National Center for Youth Law seeks Paralegal - $68,765

The National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) advances justice by defending the rights of children and improving the systems impacting their lives. We focus on complex challenges that disproportionately impact children and communities of color and on solutions that require multiple public systems to change their policies, practices and culture. We built our reputation and organizational success on embracing and encourage the collective sum of individual differences among our staff. 

Position 

The Paralegal will assist attorney(s) by providing clerical and research support services including document preparation and review; interviewing clients and witnesses; research, investigations, and fact checking; and trial preparation. This position will include office management functions for the DC office.  

Essential Functions 

• Prepare and edit legal pleadings, correspondence, reports, and other documents.  

• Finalize and file court documents, including generating tables of contents and tables of authorities. 

• Coordinate document productions.  

• Assist with administrative tasks, including copying, mailing, and data entry. 

• Organize, maintain, open, and close case and project files, including building and maintaining SharePoint sites and libraries. 

• Coordinate team meetings, including content management, resource distribution and logistics.   

• Conduct academic, legal, and factual research. 

• Assist with preparation for hearings, depositions, and trials, including set-up and logistics.  

• Assist with case and project management, including maintaining calendars and monitoring deadlines. 

• Review incoming and outgoing document productions using litigation support technology such as Relativity and Axcelerate.  

• Serve as a liaison with external parties including translation services, court reporters, witnesses, experts and co-counsel.  

• Provide technological support, including supporting the rollout of new technology systems.  

• Assist with grant applications and reports. 

• Support and participate in core activities of NCYL. 

• Oversee the daily operational needs of the DC office.