Attorney Supervisor

About the role

The Office of the Director, Legal Unit (OD Legal) serves as the general counsel’s office for DIR and provides advice and representation to the DIR Director, department leadership, and division chiefs in the performance of their statutory functions.

Responsibilities

• Reviews the work of a team of OD Legal attorneys involved in the representation of the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, the Department, and division chiefs and managers in a variety of subject areas within the responsibility and jurisdiction of the Department, which are broadly in the labor and employment area.
• Affords assistance to the ACC and ensures direct managerial support and oversight is in place to improve the coordination and efficiency of the workflow, mitigate errors or oversights, and promptly report sensitive matters to leadership.
• Plans, directs, coordinates, evaluates, and supervises the work of a group of staff attorneys and handles the most complex litigation and policy related matters.
• Provides guidance and supervision to legal unit attorneys in multiple substantive areas of law including: California public works law, including prevailing wages and apprenticeship; Workers' compensation law, including laws related to self-insured employers; Employment law (Government Code, Title VII, FEHA Americans with Disabilities Act, Age Discrimination in Employment, Unemployment Insurance Code, Labor Code) related to Department personnel matters; and California Public Records Act, privacy laws, or other state or federal laws imposing obligations on the Department, which may be the subject of litigation.

Requirements

The position requires active membership in the California State Bar and at least eight years of legal experience in the practice of law following admission to the bar; two years of which must have been at a level equivalent to an Attorney IV or Supervising Attorney or three years of which must have been at a level equivalent to an Attorney III.

Qualifications

To be considered for this Attorney Supervisor job opportunity, applicants must be either reachable on an employment list, have transfer eligibility or have reinstatement eligibility. To take the exam and gain employment list eligibility, please click here to access the exam bulletin: https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Exams/ExamBulletin.aspx?ExamControlId=1586

Benefits

Multiple locations and positions are available. Please see other postings under different job control in CalCareers for additional locations and positions. If you are interested in more than one location and/or position, please submit an application for each specific job control.

Pay

Pay information is not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

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