[blindlaw] U.S. Attorney California posting

[Ross Doerr]

ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE 
Southern District of California
12-SDCA-01


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About the Office: The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California is one of the largest in the country. This office prosecutes federal crimes and defends the interests of the United States Government in civil cases. The Southern District of California encompasses San Diego and Imperial Counties and includes a branch office located in El Centro, California.

Responsibilities and Opportunity Offered: The U.S. Attorney's Office is currently interviewing for a limited amount of AUSA positions in the Civil Division for defensive litigation. The Civil Division is responsible for defending all civil actions brought against the United States, its agencies, officers and employees in the Southern District of California. The caseload of the Civil Division includes defensive tort litigation, employment litigation, immigration litigation, bankruptcy, and defense of civil rights cases brought against federal officers for constitutional violations. The Affirmative Civil Enforcement Unit (ACE) within the Civil Division pursues civil damages and penalties on behalf of the United States under the False Claims Act.

Qualifications: This position is open to attorneys in the private and public sectors. Applicants must possess a J.D. degree. Exceptional lawyers who are active members of any state bar will be considered.

Candidates must possess outstanding academic credentials and at least two years of relevant legal post graduate experience. Qualifying legal experience may include work as a judicial law clerk in either federal or state court and/or litigation experience in either the private or public sector.

Applicants must demonstrate a quick analytical ability and the facility to accurately and precisely articulate the critical issues in a case. Applicants must demonstrate superior oral and writing skills as well as strong research and interpersonal skills, and good judgment. Applicants must possess excellent communication and courtroom skills and exhibit the ability to work in a supportive and professional manner with other attorneys, support staff and client agencies. Applicants must also demonstrate excellent computer literacy skills to include experience with automated research on the Internet, electronic court filing, and electronic e-mail and word processing systems. 

All AUSAs are given training by the U.S. Department of Justice and by the U.S. Attorney's Office. Appointment is subject to FBI Background investigation, including credit, arrest, reference and drug use inquiries. U.S. citizenship is required.

Travel: Occasional travel, both within and outside the District, may be required depending on the needs of particular cases.

Salary Information: Assistant United States Attorneys' pay is administratively determined based, in part, on the number years of professional attorney experience. The recruiting range of pay, including locality pay, is $55,365 to $155,400.

Location: San Diego, California. The Southern District of California is home to the largest concentration of Navy and Marine Corps installations in the world. The entire Southern boundary of the District borders the Republic of Mexico. Contained within the District are international ports of entry at San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, Tecate, Calexico (two ports, East and West) and Andrade. The entire Western boundary of the District lies on the Pacific Ocean with a major port in San Diego.

Relocation Expenses: Relocation expenses are not paid.

Application Process and Deadline Date: Application materials must be postmarked by the deadline date of January 25, 2012. Please reference Vacancy Announcement #12-SDCA-01 in your cover letter. ALL APPLICANTS WHO WISH TO ALSO BE CONSIDERED UNDER THIS ANNOUNCEMENT SHOULD SEND AN E-MAIL TO NITZA.WILLIAMSON at USDOJ.GOV TO EXPRESS THEIR INTEREST IN VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT #12-SDCA-01. Applicants should fill out the Southern District of California's application form, and send the application, a cover letter, resumé and writing sample to:

Laura E. Duffy
United States Attorney
Southern District of California
880 Front Street, Room 6293
San Diego, CA 92101-8893

A copy of the application form may be viewed as an attachment on our web-site or may be obtained in Word or WordPerfect format by e-mail request to Nitza.Williamson at usdoj.gov, or by telephone request to Nitza Williamson at (619) 557-6203. Any other inquiries may also be directed to Ms. Williamson.

Internet Sites: www.usdoj.gov/usao/cas/index.html

This and other attorney vacancy announcements can be found at:
http://www.justice.gov/careers/legal/attvacancies.html

Department Policies: Assistant United States Attorneys generally must reside in the district to which they are appointed. See 28 U.S.C. § 545 for district-specific information.

The U.S. Department of Justice is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer. Except where otherwise provided by law, there will be no discrimination because of color, race, religion, national origin, politics, marital status, disability, age, sex, sexual orientation, status as a parent, membership or non-membership in an employee organization, or on the basis of personal favoritism. The Department of Justice welcomes and encourages applications from persons with physical and mental disabilities. The Department is firmly committed to satisfying its affirmative obligations under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to ensure that persons with disabilities have every opportunity to be hired and advanced on the basis of merit within the Department of Justice. This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. 

It is the policy of the Department to achieve a drug-free workplace and persons selected for employment will be required to pass a drug test which screens for illegal drug use prior to final appointment. Employment is also contingent upon the completion and satisfactory adjudication of a background investigation. Only U.S. citizens are eligible for employment with the Executive Office for Immigration Review and the United States Attorneys' Offices. Unless otherwise indicated in a particular job advertisement, non-U.S. Citizens may apply for employment with other organizations, but should be advised that appointments of non-U.S. Citizens are extremely rare; such appointments would be possible only if necessary to accomplish the Department's mission and would be subject to strict security requirements. Applicants who hold dual citizenship in the U.S. and another country will be considered on a case-by-case basis. 

There is no formal rating system for applying veterans' preference to attorney appointments in the excepted service; however, the Department of Justice considers veterans' preference eligibility as a positive factor in attorney hiring. Applicants eligible for veterans' preference must include that information in their cover letter or resume and attach supporting documentation (e.g., the DD 214, Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty and other supporting documentation) to their submissions. Although the "point" system is not used, per se, applicants eligible to claim 10-point preference must submit Standard Form (SF) 15, Application for 10-Point Veteran Preference, and submit the supporting documentation required for the specific type of preference claimed (visit the OPM website, http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/SF15.pdf for a copy of SF 15, which lists the types of 10-point preferences and the required supporting documents). Applicants should note that SF 15 requires supporting documentation associated with service-connected disabilities or receipt of nonservice-connected disability pensions to be dated 1991 or later except in the case of service members submitting official statements or retirement orders from a branch of the Armed Forces showing that his or her retirement was due to a permanent service-connected disability or that he/she was transferred to the permanent disability retired list (the statement or retirement orders must indicate that the disability is 10% or more). 

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