet have been established. Oversees attendance and leave, approves sick leave and coordinates annual leave and vacation schedules. Advises disciplinary, performance or leave abuse problems to the Chief of Criminal Division. Makes changes in the assignment of personnel and/or functions to improve productivity in debt collection and related activities.

Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys, Department of Justice.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $71957 – $93549/yr.

What security clearance is required?

This position requires a Other security clearance.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-10-09.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.