The Office of the Solicitor serves as the legal counsel for the U.S. Department of Labor. The approximately 516 attorneys in SOL enforce and interpret occupational and mine safety and health laws, civil rights laws, pension and health benefit laws, minimum wage and overtime requirements, whistleblower protections, and international labor standards. SOL also provides legal services to programs that pay Federal benefits to the victims of certain occupational diseases and accidents, provide grants in support of employment and training programs, and administer unemployment benefits. In all, SOL attorneys work with more than 180 labor and employment laws.
Applicants for this position should specifically be interested in trial litigation. Honors Attorneys in SOL’s Regional Offices engage in all aspects of trial litigation under the various statutes enforced by the Department of Labor, including analyzing an investigative file, filing a complaint, engaging in negotiations and discovery, preparing briefs, and arguing motions, and serving as lead counsel in cases that go to trial.
Eligibility is limited to graduating law students who will graduate from law school between October 1, 2022, and September 30, 2023, and recent law school graduates who began participating in eligibility preserving employment within 9 months of law school graduation.
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