Managing Attorney Civil Division

Are you looking for a change of pace or a new opportunity to expand your professional experience If the financial and billable hour pressures of private practice are weighing on you the Wyoming Attorney Generals Office may be the right place for your next career move. We offer interesting meaningful work while prioritizing a healthy work-life balance.

We are currently seeking an experienced attorney to serve as a section supervisor in our Civil Division. This role involves supervising and mentoring a team of attorneys and a paralegal while providing legal representation for various state agencies. Responsibilities include handling civil litigation trial and appellate assignmentsincluding complex or high-profile casesand providing general agency advice. You will also review administrative rules advise on statutes and procedures and evaluate draft legislation for the Governor and agency clients.

The Attorney Generals Office provides a dynamic and collegial work addition to a professional atmosphere the State of Wyoming offers an excellent total compensation package including:

• Paid annual and sick leave
• Paid holidays
• Retirement with employer contributions
• Deferred Compensation Plan with employer contributions
• Health insurance with an employer contribution towards premiums
• Insurance options for health dental life vision ambulance and short- and long-term disability
• Longevity pay

• Provide legal advice to the various agencies within the State of Wyoming on a day-to-day basis.
• Supervise and manage the attorneys and paralegals in the section including assigning cases and monitoring workload.
• Review and advise agency personnel in responses to inquiries complaints and other communications.
• Conduct legal and other research.
• Present legal conclusions and advice in various formats including legal documents oral presentations and formal and informal legal opinions.
• Handle appeals of various matters.
• Draft legal documents including complaints answers memoranda of law briefs and discovery and drafting and editing agency rules.
• Consult with the division deputy on legal strategic decisions on cases.
• Confer and collaborate with other attorneys to formulate plans policies or strategies.
• Provide input on case assignments.
• Use specialized legal skills knowledge and experience to plan actions devise strategies resolve problems and formulate legal questions explanations positions and responses.
• Review administrative rules and regulations.
• Advise agency clients about relevant statutes and administrative procedures.
• Receive and provide training necessary to stay up to date on all aspects of relevant law.
• Provide assistance to clients and other staff attorneys with legal questions.
• Other duties as assigned.

AGENCY REQUIREMENTS/**AGENCY REQUIREMENTS:

The online application system will require you to provide a significant amount of information during the application process. The system also allows you to attach additional electronic documents.

**All applicants must provide the following as part of the application process:

• Professional resume
• References
• Recent writing sample
• Law school transcript
• Cover letter explaining your interest in the position

• Knowledge of substantive and procedural law of state and federal courts and administrative agencies.
• Knowledge of the technical requirements of the law of evidence and procedure.
• Knowledge of political and legislative processes.
• Knowledge of statutory requirements affecting the conduct of public business by state agency clients.
• Knowledge of trial and appellate practice administrative law and civil procedure.
• Skill in legal research including drafting legal memoranda and briefs presenting results and conclusions in an advocates position.
• Skill in organizing ideas and legal principles in clear and concise oral and written presentations.
• Skill in communicating facts theories and arguments to people of varying educational social and economic backgrounds.
• Skill in assessing legal strengths and weaknesses of the clients position and negotiating or litigating relative merits.
• Skill in public speaking and case presentation.
• Skill in writing clearly and concisely.
• Ability to anticipate problems and prepare for them.
• Ability to isolate and organize multiple issues and present each clearly.
• Ability to relate factual situations to personnel and licensing policies under the statutory guidelines.
• Ability to ask questions discuss legal issues and talk with people.
• Ability to manage large amounts of information and analyze for legal impact.
• Ability to organize ideas and legal principles in clear and concise oral and written presentations.
• Ability to locate authorities assimilate and reason from related authorities.
• Ability to litigate civil actions and take them through appeal if necessary.
• Ability to prioritize and re-prioritize tasks as necessary.

PHYSICAL WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Desk work
• Ability to travel

• FLSA: Exempt
• This position is at-will and is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the Attorney General (W.S.)
• Salary is commensurate with relevant legal experience.
• Those with experience or interest in civil litigation are encouraged to apply.
• Successful applicants are required to pass a criminal background investigation.

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