Legal Occupation Student Trainee (1L)
This is a temporary, excepted service position is limited to law students in their first year of law school, located in the Bureau of Competition in the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC enforces federal consumer protection laws and federal antitrust laws.
The goal is to provide representation in legal casework by assisting attorneys in obtaining factual information to support legal arguments and thereby aid the work of the division's litigation efforts.
Serves in the capacity of a student trainee (Honors Legal Intern). Performs duties under the supervision of higher graded attorneys who give instructions as to the objectives and results to be obtained and is available for guidance, as to methods and procedures to be followed, during progress of assignment, and compliance with policies, procedures, and regulations.
The incumbent assist attorneys working on cases or legal issues in one or more of the following or related areas:
- advertising practices.
- marketing practices including internet and emerging technologies.
- cease and desist and federal court injunctive order compliance.
- consumer protection law investigation and litigation.
- trade regulation and trade law enforcement.
- consumer financial and lending practice activity and consumer privacy.
- consumer information and protection including identity theft.
- consumer, business, local government, domestic and international agencies, and organizations' education efforts.
- antitrust law practices including merger and non-merger activity.
- administrative law, Freedom of Information, and agency legal counsel.