Job Description
Hiring Organization
USAO Northern District of Illinois
Hiring Office
Chicago, IL
Job ID
AUSA-NDIL-25-1
Location: 219 S. Dearborn Street
5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60604 - United States
Application Deadline: Monday, April 21, 2025
About the Office
The United States Attorney Office for the Northern District of Illinois has over 160 Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) working in its Criminal and Civil Divisions. AUSAs assigned to the Criminal Division handle a wide variety of cases, including drug trafficking and money-laundering crimes, terrorism-related offenses, firearms, and other violent crime offenses, cyber-crimes, environmental crimes, and a variety of fraud, public corruption, and white-collar offenses. AUSAs assigned to the Civil Division handle an array of defensive and affirmative litigation on behalf of the United States, its agencies, and employees. Defensive litigation includes medical malpractice and other personal injury cases, employment discrimination cases, challenges to agency actions, FOIA, immigration, etc. Affirmative matters include civil rights, environmental, food and drug, along with health care and other civil fraud cases.
The District has two offices that are located in Chicago and Rockford. AUSAs are assigned to each of these offices to handle criminal and civil cases. Attorneys in both offices work closely with agents of all of the federal investigative agencies. The office also encourages extensive cooperation between state, local and federal law enforcement agencies. On the Civil side, virtually every federal agency, law-enforcement or not, is our client when it or its officials are sued.
Job Description
The Northern District of Illinois, Chicago Office is accepting applications for an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) opening in its Civil Division in Chicago, Illinois. The applicant selected will represent the U.S. Government as an AUSA in a wide range of defensive and affirmative civil litigation on behalf of the United States, its agencies, and its employees. The primary responsibility for this term position will be to handle civil opioid-related matters and pandemic-related health care fraud. Opioid-related civil matters may include large-scale investigations and litigation involving chain pharmacies, manufacturers, distributors, and e-commerce entities, as well as Controlled Substances Act and False Claims Act matters. Pandemic-related health care fraud may include civil fraud related to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Uninsured Program and other HRSA-funded programs, COVID test kits, the Provider Relief Fund, Medicare COVID waivers, nursing homes, and other comparable matters.
Qualifications
Required qualifications: Applicants must possess a J.D. degree, be an active member of the bar (any jurisdiction) and have at least 2-years post-J.D. experience.
Preferred qualifications: Excellent academics, significant litigation experience, civil law experience, strong legal writing skills, and a demonstrated commitment to public service.
You must meet all qualification requirements upon the closing date of the announcement.
United States citizenship is required.
Application Process
Application information for AUSA-NDIL-25-1 is available at the following site:
All applications must be submitted through USAJobs at AND via email, in PDF format only, to: usailn.hiring@usdoj.gov. Applicants who fail to follow both steps will not be considered.
No telephone calls please.
Applicants should familiarize themselves and comply with the relevant rules of professional conduct regarding any possible conflicts of interest in connection with their applications. In particular, please notify this Office if you currently represent clients or adjudicate matters in which this Office is involved and/or you have a family member who is representing clients or adjudicating matters in which this Office is involved so that we can evaluate any potential conflicts of interest or disqualification issues that may need to be addressed under those circumstances.
Salary
Assistant United States Attorney's pay is administratively determined based, in part, on the number of years of professional attorney
experience. The range of basic pay is $82,655 to $195,100 which includes 30.86% locality pay.
Job Tags
Full time, Relief, Local area,