What are the responsibilities and job description for the Trial Attorney (OIL-GLA) position at U.S. Department of Justice?
Hiring Organization
Civil Division (CIV)
Hiring Office
Office of Immigration Litigation - GLA
Job ID
CIV-12698713-25-TLM
Location:
450 5th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20549 - United States
Application Deadline:
Thursday, March 13, 2025
About the Office
The Office of Immigration Litigation, General Litigation & Appeals Section (OIL-GLA) is responsible for the nationwide coordination of all civil immigration litigation before federal circuit court of appeals. OIL-GLA is comprised of more than 360 attorneys, litigation support, and administrative professionals. The office is led by a Director, two Deputy Directors, and one Associate Director, along with a dynamic group of attorney managers.
The Civil Division's Office of Immigration Litigation is responsible for all civil litigation arising under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (INA), as amended (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.), and related statutes and regulations. The Office's work involves issues of pressing national importance. Immigration litigation is primarily defensive in nature, with the volume and character of the cases reflecting the varied personal, political, and economic circumstances that bring persons to the United States. OIL-GLA's central mission is federal court defense of agency action in immigration removal proceedings in aid of the Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement efforts, and federal court defense of individual and class action challenges to immigration laws and programs. The office's current work generally can be categorized across five broad topics - programmatic immigration challenges, review petition challenges to final removal orders, habeas challenges to civil immigration detention in aid of removal, mandamus litigation compelling agency action, and affirmative denaturalization litigation. OIL-GLA likewise handles important immigration matters arising under the INA's Terrorism Related Inadmissibility Grounds in support of national security.
Job Description
Trial Attorney responsibilities primarily involve: coordinating with the agency clients; crafting litigation strategy; conducting necessary pre-trial work; drafting all complaints, motions, answers, and briefs; participating in hearings, oral arguments, and court-ordered discussions; engaging in settlement talks to advance the government's interests; making determinations about whether to seek panel, en banc, or Supreme Court/cert. review of adverse decisions and substantially participating in further review briefing and argument; and handling attorney's fees litigation. OILGLA's Trial Attorneys likewise contribute significantly as expert consultants on immigration-related inquiries from Congress and the Department.
OIL-GLA's litigation often involves high-profile matters, frequently entails short-fuse/emergency, fast-paced temporary restraining order litigation, and ordinarily requires analyzing substantially complex immigration, administrative, statutory interpretation, and constitutional law issues and principles. Some examples of the Office's current and anticipated litigation include: defense of challenges to the expansion of streamlined expedited removal procedures implicating border security; increased defense of review petitions in the federal courts of appeals stemming from a substantial backlog of immigration court cases and expansion of interior enforcement efforts and that raise novel, difficult issues about criminal and other removal grounds, asylum and protection law, and the availability of relief under the immigration statute; defense of the Administration's immigration initiatives reflected in recent Executive Orders such as recent Birthright Citizenship litigation and Orders designed to secure the border, in partnership with other Division components; defense of habeas petitions challenging immigration custody and immigration detainers, particularly under the recently-enacted Laken Riley Act; and defense of mandamus litigation involving alleged delay of agency action and that has increased dramatically over the last several years.
Given the Administration's prioritization and focus on immigration enforcement (reflected in part by six (6) immigration-related Executive Orders signed by the President since January 20), OIL-GLA's workload is expected to increase dramatically across most of these categories. The organization works closely with United States Attorney's Offices on immigration related matters, and OIL-GLA provides support and counsel to all federal agencies involved in the admission, regulation, and removal of noncitizens under our immigration and nationality statutes, as well as related areas of border enforcement and national security.
This is not a remote location position. You will be required to work in person five days a week.
Qualifications
Applicants must be a graduate from a full course of study in a School of Law and be a member in good standing of a bar association of a state, territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Applicants must possess a J.D. degree (or equivalent), be an active member of the bar (any jurisdiction), have at least one year of post J.D. experience to qualify at the GS-12 level; have at least one and a half years of post J.D. experience to qualify at the GS-13 level; have at least two and a half years of post J.D. experience to qualify at the GS-14 level; and four years of post J.D. experience to qualify at the GS-15 level. You must also be a U.S. citizen.
Applicants should have excellent writing, negotiation, and interpersonal skills; exhibit good judgment, and have experience in trial work. Judicial clerkship experience is desirable.
Application Process
To apply for this position, you must complete the online application and submit your supporting documentation. Your complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 3/13/2025 to receive consideration. To apply, please click this link:
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/832796800
You must submit a cover letter, and resume. If you are claiming veterans preference, you must also submit your DD-214, and/or other documentation that you may have.
