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There is an anticipated vacancy beginning in November 2012 for an Assistant Counsel within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Mid-Atlantic (NAVFAC MIDLANT) located in Norfolk, Virginia. NAVFAC MIDLANT is an echelon four command within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command that is responsible for providing public works, construction, environmental, planning and design, and real estate services to Navy and other Department of Defense activities in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and the Northeast United States. Among other things, it is responsible for facilities construction and maintenance at Naval Base Norfolk, the worlds largest naval concentration.
The NAVFAC MIDLANT Office of Counsel is a field activity of the NAVFAC Atlantic Office of Counsel, Norfolk, Virginia, and is a part of the NAVFAC Office of Counsel, which is headquartered in Washington, DC, and comprised of approximately 100 attorneys around the world. The NAVFAC MIDLANT Office of Counsel is comprised of 13 attorneys (including the subject position). Legal advice is provided on the full range of issues encountered by the client, with a concentration in procurement of construction, facilities maintenance, architecture/engineering and base operations services, and in the areas of real estate, environmental and civilian personnel law. Other practice areas include fiscal law, the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act, and ethics.