Law Clerk

Role Location: ONSITE 5 days/week in DC (must be located within DMV).

Education

• Requires Law degree, or currently attending an ABA-accredited law school, having completed at least one (1) year of study.

Required Skills

• Requires sound working knowledge of federal and state court systems, legal research procedures, and legal research resources.

• Requires excellent written and oral communication skills and thorough knowledge of legal research tools such as LEXIS and Westlaw.

• Strong legal research skills, including the ability to research statutes, legal authorities, and relevant appellate precedent.

• Advanced experience using LexisNexis and other legal research tools to identify, validate, and organize relevant authorities.

• Proficiency with citation review, citation validation, and Bluebook formatting requirements.

• Academic legal training and familiarity with appellate practice, legal analysis, and case law review.

• Strong attention to detail and quality control skills for reviewing briefs, filings, citations, and legal references.

• Ability to support attorneys with substantive legal research, statutory analysis, and legal authority validation.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting brief preparation, internal brief repositories, and appellate litigation work product is preferred.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Conduct substantive legal research on statutes, regulations, case law, legal authorities, and appellate precedent.

• Perform statutory analysis and deeper review of case law to support appellate attorneys and litigation teams.

• Assist with preparation, organization, review, and maintenance of appellate briefs and related filings.

• Perform citation checking, validate legal references, and ensure Bluebook compliance across appellate work product.

• Review briefs and filings for formatting, accuracy, consistency, and quality control.

• Use LexisNexis and internal brief repositories or brief banks to support research, citation review, and brief development.

• Support attorneys by identifying relevant authorities and assisting with legal analysis, research-related tasks, and authority validation.

Best Value Solicitation Grading

• Experience with brief preparation, citation verification, legal research support, and quality control functions.

• Ability to work on-site 5 days a week at the DC office location without issue (need to be located within DMV as a consequence).