Attorney III - Hearing Officer

About the role

Do you feel at ease in a courtroom setting with your litigation experience? Are you looking for a consistent steady work schedule without the need for billable hours? If so, apply today!

Responsibilities

• Conduct administrative hearings as a Hearing Officer, using communication and courtroom skills for Administrative Procedure Act public assistance appeals, health professional license discipline hearings, and central registry cases.
• Preside over administrative hearings; rule on the admissibility of evidence and motions; and make final agency decisions or recommended orders by applying the law to reach proper conclusions in contested agency cases.
• Draft final decisions and recommended orders in contested cases.

Requirements

• Three years of experience as an attorney practicing law and providing legal services such as preparing and trying cases, advising clients, and/or interpreting laws or administrative policies.
• Admitted to the Nebraska Bar (in accordance with Section 7‑101, Nebraska Revised, Reissued Statutes of 1943).

Qualifications

• Excellent communication; ease in controlling a courtroom setting; good legal analysis, research, and writing skills; skill in evaluating evidence when applying the law to reach proper legal conclusions.

Skills

• Knowledge of state and/or federal statutory and case law and constitutional provisions pertinent to agency programs; techniques of preparing or drafting legal documents and forms; judicial procedures and rules of evidence; principles and practices of legal research; procedures of trial and administrative hearings; principles and practices of criminal and civil law administration.
• Skill in preparing summaries, legal analyses, findings and conclusions, briefs and other legal documents; negotiating and communicating with others sufficient to persuade their acceptance of contentious goals or viewpoints; analyzing and interpreting various factors, perspectives, and options and applying critical thinking to resolve issues.
• Ability to prepare and communicate in person and by telephone, email, summaries, and correspondence the facts and arguments of a case to persuade others to accept the viewpoint presented; interact with legal associates, other governmental employees, the public, and representatives of parties involved in a case; formulate legal opinions and recommendations based on legal research and investigations; conduct legal research and investigations; identify critical elements of legal questions or issues and select appropriate course of action; prepare drafts of legal documents and forms; interpret and apply statutes, case law, decisions of judicial and administrative hearings, and administrative rules and policies.

Benefits

• Stable employment with fixed work hours
• 13 paid holidays (including Arbor Day)
• Vacation and sick leave equating to 24 days in the first year, accruing immediately
• Military leave, civil service leave, funeral leave, and more
• 156% State‑matched retirement
• 79% employer‑paid health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Employer‑paid $20,000 life insurance policy
• No travel required
• No weekend work
• Opportunity to be part of meaningful work and make a difference
• No billable hour requirements

Pay

Hiring rate: $38.632 (hourly)

Schedule

Stable employment with fixed work hours; no travel; no weekend work.