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Attorney Vacancies

All Department organizations advertise their vacancies for experienced attorneys on this web site. You may search the vacancies by hiring component, geographic locale, and/or practice area. Typically, opportunities located outside the Washington, DC area are with one of the United States Attorneys' Offices, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, or the U.S. Trustee Program. The Federal Bureau of Prisons, Civil Division, and Environment Division may also have opportunities in their smaller regional offices. To see where Department offices are located, please consult the geographic areas of assignment section of our web page at, http://www.usdoj.gov/oarm/geo_attorney.htm for more information.

If you are interested in any of these positions, please follow the application instructions listed in the vacancy announcement and apply directly to the hiring organization. If you are interested in working for an organization that does not currently have a vacancy, you may submit a resume and cover letter describing your interest and highlighting your relevant experience to that organization. Please consult the Experienced Attorney Hiring Contacts, http://www.usdoj.gov/oarm/arm/lar/larcontact.htm, that lists organizations that accept unsolicited resumes. Smaller organizations hiring very few attorneys that do not wish to receive unsolicited resumes do not list a hiring contact. For additional information about experienced attorney hiring, please visit oarm/arm/eap.htm, or call 202-514-3396 (24-hour voice message), TDD number 202-616-2113.

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Current Department of Justice Attorney Vacancies

The U.S. Department of Justice is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer. Except where otherwise provided by law, there will be no discrimination based on color, race, religion, national origin, politics, marital status, disability, age, sex, sexual orientation, status as a parent, membership or nonmembership in an employee organization, or 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 are encouraged to include that information in their cover letter or resume and attach supporting documentation (e.g., the DD 214 or other substantiating documents) to their submissions.



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