The Law Department of the United States Postal Service offers excellent and challenging employment opportunities for highly motivated and innovative individuals. We are currently seeking to hire 3Ls and recent law graduates for our three-year Accelerated Career Entry Program for Honors Attorneys. The Accelerated Career Entry Program for Honors Attorneys is highly competitive and provides the opportunity for recent graduates to assume significant responsibility very early in their careers. As the second-largest civilian employer and the largest unionized employer in the country, the Postal Service provides our Honors Attorneys with invaluable exposure and experience.

Honors Attorneys will have the opportunity to gain knowledge of other federal agencies, courts, and administrative boards, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Merit Systems Protection Board, National Labor Relations Board, Court of Federal Claims. U.S. District Courts and Court of Appeals, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Postal Service Board of Contract Appeals, and Postal Regulatory Commission.

The initial salary is generally $76,000, and Honors Attorneys are eligible for generous salary increase throughout their three years in the Accelerated Career Entry Program. In addition, the Postal Service offers excellent benefits, including health and life insurance, a retirement plan, a savings investment plan with employer contribution, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules; and annual and sick leave. Positions will be filled no earlier than September 2016.

Qualified applicants must earn a Juris Doctor from an accredited law school no more than 30 months prior to the date of employment. Successful candidates possess outstanding analytical, advocacy, and writing skills.

Additionally, applicants must satisfy at least one of the following requirements:

Membership on the editorial board of an academic law journal accredited by the law school from which the applicant graduated.

Standing in the top 20% of his or her law school class upon graduation as measured by class standing statistics maintained by the applicant's law school.

A cumulative law school grade point average of at least 3.5 upon graduation.

Graduation from a law school ranked within the top 25 schools in the nation by an entity that conducts national law school rankings, with a cumulative law school grade point average of at least 3.0 upon graduation.

Completion of at least one year of a judicial clerkship in a federal court or in a states highest court at the time of hire.

Qualified applicants must be a U.S. citizen or have permanent resident alien status, and must successfully complete a pre-employment drug and background security screening process.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Please visit www.usps.com/careers on or after October 29, 2015 to apply. The Postal Service no longer accepts applications that are submitted by mail. When applying for an advertised vacancy, all applicants are required to apply through our eCareer system located on our website.

A cover letter, writing sample, resume, and recent transcript are required.

POSITION TYPE

Entry Level Attorney

CONTACT INFORMATION

Employer: US Postal Service

Name: Renault Turner

Address: 475 L 'Enfant Plaza

Washington, DC

20260 United States

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3033765&forum_id=2#29093369)

wtf could be challenging in the legal department at the post office? WHAT?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3033765&forum_id=2#29093460)

explain this sentence:

"The Law Department of the United States Postal Service offers excellent and challenging employment opportunities for highly motivated and innovative individuals"

wtf could be challenging in the legal department at the post office? WHAT?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3033765&forum_id=2#29093447)

"The Law Department of the United States Postal Service offers excellent and challenging employment opportunities for highly motivated and innovative individuals"

wtf could be challenging in the legal department at the post office? WHAT?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3033765&forum_id=2#29093459)

Why don't you apply to this job, shitlib?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3033765&forum_id=2#29093716)

oh the irony.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3033765&forum_id=2#29093468)

I want to see it in its native glory.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3033765&forum_id=2#29093562)

http://www.theladders.com/Attorney-x28Honors-Programx29%7CLong-Beach-CA%7C7029182?x=q

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3033765&forum_id=2#29093570)

[...] a cumulative law school grade point average of at least 3.0 upon graduation."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3033765&forum_id=2#29098961)

Shit, I was 3.1 at #26

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3033765&forum_id=2#29099019)

USPS has a ton of unionized lazy BLACK employees who spend their days doing nothing but filing EEO complaints and union grievances against USPS management. Your job will be to defend management against this bullshit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3033765&forum_id=2#29099058)