Assistant City Attorney - Civil Division

We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, no invention, no summarizing away detail. Remove boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions, cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. We need to parse the job posting. Let's extract relevant content: Job Duties: The City of Duluth seeks an Assistant City Attorney... At direction of City Attorney... Under supervision of Deputy City Attorney... perform professional legal work, primarily civil litigation to include complex and class actions in state and federal court. Experience with multi-state and class action litigation preferred. Candidates should be licensed in Minnesota, have minimum of five years’ relevant legal experience, and possess excellent drafting, research, communication, and interpersonal skills. Then description of Office: The Office of the City Attorney is committed to providing excellent legal services... etc. Then description of Duluth city. Then Summary/Purpose About the Job: To perform a variety of legal duties to support the City Attorney’s Office, which may include preparing and drafting briefs, pleadings, ordinances, resolutions, contracts, leases, permits, letters, memos, and other documents; receiving and reviewing claims, administrative proceedings, and lawsuits against the City and its departments for litigation or settlement; initiating litigation or administrative proceedings on behalf of the City and its departments; providing written and oral legal opinions to departments, employees and officers of the City and its related authorities; providing legal support to the City in negotiations of contracts or agreements; prosecuting misdemeanors, gross misdemeanors and violations of City ordinances; preparing for and representing the City and its departments in all court hearings, trials, administrative proceedings, mediation and arbitration. Then DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF THE CLASS: description of routine/complex duties, supervision received/given. Then SUPERVISION RECEIVED, SUPERVISION GIVEN. Then Essential Duties & Responsibilities (other Duties May Be Assigned): a long list of duties. Then Minimum Education Required: Juris Doctorate Degree from an accredited law school or equivalent. Minimum Experience Required: No Legal Experience Required. Municipal Experience Is Preferred. (But earlier said minimum five years relevant legal experience; contradictory. We must preserve all substantive info; we cannot resolve contradictions; just include both statements.) License Requirements: Must be licensed to practice law in the State Bar of Minnesota, in good standing. Knowledge Requirements: long list. Skill Requirements: long list. Ability Requirements: long list. Physical Demands: sedentary etc. Work Environment: description. We need to decide which sections to include: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We have content for About the role (summary/purpose). Responsibilities (essential duties). Requirements (minimum education, experience, license). Qualifications maybe overlapping with requirements? Could treat Qualifications as knowledge/skill/ability? But we need to avoid duplication. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine some. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". No Pay, Schedule, Benefits unless posting actually states them. The posting does not mention pay, benefits, schedule. So we should NOT include Pay, Schedule, Benefits sections. Thus we may include: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. Possibly also Knowledge? But we can fold knowledge into Qualifications or Skills. We need to use

for section headings. Use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

  for prose. We must preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details, not just summarize. That means we need to include the long lists as they are, but we can format them as

  • items. We must not repeat job title as heading. The page already shows it, so we don't add a heading for "Assistant City Attorney". Good. We must not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; none present. We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The text includes some duplicated lines? There's some repeated paragraphs about establishing positive working relationships appears twice. We need to deduplicate? The instruction: remove duplicated lines. So we should eliminate duplicate sentences/paragraphs. We need to identify duplicates and keep only one occurrence. Let's extract the essential duties list and see duplicates. Essential Duties & Responsibilities list includes many items, some repeated later: "Establish and maintain positive working relationships with departments by maintaining two-way communication, producing consistent results, advocating for the team when appropriate, and offering expertise to improve processes, systems, and the organization." appears twice near end. Also "Establish and maintain positive working relationship with the employees by maintaining two-way communication, producing consistent results, advocating for the team when appropriate, and offering expertise to improve processes, systems, and the organization." Slight variation (relationship with employees vs departments). Not exact duplicate but similar. We'll keep both as they are subtly different. Also "Provide written and oral legal opinions as requested by the City Attorney." appears earlier and later? It appears in the list: "Provide written and oral legal opinions as requested by the City Attorney." and also earlier "Provide written and oral legal opinions to departments, employees and officers of the City and its related authorities;" Not duplicate. We'll keep as is. Now we need to format. Sections:

    About the role

    -> prose summarizing the role: The City of Duluth seeks an Assistant City Attorney... etc. We'll include the initial paragraph about direction, supervision, litigation experience, licensing, experience, skills. Also maybe include the description of Office and Duluth city? That could be part of About the role or separate? The instruction: About the role section heading for e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can put the descriptive paragraphs about the office and city under About the role. Thus About the role will contain multiple paragraphs: the initial求职 paragraph, then Office commitment, then Duluth description. We'll put each paragraph in

