General Attorney (Public Notice Flyer)

General Attorney (Public Notice Flyer) Department of Commerce Office of the Secretary Office of the General Counsel (OGC), Deputy General Counsel for Administrion (DGCA) Summary This vacancy is for a General Attorney (Public Notice Flyer) in the Office of the Secretary within the Department of Commerce. Learn more about this agency Summary This vacancy is for a General Attorney (Public Notice Flyer) in the Office of the Secretary within the Department of Commerce. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/11/2026 to 06/11/2026 Salary $85,447

• $197,200 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11
• 15 Locion Many vacancies in the following locion: Washington, DC Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential 15 Job family (Series) 0905 Attorney Supervisory stus No Security clearance Not Required Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Modere Risk (MR) Trust determinion process Credentialing Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure No Bargaining unit stus No Announcement number

OS-OGC-PNF-26-12959662

Control number 868819800 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Clarificion from the agency Applicions accepted from all U.S. Citizens. Duties Help The Office of the General Counsel ("OGC") is seeking highly qualified candides to fill numerous vacancies, across multiple practice areas, within the Office of the Deputy General Counsel for Administrion ("DGCA"): Employment Litigion and Informion (ELI) is responsible for all litigion brought by or against the Department and oversees mters involving informion law. The office is comprised of three divisions: the Employment and Labor Law Division, the General Litigion Division, and the Informion Law Division. Ethics Law and Program (ELP) is accountable for administrion of Commerce's government ethics program. This encompasses all bureaus and offices. The primary mission is to prevent conflicts of interest arising for Commerce personnel, through rigorous training, financial disclosure reviews, and advice and counsel activities. ELP supports departmental risk mitigion and provides support reled to guidance on the Hch Act. Common guidance areas include financial and personal conflicts of interest, outside activities, gifts, and post-employment restrictions. Legislion and Regulion (L&R) manages the Department's legislive and regulory legal functions. L&R oversees the Department's legislive review process, reviews and clears rulemaking proposals prepared by bureaus and offices, and serves as the Department's liaison with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on legislive and regulory mters. The office consists of the Legislive Division and the Regulory Division. Office of Accountability (OA) is responsible for ensuring th the Department maintains the highest standards of performance and conduct across its 40,000+ person workforce. OA torneys investige instances of serious misconduct and poor performance and initie approprie corrective action. OA torneys work on high-profile, sensitive personnel mters th threen the Department's mission. Transactions and Program Management's (TPM) three divisions provide legal services and guidance to the Department's senior leadership and bureau program offices regarding procurement, real property, financial assistance, interagency, and other special agreement transactions with outside parties and represents the Department in any litigion arising from procurement and real property mters. The office also provides legal advice on areas of environmental compliance and regulion, and general administrive law and agency operions not covered by other components of OGC, including fiscal law, trademark and copyright law, directives management and delegions of authority, personal property law, and travel and transportion law, among other issues. This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other General Attorney (Public Notice Flyer)

GS-0905-11/12/13/14/15, FPL GS-15

positions within the Office of the Secretary in the same geographical locion with the same qualificions and specialized experience. Requirements Help Conditions of employment You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position. You must successfully pass a background investigion. This may include a credit check, a review of financial issues, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs. A trial period may be required.

Selective Service:

Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see https://www.sss.gov/) If you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position, you required to complete an Optional Form 306, Declarion for Federal Employment, and to sign and certify the accuracy of all informion in your applicion. All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing.

Drug Test Required:

No License required: No Pre-employment physical required:

No Bargaining Unit Position:

No Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE form 450): No Permanent Change of Duty Stion (PCS)

Expense:

Will not be paid Qualificions Qualificion requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualificion Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualificion standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website loced : https://www.opm.gov/policy-da-oversight/classificion-qualificions/general-schedule-qualificion-standards/ Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience th has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies; knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Basic requirement for all grade levels: You must be a gradue with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree or equivalent from an accredited law school; AND You must have bar membership in one of the 50 stes, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, or the US Virgin Islands.

