Paralegal III

Cameo Consulting Group, LLC, a management consulting practice is seeking several qualified and available Paralegals to support a potential Federal client in Columbia, SC. The positions are full-time and long-term in nature.

General Duties:

·       Seek information and locate new sources of information in aid of ACE investigations and litigation through contacts or correspondence with law enforcement as well as officials from other governmental agencies, witnesses and counsel.

·       Independently gather factual material.

·       Read, annotate, and summarize transcripts, files, and other aspects of the case file.

·       Prepare case-summary binders.

·       Obtain financial and statistical information.

·       Obtain agency, court, and other public records.

·       Analyze documents and draft court filings and memoranda for AUSA review.

·       Working knowledge of, and experience with, federal court system, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, civil litigation, civil discovery, and legal research procedures and resources.

·       Organize, track, and manage a substantial quantity of records (often hundreds of thousands of pages of electronically stored evidence per case), documents, data, and discovery.

·       Review a wide variety of documents via various platforms (including using e-discovery tools, such as Everlaw).

·       Prepare summaries of testimony and depositions.

·       Review, analyze, and summarize case related materials, health care billing records, and health care treatment records for attorney use.

·       Prepare discovery demands and organize, review, and analyze discovery responses for completeness and compliance with discovery requests.

·       Maintain a comprehensive discovery or investigative log.

·       Prepare preliminary drafts of simple legal memoranda, documents, and correspondence for AUSA review and signature.

·       Provide automated litigation support to attorneys. Utilize various software applications and graphics. Prepare documents, charts, and visual materials for use in trials or case presentations to defendants. Provide technical support (e.g., enlarging charts and photographs, duplicating tapes and videos, and marking exhibits).

·       Assist in document review and preparation for witness interviews, depositions, hearings, mediations, presentations, and trial.

·       Perform moderately complex legal research using various legal (e.g., Westlaw, LexisNexis, PACER) and law-enforcement (e.g., CLEAR).

·       Create and manipulate Excel spreadsheets.

·       Demonstrate proficiency in a variety of computer applications, including word processing, databases (such as document review and file management systems), spreadsheets, imaging, and hardware systems (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel and Adobe).

·       Hands-on familiarity with ESI tools and knowledge of eDiscovery procedures and resources.

·       Occasional travel relating to cases, special projects and/or training may be necessary.

Desired Qualifications:

·       Associate degree

·       Minimum three years of paralegal experience

·       Legal and analytical skills to support complex fraud investigations

·       Independent project management, including tracking large-scale discovery efforts

·       Strong interpersonal and written communication skills and a desire to be part of a large team

·       Knowledge of DOJ and USAO practices related to civil enforcement and parallel proceedings (Preferred)

Place of Performance:

U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of South Carolina

1441 Main St. Suite 500

Columbia, SC 29201

About Cameo:

Cameo provides a competitive benefit package to its employees that is replete with training programs and continuous education features that few others even attempt to duplicate. Our packages are offered to all full-time exempt employees on day one* and they offer many standard features one would expect to find from an industry leader, the details of which are outlined in our handbook. Below is a highlight of our benefit offerings:

• 401k Plan
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance Plans
• Short & Long-Term Disability Plan
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 11 Paid Federal Holidays
• Jury Duty and Bereavement Leave
• Short and Long-term disability insurance options
• 2 weeks of paid vacation time and 40 hours of Sick Leave