The Role
Provide legal support for DOJ healthcare fraud and opioid cases: assist attorneys with pleadings, discovery, legal research, case management, document review and preparation, maintain case files, prepare memoranda and reports, and use tools like IPRO, CaseMap, QuickBooks, and Microsoft Office. Role requires progressive relevant experience, a paralegal certificate, and U.S. citizenship; primary workstation in Providence with limited telework.
Summary Generated by Built In
ROLE
We need an experienced Legal Assistant to support the U.S. Department of Justice with healthcare fraud and opioid-related cases. This is a full-time opportunity in which we’ll provide competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and job stability and security. Apply today!
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Perform standard legal support job responsibilities
- Assist with pleadings, discovery, briefs, bankruptcy petitions, etc.
- Perform critical thinking and analytical activities
- Review legal instruments
- Verify that legal information is complete and accurate
- Confirm that legal information is ready for proper execution
- Assist attorneys and legal support staff
- Conduct legal research for cases
- Gather facts for cases and routine reports
- Use legal databases for research and discovery
- Evaluate and determine the correction of an action
- Research legal records to ascertain conditions that might preclude an action
- Help with scanning, exporting and importing data, etc.
- Perform initial review of petitions
- Support case management
- Maintain case files
- Prepare memorandums, reports and correspondence
- Take notes and prepare follow-on documentation
- Work with technologies such as but not limited to IPRO, CaseMap, QuickBooks, and Microsoft
BACKGROUND
- Progressive and relevant experience
EDUCATION
- Paralegal Certificate
- Strong preference for an Associate degree or some college education
- Preference for Bachelor’s degree
LOCATION
- Providence, RI 02903
TELEWORK
- Up to two (2) days per week
CLEARANCE
- U.S. citizenship required since this role supports the U.S. federal government
CLIENT
- Department of Justice
TRAVEL
- No travel required
WORK HOURS
- 40 hours per week
- 8 hours per day
- Overtime Eligible
EMPLOYMENT CLASSIFICATION
- Employment Classification Eligibility —Non-Exempt
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KMRG, LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, age, marital status, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy, political affiliation, military or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal or state law.
Other Considerations: applicants will be subject to a background investigation. Individual’s primary workstation is located in an office area. The noise level in this environment is low to moderate. Regularly required to sit for extended periods up to 100% of the time; frequently required to move about to access file cabinets and use office equipment such as PC, copier, fax, telephone, cell phone, etc. Occasionally required to reach overhead, bend, and lift objects of up to 10 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the use of computer monitor screens up to 100% of the time.
Skills Required
- Paralegal Certificate
- Progressive and relevant legal support experience
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to pass a background investigation
- Experience with IPRO, CaseMap, QuickBooks, and Microsoft Office
- Associate degree or some college education
- Bachelor's degree
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The Company
What We Do
KMRG, LLC is a forward-thinking federal government contractor that empowers public-sector leaders to embrace disruptive technologies and catalyze innovation. The company delivers advanced management and technology solutions in software engineering, cloud enablement, digital modernization, artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, and data science, aiming to fuel progress and shape a future-ready government that is capable of navigating tomorrow's uncertainties.
