Hmong Chinese Language Document Reviewer
Employment Type: Full Time, Mid-Level
Department: Legal
As a CGS Hmong Chinese Document Reviewer you will play a key role in supporting various aspects of the company's litigation portfolio including eDiscovery activities, workflow management, and litigation support. CGS is seeking an experienced Hmong Chinese Reviewer to join a fast paced and extremely active in-house legal team.
CGS brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve government’s most dynamic problems with cutting edge technology. To carry out our mission, we are seeking candidates that are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.
Skills and attributes for success:
- Conduct research and draft responses for a variety of post-conviction motions
- Conduct research and draft memorandums on questions of law for direct appeals pending before the court and pretrial motions for criminal cases pending at the Federal Court.
- Examines, prepares, and processes a wide variety of technical legal documents that are characteristically voluminous and complex in format. Reviews incoming materials and determines the need for assembly and preparation of a variety of legal documents, e.g., motions, orders, answers, pleadings, subpoenas, etc. Obtains needed information from case files, law enforcement agencies, civil client agencies, or other sources, and submits completed legal documents to the appropriate client assistant attorney for review and approval. Prepares such legal actions as indictments, complaints, search warrants, judgments, applications, notices, affidavits, summonses, subpoenas, rules to show cause, proofs of claim, motions for summary judgment, dismissals, satisfactions of judgment, etc. Ensures legal documents are in conformance with rules governing style and format;
- Provides assistance to client attorneys in preparing trial notebooks, assembling jury instructions, compiling witness and exhibit lists. Prepares discovery for plaintiffs and/or defendants in accordance with governing rules and regulations and with the approval of the assigned attorneys. Uses original and online legal resources to verify citations and statutory references contained in legal documents and to ensure citations are complete and consistent with source material;
- Composes original letters not requiring legal interpretations, but that require a good working knowledge of legal and administrative procedures and terminology;
- Produces a variety of written documents and materials utilizing a wide range of office software applications;
- Establishes and maintains a variety of files for client assistant attorneys. Searches legal reference files for information needed by client assistant attorneys in conducting interview