Summary The Honors Attorney Program position is located in the Legal Division, Strategic Planning and Operations Group of the FDIC. The Program allows students in their final year of law school, new law school graduates in a post graduate program, and recently graduated judicial clerks to learn and work in support of the FDIC’s mission. Additional selections may be made from this vacancy announcement to fill identical vacancies that occur subsequent to this announcement. Responsibilities -Provides legal research and analysis. -Demonstrates knowledge of corporate, commercial, constitutional, and administrative law, as well as knowledge of statutory construction. -Prepares legal documents such as complaints, motions, briefs, and regulations, and legal memoranda/forms. -Complete assigned tasks and/or projects of limited scope and complexity designed to develop skills and proficiency. -Prepares legal opinions on a wide variety of subjects. Requirements Conditions of Employment Bar membership required. The candidates selected will be offered a time-limited appointment not-to-exceed 24 months. Registration with the Selective Service. U.S. Citizenship is required. Employment Conditions. Completion of Financial Disclosure may be required. Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) required Qualifications In order to qualify for the Honors Attorney Program, you must meet the following qualification criteria: 1. A J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school; and 2. A current judicial law clerk, with a minimum of one year of judicial law clerk experience prior to the start of the program, that began no later than nine months after law school graduation and has been no longer than three years in length; and 3. Be admitted to practice before the highest court of any state, territory or the District of Columbia; and 4. Be in at least the upper thirty-three percent (33%) of your law school class and/or have an overall grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.0 unrounded based on a scale of 4.0. NOTE: If your law school does not calculate class rank, and also does not provide traditional grades or a GPA, you should include a link to the school’s grading policy and should provide a narrative explanation of how your law school performance correlates with our requirements. Education There is no substitution of education for the experience for this position. See requirements stated under QUALIFICATIONS. Additional Information To read about your rights and responsibilities as an applicant for Federal employment, click here. Selected candidates will be assigned to our headquarters offices in Washington, D.C. and Arlington, Virginia. TELEWORK OPTIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. For more information on telework at the FDIC, please reference the available telework options for this position here. If selected, you may be required to serve a trial period. The Honors Attorney Program appointment is for a period not-to-exceed 2-years. While a permanent appointment beyond the temporary 2-year appointment cannot be guaranteed, successful completion of the Honors Attorney Program may lead to a permanent appointment in the FDIC’s Legal Division. If at the time of successful completion of the Honors Attorney Program and permanent appointment in the FDIC’s Legal Division, an Honors Attorney is permanently assigned to a Regional Office duty station, relocation benefits may be available. This position is advertised as an OPEN CONTINUOUS with a final closing date of 08/23/2024. Applicants that apply before each closing date of the cut off dates listed below or when a request for an additional vacancy is submitted will be considered. Due to the high volume of qualified applicants expected to apply, a first cut-off date of 07/26/2024 will be used. A second cut-off date of 08/09/2024 will be used. If the resulting candidate pool is not sufficient to meet the hiring needs, all candidates who apply by the closing date of this announcement will receive consideration.