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 I am an attorney working for the government. The duties of my job position mostly involve considering legal requests called "petitions." My job title is "Petitions Attorney." I am unclear as to when the first letters in "Petitions Attorney" should be capitalized. 
 This is a matter of style and convention rather than of grammar. The usual convention is not to capitalize, unless it is in a context where you really want to stress that this is your job title.  
 eg I ask you what kind of work you do. Here, I don't really care about your official job title. 
 eg I am reading the employment section of your resume. I expect it to tell me the job titles for your previous periods of employment.  
 Finally, as a general comment, I...</description></item><item><title>Hopefully easy question on capitalization</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HopefullyEasyQuestionCapitalization/zhbnn/post.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:43:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:452519</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HopefullyEasyQuestionCapitalization/zhbnn/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-452519.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide. 
 I am an attorney working for the government. The duties of my job position mostly involve considering legal requests called "petitions." My job title is "Petitions Attorney." I am unclear as to when the first letters in "Petitions Attorney" should be capitalized. 
 Are the following correct or incorrect? 
  I am a Petitions Attorney. 
  My coworkers include 10 other petitions attorneys. 
  Petitions Attorneys are a type of attorney working for the federal government. 
  Petitions Attorney John Smith has worked for the government for 10 years. 
   Five petitions attorneys were transferred from location X to location Y. 
 I look forward to learning the correct way to capitalize...</description></item></channel></rss>