Minimum Requirements:

The career ladder for torney positions in OGC is generally GS-11 to GS-15. The minimum qualificions for hiring each grade level (or equivalent) are as follows: GS-11: J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership in one of the 50 stes, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands. (The requirement th an applicant possess a J.D. may be waived if his or her bar membership is in a ste th allows individuals to "read for the law" rher than pursue a formal academic degree). GS-12: GS-11 qualificions plus one-year legal experience, or additional relevant experience th distinguishes an entry-level torney from the GS-11.

This may include:

a superior academic record; specific course work or an internship in the relevant legal area; another gradue or doctoral degree. Individuals hired into Legal Intern positions the GS-11 may be reassigned to GS-12 torney positions upon admission to the bar, irrespective of time-in-grade. GS-13: Two years of legal experience or relevant professional experience (legal or non-legal). Relevant non-legal professional experience could include, for example, experience as an Employee Relions Specialist when applying for an Employment Law position. Likewise, experience in a non-torney position within the Department, with resulting insight into the client's mission, could warrant a higher grade, as could non-legal experience in reguled industry. When relying on non-legal professional experience, hiring managers must articule in writing how the cited experience enhances the applicant's skills to warrant the higher grade. GS-14: Typically requires a minimum of three years of relevant legal experience. On the rare occasion, two years of relevant legal experience may suffice, as determined by the General Counsel or his or her designee. GS-15: Typically requires a minimum of four years of relevant legal experience. On the rare occasion, three years of relevant legal experience may suffice, as determined by the General Counsel or his or her designee.

• Applicants may be hired any of the grades shown in this announcement, commensure with the candide's experience and qualificions.

You are encouraged to identify the grade level(s) or salary for which you wish to be Educion See Qualificions Above. Additional informion This position does not confer non-competitive conversion to the competitive service. Acceptance of an excepted service appointment from applicants in the competitive service will require a written stement of understanding when voluntarily leaving the competitive service. Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Applicants red based on their educion, experience, demonstred legal research and writing abilities, and performance during the interview process.

Basis for evaluion:

If eligible and meeting basic qualificions, your applicion package evalued in conjunction with your resume and supporting documents for the required knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) to successfully perform the duties of this position: Knowledge of research stregies and techniques sufficient to research the most complex legal issues. The issues researched are almost always factually complex and are in areas of the law which are often in a continual ste of evolution, thus requiring ypical and innovive research stregies. Ability to communice effectively with diverse clients and constituencies on varied and complex topics in writing clearly, concisely, and persuasively, with particular emphasis on the ability to analyze and explain complex legal issues. Ability to communice effectively orally with diverse clients and constituencies on varied and complex topics and independently present legal conclusions to adjudicory authorities. Ability to maintain effective working and reporting relionships with professional peers, support staff, and management officials. Ability to organize work effectively to meet established deadlines and priorities reled to legal cases and mters. Please be advised th Department of Commerce Attorney positions are in the Excepted Service. As such, these positions are not covered by the usual civil service hiring procedures. You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions sted herein. We will perform an initial review of applicions to determine basic eligibility and minimum qualificions for the position, and numeric scores will not be assigned. There are no numerical ring systems through which to apply veterans' preference; however, the Office of the General Counsel favorably considers veterans preference eligibility in hiring. There are no numerical ring systems through which to apply veterans preference; however, the Office of the General Counsel favorably considers veterans preference eligibility in hiring. Applicants eligible for veterans preference are encouraged to include th informion in their cover letter or resume. If selected, additional informion may be required. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help A complete applicion consists of the following: Cover letter. Address demonstred interests and qualificions as it reles to the position. Resume showing relevant experience. Your resume must not be more than 2 pages and should list your educional and work experience, including the des (mm/dd/yyyy) and provide the hours per week, if less than 40. For work in the Federal Service, please include the pay plan and grade level for the position(s). Copy of law school transcript. (Unofficial copy is sufficient, but official copy must be submitted before appointment). You are not required to submit official documents this time; copies are sufficient. Certifice of bar membership and proof of good standing. Prior to receiving an offer, you asked to provide a certifice of bar membership and proof of good standing.

• Failure to provide documents, if selected, may result in lost considerion. Please DO NOT put your SSN on pages within your applicion package. Privacy Act
• Privacy Act Notice (PL 93-579): The informion requested here is used to determine qualificions for employment and is authorized under Title 5 U.

