[blindlaw] U.S. Attorney Posting Indiana

Ross Doerr rumpole at roadrunner.com
Fri Jun 29 20:22:44 UTC 2012


ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
12-SDIN-695392-AUSA-CI/IN05



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About the Office: The office is located in the city of Indianapolis,
Indiana. Indianapolis is known as the "Crossroads of America" and
consistently ranks among the best places in the nation to live. There are 31
Assistant United States Attorneys in the office including both the Criminal
and Civil Divisions serving a population of over 4 million people throughout
the southern two-thirds of Indiana. The Southern District of Indiana is a
medium sized district with the main office in Indianapolis, a staffed branch
office in Evansville, and unstaffed offices in New Albany and Terre Haute.

Responsibilities and Opportunity Offered: The attorney selected will be
assigned to the Indianapolis, Indiana office as part of the Civil Division.
The Civil Division Assistant United States Attorneys represent the United
States, its agencies, and its officers in affirmative and defensive
litigation. The position will involve a variety of civil litigation and may
include civil fraud, including health care fraud and defense procurement
fraud, environmental litigation torts, agency enforcement actions,
employment discrimination, financial litigation and other matters. While
primarily assigned to the Civil Division, the attorney selected will from
time to time be asked to support and participate in criminal prosecutions.
This may include investigation and prosecution of criminal as well as civil,
civil rights cases. Therefore, experience in both civil and criminal aspects
of law should be included on your resume if applicable. 

The Criminal Division includes the National Security Unit, the General
Crimes Unit, and the Drug Unit. Assistant United States Attorneys in the
division are criminal prosecutors who work with law enforcement agencies in
criminal investigations and who represent the United States in trial and
appellate proceedings. The General Crimes Unit is responsible for a wide
variety of criminal matters including financial crimes, firearms crimes,
child exploitation crimes, violent crimes, cybercrimes, and immigration
crimes. 

Qualifications: Required qualifications: Applicants must hold a J.D. degree
and be an active member of the bar (any jurisdiction), and have at least 1
year post-J.D. experience.

Preferred qualifications: Candidates should demonstrate sound legal
judgment, a strong work ethic, and the ability to work in a supportive and
professional manner with their colleagues, support staff, and client
agencies. Candidates should possess some courtroom experience in civil and
criminal proceedings and strong writing skills. 

Travel: Some overnight travel may be necessary with some frequency.

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 $51,125 - $135,316 per year based on experience.

Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Relocation Expenses: Relocation Expenses will not be authorized.

Application Process and Deadline Date: Opens June 29, 2012 and Closes July
13, 2012. Applications may be submitted online through the following link:
http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/320359200. The deadline to apply
is July 13, 2012. If unable to apply on-line, the announcement provides
instruction on faxing your documents in the "How to Apply" tab. 

Internet Sites: You may locate this vacancy announcement on our website at
http://www.justice.gov/usao/ins. This vacancy announcement and other
attorney vacancy announcements can also be found at:
http://www.usdoj.gov/oarm/attvacancies.html. 

Department Policies: Assistant United States Attorneys generally must reside
in the district to which he or she is appointed. See 28 U.S. C. 545 for
district-specific information.

All initial attorney appointments to the Department of Justice are made on a
time-limited (temporary) basis. Temporary appointments may, or may not, be
extended or made permanent without further competition.

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, en 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 t 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 1991or 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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