Year-Round Law Clerk

Job Description

Year-Round Law Clerk

Company: Sandia National Laboratories

What Your Job Will Be Like

Sandia National Laboratories is seeking a current law student to join our dynamic team as a Year-Round Law Clerk. This position offers an invaluable opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a corporate legal office, supporting Sandia attorneys across a diverse range of legal subject matters.

You will contribute to areas such as privacy law, regulatory compliance, procurement and transactional law, and other general corporate legal matters. Occasionally, you will also have opportunities to assist with labor and employment law and ERISA/employee benefits matters.

Expected research will span multiple areas of law and various sources, including federal and state common law, statutory law, and regulations. The law clerk is expected to exercise independent judgment in applying the law to specific facts and to communicate these determinations concisely to supervising attorneys, always with robust legal support. Responsibilities include preparing legal memoranda for internal attorney use and occasionally for litigation purposes. Additionally, the law clerk will draft succinct and understandable educational materials for non-attorney Sandia employees, aiding them in complying with relevant laws and regulations impacting their work.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Conduct legal research and writing.
• Support attorneys on a variety of legal subject areas and matters, with a particular emphasis on privacy matters.
• Work collaboratively with legal staff on a range of initiatives and legal proceedings.

The selected applicant can work a combination of onsite and offsite. It is a requirement that the selected applicant lives within a reasonable distance for commuting to the assigned work location when necessary.

Salary Range

At Sandia, we recognize the important contributions our interns make to National Security, and as such, they earn competitive pay rates. Our pay structure is determined by earned credit hours, classification, and degree level. Your specific pay rate will be established during the hiring process and included in your offer package. For more detailed information, you can view the Intern Pay Rate chart here.

Qualifications We Require

• Earned bachelor’s degree.
• Currently attending and enrolled full time in a related accredited graduate program.
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0/4.0.
• Ability to work up to 30 hours per week during the academic year, and up to 40 hours per week during the summer.
• Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.

Qualifications We Desire

• Currently attending and enrolled full time in an accredited J.D. program.
• Ability to work onsite 10-15 hours per week during the academic year and up to 40 hours per week during the summer.
• Demonstrated proficiency in legal research and writing.
• Ability to work independently, manage time effectively while working on multiple projects, and communicate well.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE L security clearance.

Posting Duration

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

About Our Team

Sandia’s Legal and Prime Contract Division provides comprehensive legal support and advice to leaders and subject matter experts across Sandia. This covers a wide variety of general law matters, including but not limited to privacy; corporate law issues; environment, safety and health; FOIA and Privacy Act; information, physical, and other security areas; government and other contracting; litigation; employment and labor; state and federal taxation; employee welfare and retirement benefit plans; intellectual property and technology transfer; and numerous other areas of law applicable to a contractor to the U.S. Government. This position will be within Sandia’s Regulatory & Contract Law Center, with opportunities to support projects and assignments from attorneys in the Litigation, Labor, & Employment Law Center and Intellectual Property Law Center.

About Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories stands as the nation’s premier science and engineering lab dedicated to national security and technology innovation. Our teams of specialists are focused on cutting-edge work across a broad array of areas. Here are some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide.
• Extraordinary co-workers who are leaders in their fields.
• Access to some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world.
• Abundant career advancement and enrichment opportunities.
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions, including 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home).
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, extensive learning opportunities, relocation assistance, and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance.*

We are a place of world-changing technologies and life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov

*These benefits vary by job classification.

Security Clearance

Sandia is mandated by the DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and a comprehensive background review. This review includes checks of personal references, credit history, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE L-level security clearance, which necessitates U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (e.g., U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct, or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by the DOE, which would result in the inability to perform the assigned duties and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

NNSA Requirements For MedPEDs

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions (e.g., heartbeat and brain waves), and you are employed by Sandia National Laboratories, you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Job ID: 696918

Job Family: 91

Regular/Temporary Position: T (Temporary)

Full/Part-Time Status: P (Part-Time)