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CASES PENDING

Mr. WHITTEN. Please list for the record, by program area, the current number of cases pending. [The information follows:]

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Mr. WHITTEN. Please submit a table explaining the utilization of your onboard attorneys for each of the four functions: legal advice, administrative proceedings, civil litigation, and criminal litigation. Please describe any change in the trend of this distribution which you may have noticed during the past several years.

Mr. KELLY. That data can be derived from Your Work Measurement System. I will supply the information for the record. [The information follows:]

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As can be seen from an examination of the table, the distribution of OGC attorney staff time by activity has not changed substantially over the two year life of our

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work measurement system. In fact what the system has done is to basically confirm our former "gut feeling" of where our time was spent.

The most significant changes occurred in time spent in civil litigation and criminal litigation. Noteworthy here is the fact that in the civil litigation area, the Farmers Home workload increased substantially with 5,797 cases pending at the start of calendar year 1980 and 9,055 pending at the start of calendar year 1981. This resulted from a net increase in the civil litigation workload and we spent more time there. Conversely, the number of cases pending for criminal litigation decreased and we spent less time percentage-wise there.

USE OF NEW POSITIONS BY LEGAL WORK CATEGORY

Mr. WHITTEN. How would the additional positions you are requesting be divided among these four areas?

Mr. KELLY. The four areas-legal advice, administrative proceedings, civil litigation and criminal litigation-plus professional development and hearings and claims officer functions will account for 100 percent of the time of the additional personnel. Because the new personnel will be in non-supervisory positions, they will not be spending time on internal management.

The individual work activities of the new personnel will vary but it can be assumed that because they will be utilized in many areas, an average time percent based on that of the office as a whole will provide a reasonable estimate. Such an estimate suggests, the new personnel will spend 53.2 percent of their time on legal advice, 11.5 percent on administrative proceedings, 25.5 percent on civil litigation, 3.1 percent on criminal litigation, 3.6 percent on hearings or claims office functions, and 3.1 percent on professional development.

DEFENSIVE LITIGATION

Mr. WHITTEN. Approximately what percentage of your attorneys' time may be characterized as being spent in defensive litigation? Mr. KELLY. Our Work Measurement System does not segregate litigation as to defensive or offensive so a definitive answer is not possible. On the basis of a quick analysis, we have found, however, that approximately 48 percent of our litigation is defensive. Considering that we spend 35.5 percent of our total attorney time on litigation that means that approximately 17 percent of our attorney time is spent on defensive litigation.

STAFF-YEAR MODULES

Mr. WHITTEN. On pages 113-114 of the explanatory notes, you explain in some detail the requested increase of $1.438 million. Four of the items appear to be justified based on payroll modules. For example, item c requests an increase of $173,000 saying that if this increase is not provided, a staff-year reduction of 8 positions would have to be borne. The four payroll modules which are used appear to range from a low of $21,633 per position to a high of $39,000 per position. Please describe in some detail how these payroll calculations were determined, and in particular, why the payroll modules appear to be so far apart.

Mr. KELLY. Staff-year figures were attached to each of the increase requests to provide the Committee with an estimate of the impact of not receiving particular increase items; because of rounding, the average staff-year cost per increase item will vary. On

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