Land Law Examiner
- Serve as the technical expert in a combination of lands, minerals leasing, mining law, adjudication functions and requirements.
- Provide advice and guidance to other examiners, management, and Solicitors on general legal principles, precedent decisions, and proper application and use of public land laws.
- Adjudicate complex cases that are received or referred for final examining decision including cases with complicated title evidence, land status issues, overlapping withdrawals, and title restrictions.
- Cases may involve conflicting laws, resource conflicts such as endangered species or archeological issues, policy conflicts which may require negotiations and extensive research.
- Conduct legal research, analyze regulations, judicial decisions, Solicitor opinions, and other decisions that impact land and mineral adjudications.
- Utilizes data, systems, and applications to collect, enter, manipulate, update, and maintain data according to prescribed Bureau and program standards.
- Ensures data quality and integrity by adherence to quality control standards and procedures.
- Present evidence and recommendations to members of the public, and land, mineral, mining, and energy related agencies.
- Provide advice, assistance, and instruction in legal interpretation and other information on land and mineral leasing laws.
- Prepares a variety of legal documents and responses to protest, contest, disclaimers, and appeals.