Clarification from the agency

Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or have permanent resident alien status. Current career Postal Service employees are ineligible to apply to this posting.

As a member of the Pricing and Product Support group of attorneys, you will have a varied portfolio that combines complex regulatory practice and administrative litigation with corporate governance, contract negotiation, business strategy, new product development, and more.

The Law Department encourages any interested attorney to apply, regardless of background, but the ideal candidate would have some combination of experience in complex regulated environments, administrative law, government, contracts, antitrust, competition, economics, finance, and business.

Requirements:
Our group primarily represents the Postal Service before the Postal Regulatory Commission. The Commission is the primary regulator of the Postal Service and works to provide transparency and accountability regarding postal rates, finances, and service to stakeholders and the general public, in a manner similar to public utility commissions and competition regulators. Further information about the Commission can be found at https://www.prc.gov/.

Our primary responsibilities include advising internal clients about, and conducting advocacy before the Commission for, a wide range of business initiatives involving a unique blend of law, economics, and policy. These initiatives include-

• Creating new or modifying existing service offerings;
• Setting domestic mail prices, promotions, and incentives;
• Negotiating, drafting, and executing service contracts; and
• Improving methodologies for calculating product costs.

Other responsibilities include -

• Drafting, reviewing, and filing various required reports with the Commission.
• Drafting or responding to comments on the Commission's rulemaking and regulatory proposals;
• Drafting and reviewing the Postal Service's own rulemaking documents about pricing, product features, and mailability; and
• Advising internal clients engaged in adjudication of mailer appeals of decisions about pricing or mailing eligibility.

On occasion, we may also be called upon to prepare responses to inquiries from Congress, other governmental entities, and the public and to prepare formal filings in other proceedings in which the Postal Service is a party.

As a Pricing and Product Support attorney, you will:

• Independently draft legal notices, motions, petitions, comments, reports, memoranda, policies, and other documents upon request and according to accepted form and practice.
• Coordinate with client-side economists, product managers, sales personnel, and other business stakeholders to develop analyses and respond to Commission information requests on routine and complex matters in areas such as cost allocation and causation; market-wide and customer-specific consumption trends; application of analytical and economic principles to Commission proceedings; and the Postal Service's compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory provisions.
• Analyze pleadings filed by other parties with the Commission, particularly with respect to potentially ambiguous, contentious, complex, or novel issues; conduct applicable legal and policy research; and provide legal and strategic advice and recommendations to senior Law Department management and client-side stakeholders.
• Advise client-side stakeholders in developing business initiatives, including spotting potential statutory or regulatory issues (including under the Administrative Procedure Act) and recommending strategies to minimize risks to timely implementation.
• Assist client-side stakeholders to develop and draft rulemaking and adjudication documents.
• Review and provide feedback on such documents prepared by a less experienced attorney upon request.
• Lead projects with multiple attorneys assigned or serve as mentor to a less experienced attorney.

Duties:

1. Conducts legal research and prepares written material for use in representing the Postal Service and advising postal management officials.
2. Participates in conferences necessary to representing or advising Postal Service officials.
3. Directly advises postal management officials and represents the Postal Service in legal matters involving outside parties.
4. Prepares replies to inquiries from Congress, government agencies, and the public.
5. Prepares opinions, memoranda, decisions, regulations, testimonies, or formal filings in proceedings in which the Postal Service is a party.

Conditions of employment

Key Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen.

Qualifications

1. Ability to prepare pretrial briefs, motions, pleadings, responses, and other documents to present the issues independently with little or no direct supervision.
2. Ability to provide legal advice and services with respect to regulations, practices, or other legal matters, and formulate opinions involving the analysis and interpretation of federal, state, and local laws.
3. Ability to litigate cases before administrative bodies and federal courts.
4. Ability to communicate orally and in writing to include the ability to negotiate with third parties on behalf of clients and prepare legal documents and presentations.
5. Ability to conduct legal research to gather and interpret information and ensure accuracy of details using resources such as internal and external documents, archives, electronic databases, and interviews.
6. EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: To be eligible for the Attorney position, you must possess a Juris Doctorate from an American Bar Association accredited law school.
7. SPECIAL CONDITION: Qualified applicants must be a current member in good standing of a state, territory of the United States, District of Columbia or Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Bar Association.
8. EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT: At least 3 years of experience in legal practice, of which one year of the experience requirement may be met through the completion of a judicial clerkship if completed by the time of hire. The clerkship must be documented in the applicant's resume.
9. Three years of experience practicing as an attorney. It would be highly desirable (though not strictly required) if two of the three years of experience included:

a) The commercial practice of law, including facilitating and managing transactional matters; OR
b) Commercial litigation or federal administrative litigation, including either (a) litigation before federal courts involving complex matters, OR (b) litigation before administrative agencies involving regulatory matters; OR
c) Advising and/or advocacy in economic regulation (e.g., antitrust, fair competition law, utility rate regulation) or agency rulemakings on behalf of a federal or state regulatory body, a regulated entity, or another entity engaged in advocacy before such a regulatory body.

Qualified applicant must successfully pass a drug screening.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

We will review your resume and supporting documents to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. We will evaluate each applicant who meets the basic qualifications on the information provided and evaluate your relevant professional, educational, and work experiences as it relates to fundamental competencies, identified in the Qualifications section above, required for this position.