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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an interview with the BVA for this position. After reading this, I don't know if I even want to interview for the position.  It all makes me nervous.  I have pretty extensive litigation experience, and I love being in court.  I left my previous job due to intolerable work conditions. I can't work in another hostile, toxic work environment.  Yeesh.  [/quote]

former litigator here.  If you said you hated litigation I would say BVA might be good for you.  If you loved litigation, but not your particular office, then you need to find another office somewhere and keep litigating.  You will be bored at BVA.[/quote]

There are many non-litigation attorney positions in the federal government. BVA is only one option; however, it’s not a good place to keep your attorney skills sharp because as the other poster stated, much of the work at BVA is copying and pasting text into decisions. Moreover, BVA recently downgraded the max promotion level for BVA attorneys from GS-14 to GS-13 to reflect the boilerplate nature of the work.[/quote]

I wish you would stop with this "reflecting the boilerplate nature of work" nonsnese. You're either clueless or arrogant, or both, but you're not telling the truth. The downgrading reflects management's hostility toward the attorneys, and their desire to hire more people with less money to churn out more decisions. It doesn't mean the work got any easier.  There are still very complex and ridiculously impossible cases, management just wants you to do more with less.  [/quote]

Weren't you the one who, on April 14 of this month, wrote, "It was a dumb test - I can’t imagine it provided useful information. Timed test and you couldn’t cut and paste - [b]most of the job is cut and paste[/b], so it was pretty unrealistic. Probably unwieldy, too?" How come you're allowed to characterized the BVA attorney position as boilerplate/cut and paste, but no one else is allowed to say the same thing?[/quote]

Cut and paste boilerplate is not exclusive to BVA nor to administrative decision writers. It is a way to ensure uniformity and is present through much of the law.

Just because there is a lot of boilerplate in ANY job does not mean there is not a lot of additional writing to be done and complex legal analysis.

Are ya’ll 1Ls for something? You seem to have no clue. And the troll bashes no matter what anyone says, but people, use your brains and stop trying to dramatically construe everything as meaning that BVA is the worst place to work.[/quote]

You're referring to boilerplate statements of the law. While BVA and other agencies use boilerplate statements of the law, BVA decisions routinely use boilerplate analyses in most decisions. Please don't compare BVA decisions to SEC or FLRA decisions There's simply no comparison in terms of the quality of analysis. That difference is reflected in management's decision to downgrade the BVA attorney position from GS-14 to GS-13.[/quote]

“Boilerplate analyses” - good one - makes so much sense.  You are very wise, Learned Troll[/quote]

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