Post by luckylady2 on Nov 17, 2015 1:20:54 GMT -5
I would still be very surprised if a job that is classified as a 1905 attorney with ODAR wouldn't count as practicing law.
Private sector attorneys spend some of their day supervising paralegals and other such work necessary for cases but that doesn't make them not practicing law "full time."
It will be many years until I apply for ALJ so I haven't seen the application, but does it actually require you to break down your time into percentages to describe applicable work experience? I just don't see how any attorney does this to reflect practicing law on such a tough definition 100% of the time. Most legal work is behind the scenes paperwork, even if it's stuff a paralegal would do.
I can't imagine OPM dinging a supervisory attorney because they don't have enough admin law "experience." But I haven't gone through the process yet.
QUALIFYING EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have a full seven (7) years of experience as a licensed attorney preparing for, participating in, and/or reviewing formal hearings or trials involving litigation and/or administrative law at the Federal, State or local level. To be considered as qualifying experience, the types of cases handled under this requirement must have been conducted on the record under procedures at least as formal as those prescribed by sections 553 through 559 of title 5 of the United States Code.