Senior attorney doj
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Anonymous
| What is the GS of a senior attorney at doj? |
Anonymous
It's usually 15. |
Anonymous
| The senior attorney title is unrelated to your GS grade, but as a practical matter, almost anyone with a senior attorney title will be GS-15. |
Anonymous
what is the senior attorney title anyway? |
Anonymous
Exactly? What is it. I'm a DOJ attorney (15). I am curious what makes one senior? |
Anonymous
| Why not SES? |
Anonymous
| In my division (civil rights) the title senior trial attorney means GS 15. Lower grades are just trial attorneys. |
Anonymous
All of the litigating divisions have the authority to designate attorneys as senior attorneys. In some divisions, the front office has to do it. In others, the AAG has designated the power to section chiefs. Some divisions/sections use it to designate a change in managerial responsibility. For example, if most people in the section draft briefs, and a small group of people mostly second-level review briefs, the section might designate the reviewing attorneys as senior attorneys. Similarly, in sections that litigate cases in larger case teams, the people who tend to exert the most managerial responsibility on the case teams might be designated senior. Some other divisions/sections use it solely as an honorific to recognize people with longer tenure. So, the people who have been there 30 years will have received the senior title. And some other divisions/sections (apparently including yours?) just don't bother giving out the title because they figure it might cause some resentment and doesn't come with any perks anyhow. |
Anonymous
Generally speaking, Deputy Section Chief and above are SES at DOJ. Senior attorneys and assistant section chiefs are not. Counsel/special counsel/senior counsel to the DAG, AAG, etc. are a class of non-managerial SES. |
Anonymous
| Also, there are the political appointees. I jumped from GS 15 to SES 3 or 4 when I turned political and was assigned to another agency. |
Anonymous
| Thanks for the explanation |