Attorney V - VII - Enforcement Litigation and Collections Division
Travis County
- Austin, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Attends Commissioners Court meetings to advise clients in executive session.
- Appears in court at all levels for motions practice, trials, and administrative hearings.
- Presents analysis of contracts, policies, and laws. Performs legal research. Searches resources and studies legal records and documents to obtain information applicable to case or issue under consideration.
- Drafts legal memoranda, briefs, motions, orders, and other legal documents.
- Provides prelitigation counseling and resolves issues through negotiation, mediation, and/or trial.
- Oversees the creation and issuance of legal documents, including contracts, motions, orders, official policies, and other related documents. Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Attorney V: J.D./LL.B. from an accredited law school AND six (6) years licensed attorney work experience.Attorney VI: J.D./LL.B. from an accredited law school AND eight (8) years licensed attorney work experience.Attorney VII: J.D./LL.B. from an accredited law school AND ten (10) years licensed attorney work experience.Licenses, Registrations, Certifications, or Special Requirements:
Licensed to practice law in the State of Texas.Preferred:
- Experience in civil litigation.
- Experience in representing governmental entities.
- Jurisprudence, criminal and civil law and procedures, including constitutional and statutory law.
- Federal, State, Local and County applicable laws, rules, regulations and guidelines.
- Methods and practices of pleading cases and of effective techniques for presentation of cases in court or to effectively present facts and precedents verbally and in writing in law related matters.
- Policies, practices, procedures and legal terminology related to court system.
- Computer equipment to include word processing, spreadsheets, databases and a variety of software packages.
- Business letter writing, grammar and punctuation, and report preparation.
- May be required to develop knowledge of and adhere to federal and state laws requiring the confidential handling of certain health information.
- Problem-solving and decision-making.
- Analyzing and appraising facts, policies, procedures and legal precedents in area of specialty.
- Both verbal and written communication, including presentations.
- Conduct legal research and analysis, both manually and electronically.
- Present facts, precedents and arguments verbally and in writing and apply negotiation skills.
- Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Work independently.
- Manage time well and perform multiple tasks, and organize diverse activities.
- Work well under pressure and exercise tact in trying situations.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with departmental clientele, representatives of outside agencies, other County employees and officials, and the general public.
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