ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
District of Arizona
09-AZ-05
About the Office and Position: The United States Attorney’s Office (USAO), District of Arizona, is seeking an experienced civil attorney for an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) position in one of the largest USAOs in the nation. The work of the Civil Division mirrors the varied activities of the federal government and offers perhaps the most challenging and diverse caseload of any law office, public or private, in the country. Civil Division AUSAs handle a great variety of defensive and affirmative civil cases at both the trial and appellate level. Defensive cases include tort and employment discrimination litigation; environmental, civil rights and novel constitutional claims; challenges to administrative or regulatory actions; immigration, bankruptcy and suits involving land in which the federal government has an interest. Affirmative civil cases include matters such as health care fraud, defense procurement fraud, and False Claims Act suits. The attorney selected for this particular position will handle primarily defensive civil cases and will represent the United States, its agency heads, and employees in a variety of civil lawsuits with a heavy emphasis on tort and employment litigation. This is a PERMANENT position whose duty location is Flagstaff, Arizona.
Responsibilities and Opportunity Offered: Assistant United States Attorneys have the opportunity to represent the interests of the United of America in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and, in performing this important public service, to exercise responsibility that is unparalleled in any other job that a litigator might undertake.
Qualifications:Applicants must possess a J.D. degree and be an active member of the bar (any jurisdiction), be able to work well with client agencies, possess superior oral and written communication skills, have strong character and interpersonal skills; have demonstrated the capacity to function, with minimal guidance, in a highly demanding environment. The successful candidate should have at least five years of recent experience in civil practice. Experience in tort and/or employment law is required
Travel: Travel throughout northern Arizona and to Phoenix is required and travel throughout Arizona, and nation-wide may be necessary.
Salary Information: Assistant United States Attorneys' pay is administratively determined based, in part, on the number years of professional attorney experience. The range of basic pay in 2009 is $43,922 - $116,250 plus locality pay.
Location: Flagstaff, Arizona.
Relocation Expenses: Relocation expenses will not be authorized.
Submission Process:Your application documents must include: 1) your resume; 2) the attached questionnaire; 3) writing samples; and 4) references. The application documents should be contained within one file (with one filename), preferable in PDF format. Should you need assistance with converting your document(s) into a PDF format, please consider contacting a commercial document copying / handling service of your choice.
Please send your application file to Carrie.Dokken@usdoj.gov by May 13, 2009
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 based on sex, sexual orientation, color, race, religion, national origin, politics, marital status, disability, age, 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.