Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) - Attorney

The Office of Chief Counsel (OCC) serves as in-house counsel to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the nation’s largest law enforcement agency. CBP is charged with countering terrorism, combatting transnational crime, securing the border, facilitating lawful trade, protecting revenue, and facilitating lawful travel. OCC is vital to CBP’s accomplishment of that mission. OCC attorneys advise and train CBP’s operational clients on issues relating to immigration, constitutional, customs and international trade, tort, disclosure, ethics, and labor and employment law. OCC attorneys represent CBP’s operational clients in administrative proceedings before the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and at arbitration.

OCC attorneys partner with U.S. Department of Justice attorneys on affirmative and defensive federal litigation involving CBP, at times in cases with national implications. OCC attorneys harness RelativityOne, a cutting-edge, secure document review platform with advanced technologies, to manage and conduct electronic discovery, ensure the protection of privileged and sensitive information, and, together with OCC colleagues, CBP’s operational clients, and U.S. Department of Justice attorneys, strategize CBP’s litigation position.A General Attorney intern will be provided the opportunity to engage in a legal practice spanning CBP’s diverse legal portfolio, acquiring a nuanced understanding of CBP’s operations and legal authorities and an experience beneficial to employment within OCC.