OAG - Solicitor General | Assistant Attorney General V - VI | 26-0488

About the role

The Solicitor General Division is seeking an Assistant Solicitor General whose work will involve highly complex to highly advanced appellate work (job duties will vary with experience).

Responsibilities

• Represents the state's interests before state and federal appellate courts
• Researches and drafts briefs
• Prepares for and delivers oral arguments
• Provides legal advice, counsel, and assistance to client state agencies
• Performs legal research and reports findings and conclusions
• Analyzes complex factual and legal issues related to appellate matters
• Assists with training less experienced staff
• Performs related work as assigned
• Maintains relevant knowledge necessary to perform essential job functions
• Attends work regularly in compliance with agreed-upon work schedule
• Ensures security and confidentiality of sensitive and/or protected information
• Complies with all agency policies and procedures, including those pertaining to ethics and integrity

Qualifications

• Education: Graduation from an accredited law school
• Experience: Four years of full-time experience working in the following (or closely related) fields: appellate law
• Experience: Judicial clerkship in a federal or state appellate court
• Licensed to practice law in the State of Texas
• Member in good standing with the State Bar of Texas
• Knowledge of laws, legal principles, and practices relevant to appellate matters
• Skills: Using a computer for word-processing and data entry/retrieval, handling multiple tasks, prioritizing, and meeting deadlines, effective oral and written communication, sound judgment and effective decision making, receiving and responding positively to constructive feedback, working cooperatively with others in a professional office environment, providing excellent customer service, arranging for personal transportation for business-related travel, working more than 40 hours as needed and in compliance with the FLSA, lifting and relocating 30 lbs., traveling (including overnight travel) up to 5%

Benefits

OAG employees enjoy excellent benefits along with tremendous opportunities to do important work at a large, dynamic state agency making a positive difference in the lives of Texans.