Job Description

Wits Solutions Inc. (WITS) is a SBA certified 8(a) company with headquarters in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area. WITS has been providing best-in-class solutions in professional IT and administrative consulting to various Federal, State, Local and commercial customers. At WITS, we believe in working not for our clients but with them. This is why right from the beginning; our analysts and solution-builders work closely with our clients to ensure that the project outcomes continue to deliver value long into the future.

Duties:

• Processes Touhy requests and requests for discovery and agency information into the shared network.
• Demonstrated knowledge of common software programs, such as the Microsoft Suite, Westlaw, Lexis-Nexis, Relativity, Concordance, Summation, and search engines, and legal and research databases
• Identifies and organizes data and documents in legal matters.
• Assisting Law Clerk and or Attorney, perform research and summarizes legal requirements.
• Reviews case material and prepares digest of selected decisions/opinions incorporating legal references.
• Searches for and summarizes relevant articles in trade magazines, law reviews, published studies, financial reports, and similar materials for use of attorneys in the preparation of opinions, briefs, and other legal documents.
• Prepares digests of selected decisions or opinions which incorporate legal references and analyses of precedents involved in areas of well-defined and settled points of law.
• Participates in pre-trial witness conferences, notes possible deficiencies in case materials (e.g. missing documents, conflicting statements) and additional issues or other questionable matters, and requests further investigating by other agency personnel to correct possible deficiencies or personally conducts limited investigations at the pre-trial stage.
• Prepares and organizes trial exhibits, as required, such as statistical charts and photographic exhibits.
• Verifies citations and legal references on prepared legal documents.
• Drafts/edits non-legal memoranda, research reports and correspondence relating to cases.
• Reviews outgoing materials and correspondence for internal consistency and conformance with supervisor's procedures; assures that proper clearances have been obtained, when needed. The contractor shall collect information from the files or staff for routine inquiries on office program(s) or periodic reports.
• Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.

Qualifications

Must have at least one year work experience and a bachelor's degree.

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