Description:
Position Overview:Rikka Law Group is seeking an attorney to provide legal research, drafting, counseling, case-management, and litigation-support services for a federal agency. This role is expected to carry a substantial share of day-to-day research, writing, document review, deadline management, and matter support under the supervision of the Attorney Program Lead and senior counsel.
Key Responsibilities:
- Research controlling statutes, regulations, executive orders, case law, policies, collective-bargaining provisions, procedural rules, and other legal requirements.
- Prepare legal research memoranda, options papers, risk assessments, privileged advice, and recommended courses of action.
- Draft and revise pleadings, motions, briefs, discovery materials, declarations, affidavits, subpoenas, and related filings.
- Review discovery materials for responsiveness, relevance, privilege, confidentiality, and legal sufficiency using Government-approved systems.
- Prepare privilege logs, redaction recommendations, production instructions, record indices, legal chronologies, and filing-ready materials.
- Conduct cite checking, record-citation verification, legal-sufficiency review, and final filing quality control.
- Maintain matter files, calendars, issue trackers, deliverables logs, and status information, and support weekly matter reporting.
- Support appeals, settlement analysis, mediation, hearings, and other authorized legal matters as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- J.D.
- Active bar membership in good standing.
- At least 5 years of relevant legal practice.
- Strong legal research, writing, and case-management skills.
- Ability to produce accurate, citation-verified legal work under compressed deadlines.
Preferred Experience:
- Federal employment or labor law.
- Administrative law and agency counseling.
- Federal procurement or ethics/compliance counseling.
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Privacy Act, records, confidentiality, or information-disclosure law.
- Federal litigation, administrative proceedings, or appellate support.
Engagement Requirements
- Complete required background checks, execute a nondisclosure agreement, and complete conflicts-of-interest certification and rules-of-behavior/security training before starting work.
- Maintain an active law license in good standing throughout performance.
- Be available to support time-sensitive matters during Eastern Time business hours and meet applicable urgent or emergency response requirements.
- Comply with conflict-of-interest, confidentiality, professional-responsibility, security, privacy, records-management, and Government-approved systems requirements.
- Comply with the engagement restrictions governing the use of artificial intelligence resources and protection of non-public Government information.
- Work under Rikka Law Group supervision and coordinate assignments through the Attorney Program Lead.
Application Materials:
- Current resume.
- Bar jurisdiction(s), bar number(s), and confirmation of active good standing.
- Representative matters or work samples demonstrating relevant legal research, writing, case-management, or federal practice experience.
- Current availability and hourly compensation expectation
