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General Attorney (Immigration-Appellate)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Posted 98 days ago
About the Role
Join the dedicated appellate practitioners of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of the Principal Legal Advisor's (OPLA) Immigration Law and Practice Division (ILPD) across the country and assist in shaping immigration law to protect our homeland. General Schedule locality pay tables may be found under Salaries & Wages.
What You'll Do
- →OPLA is the largest legal program in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), employing over 3,000 attorneys nationwide to provide a full range of legal services to all ICE programs and offices.
- →OPLA's Enforcement, General Law, and Litigation (EG&L) divisions, through close client engagement, advance ICE's homeland security and public safety mission by providing expert legal advice and guidance to ICE personnel enforcing our nation's immigration, customs, and criminal laws and policies.
- →Counsel in EG&L also defend the operational authorities and decisions of ICE officers and agents in federal courts and support the advocacy of ICE attorneys before immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), with special emphasis on cases involving criminal aliens, human rights violators, and aliens who threaten our national security.
- →ILPD attorneys provide immigration law subject-matter expertise and appellate advocacy before the BIA, including the preparation of briefs, motions, and other pleadings.
- →Represent ICE's interests in federal court litigation on novel or complex immigration law issues, regularly contribute to document review in federal civil discovery, and provide legal advice and support to other ICE components and litigation support to the U.S.
- →Attorney's Offices in immigration matters, as necessary.
- →Work with other OPLA attorneys, DHS Office of the General Counsel Headquarters; other DHS legal programs; certain Department of Justice components, including the Office of Immigration Litigation; and other ICE and DHS personnel on a wide range of substantive issues related to immigration law.
Requirements
- ✓Applicants must be a graduate of an accredited law school with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) or LLM degree.
- ✓Please see Required Documents for more information.
- ✓A student loan repayment incentive may be available; if such an incentive is available and is authorized, a service agreement will be required.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 854af11e-9c6a-4713-ab15-3e2d98c27248
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