The United States Postal Service has the following excellent and challenging employment opportunity for a highly motivated and innovative individual. The U.S. Postal Service Headquarters Law Department is seeking a hard-working honors attorney to fill a vacancy in the Ethics & Compliance group.
Successful candidates must demonstrate through a combination of education, training, and experience the following requirements: Requirements: Ability to prepare pretrial briefs, motions, pleadings, responses and other documents to present the issues independently with little or no direct supervision. Ability to provide legal advice and services with respect to regulations, practices, or other legal matters, and formulate opinions involving the analysis and interpretation of federal, state and local laws. Ability to communicate orally and in writing to include the ability to negotiate with third parties on behalf of clients and prepare legal documents and presentations. Ability to conduct legal research to gather and interpret information and ensure accuracy of details, using resources such as internal and external documents, archives, electronic databases, and interviews. Ability to establish and maintain effective liaison with high level department officials, supervisors, organization staff, and the general public. Qualified applicants must have or obtain membership in good standing of a state, territory of the United States, District of Columbia or Commonwealth of Puerto Rico bar association within one year of the date of employment. To be eligible for the Attorney (Honor Program) you must possess a Juris Doctor from an American Bar Association accredited law school. NOTE: Qualified applicants must earn a Juris Doctor from an accredited law school no more than 30 months prior to the date of employment. SPECIAL CONDITION: Additionally, applicants must satisfy at least one of the following academic or post-graduate requirements: Standing in the top 25% of his or her law school class upon graduation as measured by class standing statistics maintained by the applicant's law school. A cumulative law school grade point average of at least 3.0 upon graduation. Graduation from a law school ranked within the top 25 schools in the nation by an entity that conducts national law school rankings. Completion of at least one year of a judicial clerkship in a federal court or in a state's highest court at the time of hire. If this job requires qualification on an examination, the number of applicants who will be invited to take or retake the examination may be limited.
The successful applicant will work in a fast-paced environment with a heavy workload to advise internal clients throughout the Postal Service on new business initiatives involving the collection and disclosure of personal information implicating the Privacy Act as well as complex legal issues pertaining requests for records under the Privacy Act and the FOIA. The successful applicant will provide ethics advice and draft communications for the second largest workforce in North America. The successful applicant will draft legally sound Privacy Act and FOIA administrative appeal decisions, legal memoranda analyzing complex ethics, Privacy Act, and FOIA issues, and written advice to clients with citations to statutes, regulations, and case law. He or she will also create visually appealing, engaging training presentations and deliver training sessions to attorneys, clients, and the postal workforce at large. He or she will be tasked with contributing to team projects designed to proactively encourage compliance with statutes and regulations. In addition, the successful applicant may be tasked with ensuring compliance with SOX through filing quarterly and yearly financial reports, answering Federal Register questions and filing Federal Register notices, and completing other compliance-related projects. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Conducts legal research and prepares written material for use in representing the Postal Service and advising postal management officials. Participates in conferences necessary to representing or advising Postal Service officials. Directly advises postal management officials or represents the Postal Service in legal matters involving outside parties or administrative litigation. Prepares replies to inquiries from Congress, government agencies, and the public. Prepares opinions, memoranda, decisions, regulations, testimonies, or formal filings in proceedings in which the Postal Service is a party. SUPERVISION: Manager of unit to which assigned.