POSITION OVERVIEW
Legal Assistants provide legal and technical support to
Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), attorneys, paralegal
analysts, and other technical personnel. They develop
and process requests for hearings from start to finish,
independently performing a wide range of actions to
include: scheduling cases for hearings, preparing case
summaries, and reviewing/analyzing medical and legal
documentation.

SALARY & ADVANCEMENT
Entry into this position normally starts at the GS-5 (salary –
$31,083) level with advancement opportunity to the GS-8
level (salary – $42,641) (Note: Salary displayed is base salary;
salary can be increase based on locality pay) . Candidates
with legal experience and/or graduate level education may be
hired above the entry level. See General Schedule (opm.gov)
for salaries in your area. Future career opportunities include,
but are not limited to, technical expert and management
positions.

QUALIFICATIONS
To qualify, you must be a U.S. citizen, and have excellent
communication, organizational, interpersonal, problem
solving, analytical, writing and computer software skills. We
consider additional qualifications such as experience,
education or a combination of experience and education.

CONTACT US:
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