Senior Attorney

Job Duties

The successful candidate will perform the full range of attorney duties for the office. Such duties include but are not limited to:

• Monitors cases pending before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Boards (ASLB) and associated legal matters and provides the Commission with an analysis of available legal options. Advises the Commission of decisions which must be made and in the formulation of legal opinions.
• Has full responsibility for reviewing and where necessary recommending the affirmance, reversal or modification of decisions of the ASLB concerning the licensing of nuclear facilities, and the reviewing and preparing appropriate dispositions of such other matters as may come before the Commission in its quasi-judicial capacity.
• Develops, when necessary and appropriate, recommendations to the Commission in improvements in the methods of procedure in quasi-judicial proceedings.
• In rendering legal services to the Commission and Commissioner offices, incumbent is required to perform difficult, original legal research in special situations, and render decisions and make recommendations orally or in formal memoranda, based upon the legal principles involved, as determined by the results of such research. In addition, the incumbent is often required to develop solutions to problems from a legal standpoint in situations in which law has not been defined by judicial precedent in which the Commission policy has not yet been developed, employing a sound legal approach with due regard for policy considerations.
• Consults with and coordinates the views of the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) in preparing draft decisions and performing such other legal services as requested.
• Recommends policies and procedures in support of the conduct of the Commission's appellate adjudicatory functions.
• Regularly represents OCAA in meetings and conferences with the Commissioners, their staffs and OGC.
• Performs legal sufficiency reviews of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) documents and drafts final agency decisions (FADs) to ensure compliance with Title VII, the Rehabilitation Act, the ADEA, and EEOC Management Directive 110.