Closing Date: 31st December, 2025
Description:
About the Office:The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York is seeking an experienced attorney to serve as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) handling a docket of immigration cases in the Office's Civil Division. The Office's immigration work is both defensive and affirmative in nature. Examples of defensive work include habeas corpus challenges to immigration detention, Administrative Procedure Act challenges to denials of immigration benefits, actions for declaratory or injunctive relief, mandamus actions, and constitutional claims. The Office also investigates and litigates affirmative immigration cases, including denaturalization actions and immigration-related fraud.
This position will require a range of skills and abilities, including managing a high-volume docket; researching case law and drafting complex briefs, often on expedited deadlines; interacting with agency clients and opposing counsel; and involvement in all aspects of federal court practice, including motions, managing discovery, negotiated settlements, and appearing and arguing before the District Court and Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The AUSA may also be assigned other types of matters as the Office's needs require.
In all matters, it is our mission to represent the people of the United States in a matter that will instill confidence in the fairness and integrity of our office and the judicial system, and to conduct our work with the highest integrity. We strive to perform our mission in the most efficient and effective manner.
Job Description:
Assistant United States Attorneys have the opportunity to represent the interests of the United States of America in the United District Court for the Southern District of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In performing this important public service, AUSAs exercise a level of responsibility for the matters they handle that is unparalleled in any other litigation job.
Qualifications:
Applicants must have a J.D. degree (or equivalent), be an active member of the bar (any U.S. jurisdiction) and have at least one to two years post-J.D. (or equivalent) legal or other relevant experience.
Political Appointees (Current or Former): The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C or Non-Career SES employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the HR Office. Failure to disclose this information could result in disciplinary action including removal from Federal Service.
Applicants should familiarize themselves and comply with the relevant rules of professional conduct regarding any possible conflicts of interest in connection with their applications. In particular, please notify this Office if you currently represent clients or adjudicate matters in which this Office is involved and/or you have a family member who is representing clients or adjudicating matters in which this Office is involved so that we can evaluate any potential conflicts of interest or disqualification issues that may need to be addressed under those circumstances.
Salary:
Assistant United States Attorneys' pay is administratively determined based, in part, on the number years of professional attorney experience.
Number of Positions
1
Travel:
Some travel both nation-wide and international may be necessary.
