For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys' Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/.

Duties

If selected for this position, you will serve as a senior legal assistant responsible for directly and independently supporting Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) by providing a wide variety of technical assistance services related to complex national security litigation. Typical work assignments will include: Prepares a variety of voluminous and complex legal documents. Use comprehensive knowledge of legal processes, regulations, techniques, and procedures related to national security-related investigations and prosecutions. Independently conducts research of national security issues using various legal and non-legal databases and websites. Examining, preparing and processing a variety of technical legal documents, e.g., motions, orders, pleadings, and subpoenas. Acts as a legal assistance subject matter expert and provides training, guidance, and technical assistance to other legal support staff. Aids in preparing and organizing evidence for production as discovery and for use in trial. Performs extensive searches of record, reference and/or historical material. Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation.
• You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.
• If selected, you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
• Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.
• You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.

Qualifications

To be eligible at the GS-08 level, you must have at least ONE year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 level. Specialized experience is defined as providing assistance to attorneys by preparing such legal actions as indictments, criminal complaints, search warrants, judgments, applications, notices, affidavits, summonses, grand jury subpoenas, rules to show cause, proofs of claim, and satisfaction of judgement; conducting non-complex research of legislation, statues, regulations, and court cases related to a legal specialty area; assisting attorneys in trial preparation with discovery and performing duties such as independently compiling trial notebooks, assembling jury instructions, and compiling witness and exhibit lists; tracking filing, hearing, and trial dates, and scheduling conferences and interviews; and using software applications and legal databases to produce legal related reports and documents, conduct factual research develop tables of contents and indices to briefs. To be qualified, you must type at least 40 words per minute based on a 5 minute sample with three or fewer errors. (A typing test may later be required.) Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)-The CTAP provides eligible surplus and displaced competitive service employees in the Department of Justice with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. If your Department of Justice component has notified you in writing that you are a surplus or displaced employee eligible for CTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your CTAP eligibility, 2) you apply under the instructions in this announcement, and 3) you are found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well qualified, you must satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and receive a score of 85 or better on established ranking criteria. You must provide a copy of your written notification of CTAP eligibility with your application. Additional information about CTAP eligibility is at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

Education

Contacts

• Address Northern District of Georgia 75 Ted Turner Drive, S.W. Atlanta, GA 30303 US
• Name: Denise Baker
• Phone: 404-581-6348
• Email: [email protected]