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    Responsibilities

    -> list of duties from Essential Duties & Responsibilities (including the earlier summary/purpose? Actually the summary/purpose about the job also lists duties; but we can combine all duty statements into Responsibilities. We must preserve all substantive info; we can include both the summary/purpose list and the essential duties list. However there may be overlap; we should avoid duplication but keep unique items. Let's extract all duty statements. From Summary/Purpose About the Job: - preparing and drafting briefs, pleadings, ordinances, resolutions, contracts, leases, permits, letters, memos, and other documents - receiving and reviewing claims, administrative proceedings, and lawsuits against the City and its departments for litigation or settlement - initiating litigation or administrative proceedings on behalf of the City and its departments - providing written and oral legal opinions to departments, employees and officers of the City and its related authorities - providing legal support to the City in negotiations of contracts or agreements - prosecuting misdemeanors, gross misdemeanors and violations of City ordinances - preparing for and representing the City and its departments in all court hearings, trials, administrative proceedings, mediation and arbitration From Essential Duties & Responsibilities (list): - Perform general legal research and prepare written and oral opinions on various legal issues for the City Council, City departments, City authorities, and various boards and commissions. - Prosecute violations of City ordinances, misdemeanors, and certain gross misdemeanor level violations and represent the City and its authorities in all actions at law. - Assist in preparing, reviewing and drafting ordinances, resolutions, motions; review exceptions to model agreements/contracts to be made or entered into by the City and its authorities and approve the form of such instruments. - Attend meetings and provide legal support and advice to the City Council, City authorities, and various city boards and commissions as directed. - Represent the City and its authorities in litigation; appear before courts and administrative proceedings to represent the City's interest as required. - Provide technical assistance with respect to the acquisition, sale or abandonment of real property including acceptance of deeds on behalf of the City; assist with legal work regarding elections, special assessment districts and bond issues. - Investigate claims and complaints against the City and its authorities and recommend appropriate action regarding their handling. - Receive and respond to public inquiries, citizen complaints, and requests for information. - Establish and maintain positive working relationships with departments by maintaining two-way communication, producing consistent results, advocating for the team when appropriate, and offering expertise to improve processes, systems, and the organization. - Provide written and oral legal opinions as requested by the City Attorney. - Provide training, coaching, and mentoring for employees. - Demonstrate highly effective leadership by promoting and supporting the mission and vision of the organization, recognizing and defining issues, and taking initiative towards improvements. - Recommend the hire, transfer, assignment, promotion, employee grievance resolution, discipline, suspension, or discharge of assigned personnel. - Provide for ongoing training of employees in emerging methods, trends, technologies, and proper and safe work methods and procedures. - Coordinate with various City departments, other government agencies, and community groups to develop methods of sharing resources, minimizing duplication, and simplifying procedures. - Establish and maintain positive working relationship with the employees by maintaining two-way communication, producing consistent results, advocating for the team when appropriate, and offering expertise to improve processes, systems, and the organization. - Other duties may be assigned. Also earlier there were supervision received/given statements; those are more about supervision, not duties. Could be included under Responsibilities? Might be better under About the role? But we can include them under Responsibilities as they describe supervisory aspects. However the instruction: Use
    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can treat supervision statements as part of responsibilities list. Supervision Received: The supervisor provides administrative direction with assignments in terms of broadly defined missions or functions. Incumbents have responsibility for planning, designing, and carrying out programs, projects, studies, or other work independently. Supervision Given: Does have supervisory responsibility, typically for employees who exercise broad discretion. The supervisor provides broad guidance including mission and vision. Makes recommendations about hire, termination, and performance. We can include these as list items. Now we need to ensure we don't duplicate items that appear elsewhere. For example, "Provide written and oral legal opinions as requested by the City Attorney." appears in essential duties; also earlier "providing written and oral legal opinions to departments, employees and officers of the City and its related authorities". Not exact duplicate, keep both. Now Requirements section: Minimum Education Required, Minimum Experience Required, License Requirements. Also maybe include "Candidates for this position should be licensed in Minnesota, have a minimum of five years’ relevant legal experience, and possess excellent drafting, research, communication, and interpersonal skills." That's from early paragraph. We'll include that as part of Requirements. We need to avoid duplication: The Minimum Experience Required says "No Legal Experience Required. Municipal Experience Is Preferred." This conflicts with earlier "minimum of five years’ relevant legal experience". We'll keep both as separate statements. Qualifications: Could include Knowledge Requirements, Skill Requirements, Ability Requirements. But we might combine Knowledge, Skills, Abilities into Qualifications section. However the instruction says we can have Qualifications section. We'll include Knowledge, Skills, Abilities as sub-lists under Qualifications? But we must use

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      ). We'll just put all knowledge, skill, ability statements as list items under Qualifications. But we also have Skills section separate; we could split: Qualifications for knowledge, Skills for skill requirements, maybe Abilities for ability requirements. However we have