Salary
$101,401.00 - $195,200.00
Civil Division (CIV)
Hiring Office
Office of Immigration Litigation - GLA
Job ID
CIV-12698713-25-TLM
Location:
450 5th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20549 - United States
Application Deadline:
Thursday, March 13, 2025
About the Office
The Office of Immigration Litigation, General Litigation & Appeals Section (OIL-GLA) is responsible for the nationwide coordination of all civil immigration litigation before federal circuit court of appeals. OIL-GLA is comprised of more than 360 attorneys, litigation support, and administrative professionals. The office is led by a Director, two Deputy Directors, and one Associate Director, along with a dynamic group of attorney managers.
The Civil Division's Office of Immigration Litigation is responsible for all civil litigation arising under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (INA), as amended (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.), and related statutes and regulations. The Office's work involves issues of pressing national importance. Immigration litigation is primarily defensive in nature, with the volume and character of the cases reflecting the varied personal, political, and economic circumstances that bring persons to the United States. OIL-GLA's central mission is federal court defense of agency action in immigration removal proceedings in aid of the Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement efforts, and federal court defense of individual and class action challenges to immigration laws and programs. The office's current work generally can be categorized across five broad topics - programmatic immigration challenges, review petition challenges to final removal orders, habeas challenges to civil immigration detention in aid of removal, mandamus litigation compelling agency action, and affirmative denaturalization litigation. OIL-GLA likewise handles important immigration matters arising under the INA's Terrorism Related Inadmissibility Grounds in support of national security.
Job Description
Trial Attorney responsibilities primarily involve: coordinating with the agency clients; crafting litigation strategy; conducting necessary pre-trial work; drafting all complaints, motions, answers, and briefs; participating in hearings, oral arguments, and court-ordered discussions; engaging in settlement talks to advance the government's interests; making determinations about whether to seek panel, en banc, or Supreme Court/cert. review of adverse decisions and substantially participating in further review briefing and argument; and handling attorney's fees litigation. OILGLA's Trial Attorneys likewise contribute significantly as expert consultants on immigration-related inquiries from Congress and the Department.
OIL-GLA's litigation often involves high-profile matters, frequently entails short-fuse/emergency, fast-paced temporary restraining order litigation, and ordinarily requires analyzing substantially complex immigration, administrative, statutory interpretation, and constitutional law issues and principles. Some examples of the Office's current and anticipated litigation include: defense of challenges to the expansion of streamlined expedited removal procedures implicating border security; increased defense of review petitions in the federal courts of appeals stemming from a substantial backlog of immigration court cases and expansion of interior enforcement efforts and that raise novel, difficult issues about criminal and other removal grounds, asylum and protection law, and the availability of relief under the immigration statute; defense of the Administration's immigration initiatives reflected in recent Executive Orders such as recent Birthright Citizenship litigation and Orders designed to secure the border, in partnership with other Division components; defense of habeas petitions challenging immigration custody and immigration detainers, particularly under the recently-enacted Laken Riley Act; and defense of mandamus litigation involving alleged delay of agency action and that has increased dramatically over the last several years.
Given the Administration's prioritization and focus on immigration enforcement (reflected in part by six (6) immigration-related Executive Orders signed by the President since January 20), OIL-GLA's workload is expected to increase dramatically across most of these categories. The organization works closely with United States Attorney's Offices on immigration related matters, and OIL-GLA provides support and counsel to all federal agencies involved in the admission, regulation, and removal of noncitizens under our immigration and nationality statutes, as well as related areas of border enforcement and national security.
This is not a remote location position. You will be required to work in person five days a week.
Qualifications
Applicants must be a graduate from a full course of study in a School of Law and be a member in good standing of a bar association of a state, territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Applicants must possess a J.D. degree (or equivalent), be an active member of the bar (any jurisdiction), have at least one year of post J.D. experience to qualify at the GS-12 level; have at least one and a half years of post J.D. experience to qualify at the GS-13 level; have at least two and a half years of post J.D. experience to qualify at the GS-14 level; and four years of post J.D. experience to qualify at the GS-15 level. You must also be a U.S. citizen.
Applicants should have excellent writing, negotiation, and interpersonal skills; exhibit good judgment, and have experience in trial work. Judicial clerkship experience is desirable.
Application Process
To apply for this position, you must complete the online application and submit your supporting documentation. Your complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 3/13/2025 to receive consideration. To apply, please click this link:
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/832796800
You must submit a cover letter, and resume. If you are claiming veterans preference, you must also submit your DD-214, and/or other documentation that you may have.
Salary
$101,401.00 - $195,200.00
Salary : $101,401 - $195,200
