Attorney-Advisor

Applicants must possess at least four years of professional legal experience following law school. Current Federal employees must have one year time-in-grade at the next lower grade level of GS-13 to qualify. The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

The duties of this position include, but are not limited to: Analyze cases to define legal and factual issues. Examine the pleadings, transcript or testimony, documentary exhibits, and briefs of the attorneys in connection with the issues of fact and law presented. Search relative statutory provisions and legislative history, applicable regulations of the Department of Labor and the Review Commission, and relevant court and Commission precedent on points of law.

Prepare memoranda, digesting, and analyzing the factual and legal issues that are presented including, in some lengthy cases, and indexing or summarizing of testimony or exhibits. Draft decisions and orders for the presiding Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) and address the factual and legal issues that have been assigned. Respond to inquiries by telephone or mail at the request of the presiding ALJ.

Investigate facts and research legal precedents, define legal and factual issues, read, and analyze the record and arguments, develop conclusions and recommendations, and draft orders in consultation with ALJs. Attend formal hearings presided over by an ALJ. Utilize available technology to effectively identify and manage cases. This includes using Westlaw's computerized research system and keeping abreast of changes in information technology.

Examine the motion for legal sufficiency which includes studying and analyzing the citation, proposed penalty, notice of contest, complaint, answer, other motions, orders, and pleadings. Conduct a detailed analysis of the factual and legal issues presented. Conduct legal research and analyze and study the statutes, regulations, and legal precedents, as well as the Commission's rules, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Federal Rules of Evidence.