Position Objective:
Provide services as an Attorney IV in support of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Office of Enforcement.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conduct document review for ongoing matters to identify materials that are relevant to the salient legal and factual issues;
- Assist in the interpretation of laws, rulings, and regulations;
- Aid with the preparation and follow-up on hearings, depositions and trials;
- Develop a strategy, arguments and testimony in preparation for the presentation of a case/matter;
- Collaborate with paralegals, law clerks and support personnel who are assigned to the matter;
- Draft and edit various documents including those in electronic format such as e-mails,
- Excel, PowerPoint, or Word documents;
- Research and draft legal documents related to complex legal issues;
- Organize, review, and summarize documents;
- Search for, review, and tag documents for relevance and/or privilege through a document review platform, such as Relativity;
- Organize, review, analyze, and summarize written consumer complaints;
- Search for, review, and analyze consumer phone calls for relevance through a call review platform, such as Nexidia or Veritone;
- Research companies and individuals using open source and proprietary databases;
- Identify, contact, and interview potential consumer and other witnesses;
- Scanning, copying, faxing, emailing and/or mailing of documents to a variety of internal and external staff/parties that relate to a case or matter;
- Managing and maintaining various types of spreadsheets to track and follow up on a variety of matter related, administrative and organizational activities;
- Using various on-line research tools, including but not limited to Lexis and Westlaw;
- Gathering, sorting, classifying and interpreting data and discovery for certain patterns of activity as well as developing recommendations, descriptions and justifications for the Bureau attorney(s) who oversee the matter;
- Draft legal documents and respond to internal and external stakeholders;
- Draft answers to questions from the public (i.e. via email or phone) and respond either in writing or verbally;
- Review incoming correspondence; and
- Work with matter team if correspondence is needed to be sent to an external entity or individual.
Basic Qualifications:
- Undergraduate and Law Degree
- 4 years or more of legal experience
- Proficiency with computer databases, spreadsheets and word processing software
- Prior document review experience.
- Prior experience interviewing potential witnesses.
- Prior experience with document and file management tools such as SharePoint or databases using Salesforce platforms.
- Prior experience using a document review platform, such as Relativity.
- Prior experience using online legal research tools, such as Lexis or Westlaw.
- Able to perform other duties normally at the Attorney III level with a high degree of independence and/or high level of productivity
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with non-technical and technical staff.
- Detail-oriented and possess strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Exceptional research and analytical skills
- Prior background investigation clearance (successful adjudication) at another Federal agency or the CFPB.
*This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required by this position.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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