Job Listing
Assistant Section Chief - Environmental Defense Section
Offices, Boards and Divisions · Posted 129 days ago
About the Role
The Environmental Defense Section (EDS) is seeking to hire an experienced attorney for the position of Assistant Section Chief for the petition for review practice. This practice area within EDS consists of challenges to rules and other final EPA actions under the major pollution-control statutes (e.g., the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, etc.) that are filed as petitions for review in the courts of appeals. One position will be filled in Washington DC or Denver.
What You'll Do
- →The Assistant Section Chief, along with the section's Senior Counsel for Appellate Matters, supervises the work of dozens of the section's staff attorneys on petition for review matters.
- →These cases run the gamut from complex, multi-party challenges to high-profile national rules, to more limited challenges to regional, state and facility-specific actions.
- →Historically, over fifty percent of Section petition for review cases have arisen under the Clean Air Act.
- →While these petitions for review are filed in all the courts of appeals, the majority are typically filed in the D.C.
- →The Assistant Section Chief may also work on select high profile petition for review matters directly.
- →The Assistant Section Chief also provides advice and consultation to client agencies and DOJ leadership on significant environmental and administrative law issues and works closely with the Office of the Solicitor General on cases involving rehearing en banc and certiorari.
- →The Assistant Section Chief is responsible for annual attorney progress reviews and ratings, mentoring attorneys at all stages of their careers, and promoting the professional development of EDS attorneys.
- →Responsibilities also include assisting the EDS Section Chief on non-litigation and administrative matters, and with overall management of the section.
Requirements
- ✓All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓For a list of schools that meet this criteria, see www.ed.gov.
- ✓Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.
- ✓It is your responsibility to timely provide such evidence by submitting proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency with your application materials.
- ✓More information may be found at https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.
- ✓All documentation must be in English or include an English translation. https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 418d810a-eaa8-4157-9b6c-28ea0ab694ee
Posted via USAJobs