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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.
Candidates for this and every DoD SkillBridge internship opportunity with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are able to intern for 180, 120, and 90 days and MUST be at least 13 MONTHS from separation, not 12 months, 11 months, or 10 months but at least 13 months away from separating the military. Why 13 months? We are able to host SkillBridge interns for their final 180, 120, and/or 90 days on active-duty depending on the individual service-member’s situation. We use the time prior to their finite internship dates to complete our required HR actions to include getting them in front of hiring managers, having interviews conducted, selection decisions being made, “Qualifications Reviews” successfully completed on their resumes clearly demonstrating that they have the required experience, etc. for the positions for which they are being considered, along with a 3 to 5 month (on average) full CBP Background Investigation (BI) that MUST be completed prior to internship start dates.In this Paralegal Specialist position, you will become a key member of the legal team for the Office of The Chief Counsel. Typical work assignments include:• Conducting eDiscovery document reviews and redactions utilizing RelOne, Relativity or other document production software; • Organizing, summarizing, and analyzing documents obtained during discovery phase of agency litigation;• Receiving, investigating, examining and evaluating subpoenas, Giglio requests and other requests for Agency and personnel information from federal and state law enforcement agencies for possible disclosure in judicial proceedings; • Providing information and making recommendations in justifying the Agency’s legal position in regard to legal challenges to Agency actions; and• Providing litigation support to Agency attorneys for administrative hearings and court proceedings.
