[blindlaw] U.S. Attorney Posting #2 Massachusetts

Ross Doerr rumpole at roadrunner.com
Tue Sep 25 13:14:18 UTC 2012


U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE

District of Massachusetts 

Vacancy Announcement No. 12-MA-AUSA-08

 

 

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About the Office: This position is located in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts. The Civil Division has an active and varied federal civil litigation practice representing the United States and its departments, agencies, and employees at both the trial and appellate levels in civil actions filed in Massachusetts. There are approximately 26 Assistant United States Attorneys in the Civil Division, including one attorney in the U.S. Attorney's office in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Civil Division defends the United States and its interests in primarily four substantive areas: defensive litigation; affirmative civil enforcement, including health care and financial fraud; asset forfeiture and collecting on financial obligations or debts owed to the United States.

 

Responsibilities and Opportunity Offered: The U.S. Attorney's Office is currently interviewing for an Assistant United States Attorney to serve in the Civil Division and work with its Affirmative Civil Enforcement Unit to pursue financial fraud cases. This attorney will be a part of a fraud-fighting team that will investigate and pursue cases for misconduct or fraud involving residential mortgages including fraud or misconduct associated with the packaging, selling, and valuing of residential mortgage-backed securities and similar financial instruments. The successful attorney must be able to analyze complex legal and factual issues logically and carefully, be an excellent writer, be an effective and persuasive oral advocate on behalf of the United States, have strong skills working with computer litigation support software, have proven organizational skills, work well both independently and as part of a team, and be able to negotiate effectively.

 

Qualifications: Required Qualifications: Applicants must possess a J.D. degree, be an active member of the bar (any jurisdiction), and have at least 3 years post-J.D. experience.

 

Preferred Qualifications: Preferred candidates will have recent relevant civil litigation experience.

 

United States citizenship is required.

 

Travel: The position may require occasional travel.

 

Type of Position: All initial attorney appointments to the Department of Justice are made on a 14 month (temporary) basis pending favorable adjudication of a background investigation.

 

Salary Information: Assistant United States Attorneys' pay is administratively determined based, in part, on the number of years of professional attorney experience. The range of pay including locality pay for the Boston area is $55,637 to $155,400.

 

Location: The position is located in the U.S. Courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts

 

Relocation Expenses: Relocation expenses will not be paid.

 

Application Process and Deadline Date: To apply, please complete the AUSA Job Application found at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/ma/employment/USAapplication.pdf and forward with a resume and a cover letter indicating your interest in the position to:

 

Jack Pirozzolo, First Assistant U.S. Attorney

U.S. Attorney's Office

John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse

1 Courthouse Way, Suite 9200

Boston, MA 02210

 

No telephone calls please. Applications must be received by Friday, September 28, 2012.

 

Security Requirements: Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory preemployment adjudication. This includes fingerprint and credit checks, and drug testing. In addition, continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation.

 

Internet Sites: 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 he or she is 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, political affiliation, marital status, disability (physical or mental), age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information, status as a parent, membership or non-membership in an employee organization, on the basis of personal favoritism, or any non merit factor. 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, 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 document(s). 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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