Paralegal Specialist

This position is located in Office of Chief Counsel.

As an Paralegal Specialist, you will provide legal support arising from Federal litigation involving immigration benefits administered by USCIS and DHS, commercial and administrative law matters, ethics concerns, civil procedure, and criminal law issues, along with preparing visa petition appeal briefs.

• Conduct substantive research using attorney files, law reports, statutes and regulations, library reference files, computer databases, and other pertinent sources.
• Analyze facts and legal issues, and prepare appropriate memorandum, discussion paper, brief or report reflecting facts, supporting case law, applicable regulations, sources, citations, and other items discovered during the course of legal research.
• Establish and maintain computer filing system to track correspondence, visa petition appeals, legal advice, and federal litigation.
• Input data into computer databases and systems concerning federal court litigation and visa petition appeals, retrieve and analyze data therefrom and prepares reports and charts as needed.
• Review, develop and recommend to Division Chief and attorneys action to be taken on visa petition appeals, draft briefs and write reports for District personnel in the area and the Department of Homeland Security on behalf of the division attorneys.
• Other administrative support duties as assigned in support of the legal program.