{"7":"yes","9":"Department of Labor -- SOL - Honors Program","10":"","11":"Susan Hutton","12":{"street":"200 Constitution Ave., NW","street2":"Room N2700","city":"Washington","state":"DC","zip":"20210","country":"United States"},"13":"hutton.susan@dol.gov","14":"","15":"Washington, DC\r\nNew York","17":"2022-08-11","18":"2022-08-11","19":["Permanent Position - 3L"],"20":"no","21":"TBD","22":null,"23":"9am","24":"30-40 minutes","25":["resume","transcript","writing"],"26":"","28":"no","29":"no","30":"no","31":"no","32":null,"33":null,"34":"","35":"THE WORK OF AN HONORS PROGRAM ATTORNEY IN THE REGIONAL OFFICES\r\nHonors Attorney positions in SOL's Regional Offices are Trial Attorney positions. Applicants for this position should specifically be interested in trial litigation. Honors Attorneys engage in all aspects of trial litigation under the various statutes enforced by the Department of Labor, including analyzing an investigative file, filing a complaint, engaging in negotiations and discovery, preparing briefs and arguing motions, and serving as lead counsel in cases that go to trial. Regional Honors Attorneys have:\r\no\tProvided pre-litigation advice to client agencies in significant cases\r\no\tFiled complaints in federal district court to recover employees\u2019 benefits and wages under pension and wage and hour laws\r\no\tAppeared before administrative law judges in cases involving Occupational Safety and Health and Mine Safety and Health laws\r\nHonors Attorneys in Regional Offices also may receive select assignments from the National Office divisions to complement their trial work or to expose them to practice areas usually handled by the National Office. Funding permitting, these attorneys will travel to the National Office in Washington, D.C. to participate with their National Office colleagues in training and networking opportunities. Regional Office Honors Attorneys may also volunteer to rotate to the National Office for a temporary assignment, usually lasting about three months.  \r\nDIVERSITY POLICY\r\nThe Department of Labor\u2019s mission is to promote the welfare of wage earners, job seekers, and retirees, to improve working conditions, to advance opportunities for profitable employment, and to ensure work-related benefits and rights. Honors Attorneys play a crucial role in enabling the Department to carry out its mission. Like the Department, the Honors Program is more effective when its workforce includes highly qualified individuals whose backgrounds reflect our nation\u2019s richly diverse workforce.\r\nThe Honors Program endeavors to recruit, hire, promote, and retain a diverse class of Honors Attorneys each year. The Honors Program considers diversity as the unique perspectives candidates bring to the program, including, but not limited to, national origin, language, race, color, ethnicity, disability, gender and gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, marital status, socioeconomic status, veteran status, family structure, geographical background, education, and professional experience.\r\nVeterans' Preference Eligibility and Attorney Hiring: Attorney appointments within SOL's Honors Program are positions in the excepted service, not the competitive civil service, and there is no formal rating system for applying veterans' preference to appointments in the excepted service. SOL nonetheless considers veterans' preference eligibility as a positive factor in attorney hiring. If you have veterans' preference eligibility, please note that information in your cover letter or resume, and include documentation of that eligibility with your submission. \r\nEqual Employment Opportunity:  The United States Government does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.\r\nThe Department of Labor provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need an accommodation for any part of the submission, application, or hiring process, you may contact Chartara Floyd in Human Resources by phone at 202-693-5420 or by email at Floyd.Chartara.J@dol.gov to request an accommodation. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.\r\nRECRUITING FOR FALL 2023\r\nThe Department currently plans to hire four attorneys for regional trial litigation positions to begin the Honors Program in the fall of 2023. There is one position open in Region III in either Philadelphia, PA or Arlington, VA, one position in Region II, New York, NY, and two positions in Region IV, Atlanta, GA.  \r\n\r\nEligibility is limited to graduating law students who will graduate from law school between October 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023 and recent law school graduates who began participating in and continue to be employed in eligibility preserving employment within 9 months of law school graduation. Eligibility preserving employment includes full-time activities starting after law school graduation that can preserve a law school graduate\u2019s eligibility for the Honors Program such as judicial clerkships or time-limited court staff attorney positions; federal agency or state government Honors Attorney programs; or legal fellowships.   \r\nApplicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements for this position will be further evaluated and the selecting official or his\/her designees may interview applicants. Selections are made based on many elements of a candidate\u2019s background, including a demonstrated commitment to government service, a high level of academic achievement, demonstrated interest in being a trial litigator, strong writing and analytical skills, leadership, journal, moot court or mock trial experience, clinical experience, past employment, and extracurricular activities that relate to government service, public interest law, labor law, employment law, or the work of the Department of Labor.  \r\nApplications for the Regional Office Trial Attorney positions will be accepted through USAJOBS from July 1, 2022 to September 12, 2022. Students applying through their law school must also submit an application to USAJOBS to be considered for selection.  \r\n"}