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PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania
Application Deadline: September 5, 2023
The United States Attorney's Office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is seeking an Assistant United States Attorney to develop the District's e-Litigation practices and procedures and to be responsible for leading the District in implementing standardized discovery and case-management practices, while ensuring that appropriate e-Litigation resources are utilized to effectively manage, analyze, and present case data.
The successful applicant will work to:
- improve the use of existing tools (e.g., Eclipse, Everlaw, eZmanage, Evidence.com), and learn new tools as they become available;
- ensure all AUSAs and support staff receive the necessary training to meet the challenges of e-Litigation and e-document management;
- act as the USAO's primary liaison on e-Litigation issues to Department components, including EOUSA, as well as the Federal Public Defender, the Court, and other law enforcement agencies; and
- provide technical and strategic guidance to litigating teams on the collection, review, production, and presentation of evidence.
As workload permits, the e-Litigation AUSA may assist criminal and civil AUSAs in all phases of the litigative components of their cases.
Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.
Applicants must demonstrate personal integrity, good judgment, analytical ability, and excellent organizational, interpersonal, and litigation skills. In addition, applicants must be willing to follow rules and directives, and work in a supportive and professional manner with other attorneys, support staff, and client agencies.
All initial attorney positions are filled on a provisional 14-month basis, pending adjudication of the background investigation.
As needed, additional vacancies may be filled using this announcement.
Office of the General Counsel
Falls Church, Virginia
Announcement #: EOIR-23-0074
Application Deadline: September 13, 2023
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
- Serves as agency counsel for federal court litigation against the agency that relates to immigration law and policy matters, including individual and class action matters, and provides substantive assistance to DOJ counsel in order to: accurately represent the agency's equities and manage all aspects of litigation, including developing litigation strategy, coordinating agency resources, drafting pleadings, responding to discovery, negotiating settlements and attending hearings to support DOJ counsel, as needed.
- Oversees guidance related to and implementation of any federal court orders resulting from judicial and administrative proceedings against EOIR.
- Researches, analyzes and provides legal interpretation of a wide range of federal statutes including, but not limited to, the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, the Rehabilitation Act, the U.S. Constitution and other applicable laws, to provide counsel to senior officials regarding immigration proceedings and/or operating procedures. Determines requirements for compliance with these statutes and regulations and disseminates guidance to agency officials.
- Advises Supervisory Attorney Advisor, Deputy General Counsel, and General Counsel on extremely complex and controversial matters before EOIR, which often critically affect the operations of the agency. Undertakes extensive legal research, drafts legal opinions and analysis responding to the questions raised and emphasizing key legal issues, and coordinates with other components within EOIR to address legal issues.
- Develops and recommends agency positions seeking further review of federal court decisions on immigration litigation matters.
- Advises the agency on what changes should be made to regulations related to immigration proceedings and agency operations so that these regulations will be legally correct and withstand judicial scrutiny.
- Reviews proposed changes in immigration laws and regulations, solicits comments, and formulates EOIR positions for presentation to Congress and/or regulatory agencies.
- Advises on matters affecting EOIR's legislative proposals and prepares the legal position of EOIR in response to requests by other government and private stakeholders.
- Provides legal assistance to other components within EOIR's Office of the General Counsel.
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