S.C. 3302 and 3361. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING RESUMES AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION

Submit the required documents via email to OGCResumes@doc.gov with the subject line formted as follows: General Attorney

• DGCA GS
• Insert grade level th you are applying for, e.g., 11/12/13/14/15), Applicant's last name, first initial. Please submit a PDF file of your applicion packet and ensure no documents are encrypted or require a password to view.
• This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other General Attorney GS-0905
• 11/12/13/14/15 FPL-15 positions within the Office of the Secretary, in the same geographical locion, with the same qualificions and specialized experience.

Recent law school gradues are also encouraged to apply. Recent gradues may be appointed as a Law Clerk (GS-0904) and, upon successfully passing the bar examinion, may be converted to a General Attorney position. Agency contact informion Altovise Davis adavis@doc.gov Address Office of the Secretary 1401 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20230 US Next steps Once your applicion is received we will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions and determine your eligibility. You will only be contacted if you are found eligible and if you are selected for an interview. Applicants selected for interviews may be requested to provide a legal writing sample. Applying to this announcement certifies th you give permission for OGC to share your applicion with others in OGC for similar positions. By submitting your applicion, you are certifying the accuracy of the informion contained in your applicion. If you make a false stement in any part of your applicion, you may not be hired; you may be termined after you begin work; or, you may be fined or jailed. After making a tentive job offer, we will conduct a suitability/security background investigion. You required to submit official documention prior to appointment. The agency will then verify the informion provided on your applicion (i.e., degree, veterans' preference, disability, etc.). Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help A complete applicion consists of the following: Cover letter. Address demonstred interests and qualificions as it reles to the position. Resume showing relevant experience. Your resume must not be more than 2 pages and should list your educional and work experience, including the des (mm/dd/yyyy) and provide the hours per week, if less than 40. For work in the Federal Service, please include the pay plan and grade level for the position(s). Copy of law school transcript. (Unofficial copy is sufficient, but official copy must be submitted before appointment). You are not required to submit official documents this time; copies are sufficient. Certifice of bar membership and proof of good standing. Prior to receiving an offer, you asked to provide a certifice of bar membership and proof of good standing.

• Failure to provide documents, if selected, may result in lost considerion. Please DO NOT put your SSN on pages within your applicion package. Privacy Act
• Privacy Act Notice (PL 93-579): The informion requested here is used to determine qualificions for employment and is authorized under Title 5 U.

S.C. 3302 and 3361. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING RESUMES AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION

Submit the required documents via email to OGCResumes@doc.gov with the subject line formted as follows: General Attorney

• DGCA GS
• Insert grade level th you are applying for, e.g., 11/12/13/14/15), Applicant's last name, first initial. Please submit a PDF file of your applicion packet and ensure no documents are encrypted or require a password to view.
• This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other General Attorney GS-0905
• 11/12/13/14/15 FPL-15 positions within the Office of the Secretary, in the same geographical locion, with the same qualificions and specialized experience.

Recent law school gradues are also encouraged to apply. Recent gradues may be appointed as a Law Clerk (GS-0904) and, upon successfully passing the bar examinion, may be converted to a General Attorney position. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Altovise Davis adavis@doc.gov Address Office of the Secretary 1401 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20230 US Next steps Once your applicion is received we will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions and determine your eligibility. You will only be contacted if you are found eligible and if you are selected for an interview. Applicants selected for interviews may be requested to provide a legal writing sample. Applying to this announcement certifies th you give permission for OGC to share your applicion with others in OGC for similar positions. By submitting your applicion, you are certifying the accuracy of the informion contained in your applicion. If you make a false stement in any part of your applicion, you may not be hired; you may be termined after you begin work; or, you may be fined or jailed. After making a tentive job offer, we will conduct a suitability/security background investigion. You required to submit official documention prior to appointment. The agency will then verify the informion provided on your applicion (i.e., degree, veterans' preference, disability, etc.). Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/11/2026 to 06/11/2026 Salary $85,447

• $197,200 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11
• 15 Locion Many vacancies in the following locion: Washington, DC Remote job No Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential 15 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

OS-OGC-PNF-26-12959662

Control number 868819800