Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
Service Contract Act Directory of Occupations
29361 Paralegal/Legal Assistant I
Work is performed under close supervision, with required assistance readily available. Work includes, typically, several of the following duties:
- Consults prescribed sources of information for facts relating to matters of interest to the program;
- Reviews documents to extract selected data and information relating to specific items;
- Reviews and summarizes information in prescribed format on case precedent and decisions;
- Searches and extracts legal references in libraries and computer-data banks;
- Attends hearings or court appearances to become informed on administrative and/or court procedures and the status of cases, and where necessary, assists in the presentation of charts and other visual information.
