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Deadlines and Key Dates

  • July 31, 2012 – application opens
  • Sept. 4, 2012 – application deadline
  • Late Sept. 2012 – interview candidates selected
  • Mid. Oct – early Nov. 2012– interviews conducted
  • Late Nov. 2012 thru Feb. 2013 – offers extended

Participating Components

Application Checklist


Next Attorney
Recruitment Event

July

14

Sat

July 14-19, 2012

National Bar Association 87th Annual Convention

Las Vegas, NV

Office Locations & Practice Areas

Honors Program Participating Components

The components listed below will participate in the 2012-2013 Attorney General’s Honors Program. Actual hiring is subject to availability of funds; however, the components estimate that they will fill the number of positions listed below. Applicants must meet Honors Program eligibility requirements for all positions listed below. Some offices, in particular the Office of the Solicitor General and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices, impose additional eligibility criteria (e.g., bar admission or judicial clerkship requirements). That information will be added to this listing as soon as it is finalized. Additional eligibility criteria specified by a hiring component are effective at the time the application opens (July 31, 2012).

Name of Component Number of Hires

Antitrust Division

  • Specific locations coming soon

13

Civil Division

4

Civil Rights Division

3

Criminal Division

  • Regular Trial Attorney (10)
  • Asset Forfeiture & Money Laundering Fellowship (3)
13

Drug Enforcement Administration

4

Environment & Natural Resources Division

8

Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)

  • Office of the Chief Immigration Judge (65) 
         (Immigration Courts Nationwide)
  • Office of General Counsel (1)
         (Washington, DC)
  • Board of Immigration Appeals (4)
         (Washington, DC)
  • Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (1)
         (Washington, DC)
  • Office of Legal Access Program (1)
         (Washington, DC)
72

Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

4
National Security Division 4

Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties

1

Office of the Solicitor General

Eligibility restricted to law school graduates who have completed or are serving in a federal court of appeals clerkship. Current law students and law school graduates lacking a federal court of appeals judicial clerkship are not eligible and will not be considered. Bar admission is preferred but not required. This is a
1-year term appointment.

This office does not consider where the applicant ranked it in order of employment preference on the online application when selecting interview candidates. In other words, the applicant can rank OSG at the bottom of his/her preference list and will be considered in the same way as an applicant who ranked it at the top.

1

Tax Division

  • Tax-Civil (2)
  • Tax-Criminal (1)

3

U.S. Trustee Program
6

U.S. Attorney’s Offices

14

INFORMAL PARTICIPANTS
  • U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (2).  Eligibility restricted to law school graduates with judicial clerkship experience who are admitted to a bar. Applicants not meeting all three criteria will not be considered and should not apply.