General Attorney

Summary

About the Position: Duties are performed independently, on own initiative and generally without preliminary instructions or technical guidance, with authorization to exercise independent judgment and to assume the responsibility for determining the course of action necessary to accomplish the work objective.

Duties

• Identify, research, and address extremely complex and difficult legal questions affecting USACE missions.
• With oversight by supervisor, represent the office to which assigned in meetings, negotiations, conferences, presentations, hearings, administrative litigation, or other forums, with municipal, state, other federal agencies, and private stakeholders.
• Renders legal advice and assistance to all elements of the Command in response to inquiries on numerous types of miscellaneous problems arising from day-to-day operations and which vary from simple to difficult.
• Assigned cases involve extremely complex and difficult legal questions or issues involving novel questions of law and policy.

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.