Focused on delivering unsurpassed services in support of law enforcement and homeland security, has a vacancy for a Senior Law Clerk. In this role, you will be supporting the overall mission of the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO). If you are looking for a meaningful, mission driven career, Join FSA!
Responsibilities
- Provides assistance to the attorney while reviewing the work of paralegals and clerks.
- Performs expert legal research and writing at a high level on extremely sophisticated issues.
- Reviews investigative reports from various agencies, prepares summaries of those reports, and notes matters requiring close department review.
- Conducts high-level analysis of facts, evidence, and legal authorities in connection with domestic and international investigations.
- Uses facts, evidence, and legal authorities to create persuasive legal memoranda, motions, and briefs.
- Drafts reports, develops training curricula, and prepares responses to Congressional and citizen correspondence. Analyzes and drafts comments regarding legislative proposals.
- Prepares correspondence for a variety of issues that require a government official signature.
- Coordinates with other support components to complete work requirements.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bar Certified with Law degree
- Two years’ post-JD experience
- Experience conducting legal research using various research tools and law library resources, to include Lexis-Nexis and West Law
- Excellent communication skills; oral and written, to include legal writing skills
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills, and ability to work with minimal supervision
- Experience with the Microsoft Office suite of applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and other common software applications, to include databases
- Ability to work in a team environment, deliver the highest quality of work, and maintain a professional disposition under extreme pressure
This position requires U.S. Citizenship and a 7 (or 10) year minimum background investigation.
Agency Overview
The United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) serves as the nation’s principal litigators under the direction of the Attorney General. The Affirmative Civil Enforcement (ACE) Section seeks to recover damages and penalties, and sometimes to obtain injunctive relief, against defendants who commit civil wrongs against the United States. These cases include health care fraud, defense procurement fraud and grant fraud; kickbacks; whistle-blower cases; consumer product safety cases; civil rights cases, including enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Fair Housing Act; drug cases involving civil violations of the Controlled Substances Act; and actions involving misuse of Housing and Urban Development project funds. In addition, ACE seeks to recover costs associated with the suppression of wildfires and the rehabilitation of damaged, federally-managed public lands.