Law Clerk (Trainee) (Honors Law Clerk)

National Labor Relations Board•Washington, DC

4d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is part of the National Labor Relations Board Honors Program, specifically the Board-side program area. It provides experience across the agency’s legal practices. The Law Clerk works with assistance as needed and consults with the Assistant Chief Counsel on case analysis, recommendations, and drafting. This is an Excepted Service, bargaining-unit position; relocation expenses are not authorized. The position is not remote. Applicants may be required to complete a two-year trial period and sign an Honors Program Participant Agreement.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship is required.
Males born after December 31, 1959, must be registered for Selective Service.
Applicants must meet the announcement’s qualification and eligibility requirements by the closing date.
Applicants must meet at least one basic eligibility criterion: a GPA of at least 3.0 out of 4.0 (or equivalent), placement in the top 25% of the law school class or attendance at a school that does not use numerical GPA or rank; prior internship or work at the NLRB or another labor agency; or other specialized labor law or labor relations experience.
Must have successfully completed a full course of study at an ABA-accredited law school and earned a first professional law degree (J.D. or LL.B.), or be currently pursuing an advanced law degree (such as an LL.M. or J.S.D.) at an ABA-accredited law school.
Must not be barred or licensed at the time of application.
Must either be serving in a post-law-school judicial clerk, honors law clerk, or law fellow position of at least one year that began within six months of graduating with the first professional law degree, or be pursuing an advanced law degree that began within six months of that graduation.
Must submit transcripts and a complete online application by 11:59 PM EST on the announcement’s closing date.
All claimed education must be completed at an appropriately accredited institution and will be verified. Foreign education used to meet requirements must be evaluated as equivalent to accredited U.S. education or receive full credit at a U.S.-accredited college or university.
A selectee may be subject to a background investigation before appointment.
Applicants may be required to serve a two-year trial period.

Nice To Haves

A strong academic law school record.
Current service in a judicial clerkship, law fellowship, or honors law clerkship, or enrollment in the final year of an advanced law degree.
Excellent legal research skills and oral and written communication skills.
Experience or coursework in labor or industrial relations and the National Labor Relations Act.

Responsibilities

Review formal trial or hearing records, including testimony transcripts and exhibits, Hearing Officer reports, Administrative Law Judge or Regional Director decisions, exceptions, requests for review, and briefs.
Research statutes, decisions, opinions, regulations, legislative history, and other legal authorities relevant to the points of law in a case, and apply the research to that case.
Prepare bench memoranda in consultation with the Assistant Chief Counsel, identifying contested issues, relevant facts, decisions below, parties’ arguments, and counsel’s recommendations for resolving each issue.
Orally present cases to Board Members for disposition.
Draft official Board decisions and orders, and Board Members’ separate dissenting or concurring opinions, in consultation with the Assistant Chief Counsel.