Position Overview
Summary The Environmental Enforcement Section seeks an experienced attorney to serve as an Assistant Section Chief who will supervise one of five litigating groups. Each litigating group consists of a team of attorneys and professional staff charged with pursuing a wide variety of district court cases: pollution control, cost recovery, and natural resource damage claims chief among them. Responsibilities Assistant Section Chiefs have direct supervisory responsibility for all aspects of work in their respective groups. This supervision involves, among other things: Ensuring appropriate staffing on each matter (including appropriate professional staff to handle administrative matters and case matters). Building team effectiveness and morale. Providing strategy and other guidance as needed. Ensuring compliance with all relevant DOJ guidance and policies. Reviewing briefs, memoranda, and other written work product for substantive accuracy and for consistency with positions in other litigat...