Deputy City Attorney - Labor Team - City Attorney's Office (8177)
Deputy City Attorney - Labor Team - City Attorney's Office (8177)
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About the Labor Team
The Labor Team is a collaborative and dynamic group of 18 attorneys 5 paralegals and legal assistants and 7 legal secretaries. The Team defends the City in state and federal civil litigation (through trial and appeals) in administrative proceedings involving labor and employment matters and provides proactive advice and risk management strategies to its client departments on all aspects of the Citys labor and employment relationships. The Team advises and represents the City in its on-going relationships with the more than 30 unions that represent City employees including collective bargaining labor grievance arbitrations and defending unfair labor practice and other administrative charges.
Deputy City Attorney Position and Responsibilities
Attorneys on the Labor Team are assigned a caseload of civil litigation and administrative matters. They handle all aspects of their cases including case assessment litigation strategy client communication and coordination conducting and responding to discovery all motion practice settlement evaluation and negotiation trial and appeal. Also attorneys may be assigned to provide labor and employment advice to specific client departments and to support collective bargaining.
Qualifications :
Minimum Qualification
- Licensed to practice law in California
Desired Qualifications
- Three or more years of labor or employment experience such as employment advice and counseling litigation labor relations or collective bargaining experience. Candidates need not have experience in all of these aspects of the labor and employment practice
- Ability to assume responsibility quickly work both independently and collaboratively and identify and assess substantive and procedural legal issues
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently meet multiple competing deadlines manage workload changes and dive into new assignments quickly
- Excellent written and oral communication and advocacy skill
- Ability to manage investigate and litigate multiple matters in both state and federal courts and administrative proceedings
- Ability to handle all phases of litigation including intake and investigation written discovery depositions motion practice settlement negotiation trial and appeal
- Experience handling court appearances and oral argument
- Familiarity with state and federal rules of civil procedure and local rules of court
- Experience with e-discovery
- Demonstrated interest comfort and good working knowledge of sophisticated document review tools
- Ability to work effectively with paralegals legal assistants investigators and other colleagues
- Ability to exercise excellent judgment adapt to changes and be curious
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a positive attitude
- Commitment to valuing diversity and contributing to an inclusive working and learning environment
- Interest and ability to work successfully as part of a team
Additional Information :
Salary and Benefits
The Deputy City Attorney position has a 16-step salary scale ranging from $150124 to $263042 effective January 4 2025. The successful applicant is appointed to a salary step based on years of experience as a lawyer. The City offers robust health retirement and other benefits. For more information please visit: Attorneys are represented by the Municipal Attorneys Association. Information about compensation and benefits is available by entering Classification Code 8177 at apply for this position please submit your resume and cover letter. Applicants who advance in the selection process must submit at least two references and at least two writing samples including at least one significant and substantive filed brief.
Verification
Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. If education verification is required information on how to verify education requirements including verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency can be found at ones education training or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.
All work experience education training and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your application by the filing deadline. Information submitted after the filing deadline will not be considered in determining whether you meet the minimum qualifications.
Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application.
Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility disqualification or may lead to lower scores.
Selection Procedures
The selection process will include evaluation of applications in relation to minimum requirements. Applicants meeting the minimum qualifications are not guaranteed advancement to the interview. Depending on the number of applicants the Department may establish and implement additional screening mechanisms to comparatively evaluate the qualifications of candidates. If this becomes necessary only those applicants whose qualifications most closely meet the needs of the Department will be invited to participate in the next stage of the selection process. The stated desirable qualifications may be considered at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring.
Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:
- Information About the Hiring Process
- Conviction History
- Employee Benefits Overview
- Equal Employment Opportunity
- Disaster Service Worker
- ADA Accommodation
- Right to Work
- Copies of Application Documents
- Diversity Statement
HOW TO APPLY
Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process. Visit begin the application process.
- Select the Apply Now button and follow instructions on the screen
Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and therefore it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and kept up-to-date. Also applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and @).
Applicants will receive a confirmation email that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.
Human Resources Analyst Information: If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process please send your inquires to Jumy Dang Senior HR Analyst at
The City and County of San Francisco encourages women minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex race age religion color national origin ancestry physical disability mental disability medical condition (associated with cancer a history of cancer or genetic characteristics) HIV/AIDS status genetic information marital status sexual orientation gender gender identity gender expression military and veteran status or other protected category under the law.
The City and County of San Francisco encourages women minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex race age religion color national origin ancestry physical disability mental disability medical condition (associated with cancer a history of cancer or genetic characteristics) HIV/AIDS status genetic information marital status sexual orientation gender gender identity gender expression military and veteran status or other protected category under the law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type
Full Time
