| Title: | Paralegal (Digital Evidence) |
|---|---|
| ID: | 1418 |
| Department: | Criminal |
Job Title: Paralegal (Digital Evidence) Salary: $60,000 - $68,640
(temporary 3 year grant funded position)
Division: Criminal (Crime Strategies Unit) Reports to: Unit Supervisor
Location: The Justice Center Hours: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
1200 Ontario Street – 9th floor Monday - Friday
Cleveland, Ohio 44113 (variable shift & hours may apply)
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Associate’s degree in Paralegal studies and one (1) year of experience including secretarial/technical work, preferable in a law office, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Must have proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook) and video conferencing software (e.g. Zoom).
Preferred candidates will have experience/familiarity with platforms such as Evidence.com, Axon, Cellebrite, or similar. Experience with cloud-based digital evidence and case management systems. Prior involvement in trial preparation involving digital exhibits.
FUNCTION:
The purpose of this position is to perform varied and complex paraprofessional legal research, records management, and office administrative support functions on behalf of the County Prosecutor’s Office. This is a journey-level paraprofessional classification, characterized by the responsibility to provide clerical and administrative support in the preparation, processing, coordination, tracking and filing of cases. The employees in this class perform directed technical legal and/or factual research in support of the functional area to which assigned.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Receive, catalog, and tag incoming digital evidence including cell phone extractions, social media downloads, body-worn camera footage, dashcam video, and surveillance recordings.
- Upload and organize digital evidence into a secure cloud-based environment in accordance with office protocols.
- Review body-worn camera and surveillance footage for relevancy, evidentiary value, and compliance with disclosure requirements.
- Redact sensitive or non-discoverable content from videos and other digital media for use in discovery and trial.
- Collaborate closely with Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, law enforcement, investigators, and support staff to ensure timely access to critical digital evidence.
- Maintain accurate logs, chain of custody records, and metadata to preserve evidentiary integrity.
- Assist in preparing digital exhibits for use in court, including clipping and formatting video segments and creating demonstratives as needed.
- Ensure compliance with all legal and ethical standards related to discovery, privacy, and victim/witness protection.
- Performs specialized legal administrative duties including preparation and management of complex legal documents; assists in preparing for pre-trials, sentencings, and trials; prepares a variety of other materials for review by professional and managerial staff; coordinates and may perform related statistical and clerical work.
- Performs routine legal research and compiles data from references; coordinates the gathering of information from various departments in the preparation of legal documents; prepares discovery for cases and organizes cases for trial; reviews and proofreads legal documents to ensure necessary provisions are included; prepares presentations for use in court, meetings, and presentations.
- Coordinates and monitors overall office activities and workflow ensuring timely completion of clerical and administrative support; performs administrative detail, such as coordinating and scheduling activities; tracks and updates files and calendars; acts as liaison with other departments; establishes and maintains confidential files and recordkeeping systems; organizes and maintains legal records and office files.
- Drafts agendas for meetings and prepares posts and disseminates public notices, affidavits, and transcripts to appropriate parties; serves as contact or resource person in answering questions and complaints; provides information related to the work of the office to the public, law firms, Courts, and various entities; maintains calendars, processes documents; maintains and updates legal manuals and resource materials; performs other general clerical services.
- Performs all other duties assigned, delegated, or required of the Paralegal as well as those prescribed by law.
- Conducts business in accordance with federal statutes and guidelines, the Ohio Revised Code, and the Ohio Administrative Code.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
- Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and problem solve. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships.
- Ability to comprehend a variety of informational documents including emails, case law reports, court filings, motions, opinions, discovery requests, files and correspondence.
- Ability to comprehend a variety of reference books and manuals including websites, legal dictionaries, court rules, and policies and procedure manuals.
- Ability to prepare database entries, memos, charts, correspondence, presentations, logs and other job-related documents using prescribed format and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction and style.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of individuals within and outside the Department.
- Ability to use and interpret basic legal terminology and language.
- Ability to communicate with the public, case workers, case parties, co-workers, supervisors, attorneys, court personnel, law enforcement personnel, and employees and managers of other departments.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and understand and use percentages and decimals.
- Ability to type, word process, and operate a variety of automated office machines including computers and peripheral equipment.
- Must be able to conduct business in accordance with federal statutes and guidelines, the Ohio Revised Code, and the Ohio Administrative Code.
- Must possess qualities of fairness, a strong work ethic, have the highest integrity; and must also maintain the confidentiality of law enforcement and investigatory records and other confidential information.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Upload a letter of interest including your e-mail address, resume, and three professional references via the online application process at: http://prosecutor.applicantstack.com/x/openings
All materials must arrive no later than 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 24, 2025
All submissions of applications, resumes, and/or supporting documentation received by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office are considered public record and may be released upon the public’s request
Reasonable accommodation is available to all employees and applicants. If you have a disability that needs to be accommodated, please contact the Human Resources Department.
Equal Opportunity Employer; Smoke-free and Drug-free Workplace
Visit our website: http://prosecutor.cuyahogacounty.us/
