Senior Deputy County Counsel-Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk
for section headings, - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We need to decide what to put as lists vs prose. For responsibilities, we can list bullet points. For qualifications, maybe list. For skills, list. For requirements (transportation, honesty, background), list.
We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from posting.
Let's extract details:
Description paragraph(s):
- The Office of County Counsel is a full-service law office, tasked with handling the County’s civil law needs, including proactive participation in all phases of government decision making and a very active and successful trial litigation program.
- The Senior Deputy County Counsel will independently handle cases and assignments that are moderately difficult that have impact upon the County and its officers, boards and districts.
- This position provides legal advice to County officials on matters primarily involving finance and governance issues and advocates on behalf of the County of San Diego, as well as its officers and departments’ employees, by representing them in civil litigation in state and federal courts as well as before administrative tribunals.
- The attorney in this position is in a dedicated section that provides a broad range of legal advice and litigation support to departments in the County’s Finance and General Government Group such as the Treasurer-Tax Collector, Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk (ARCC), Auditor and Controller, Chief Administrative Office, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Office of Economic and Government Affairs, Office of Ethics and Compliance, Office of Financial Planning, and Registrar of Voters.
- This position works in connection with Assessment Appeals Board (“AAB”) hearings, including witness preparation, legal advice, representation at hearings, and drafting proposed written findings.
- The attorney will also provide litigation support related to AAB matters, including preparing and filing writs of administrative mandate, as appropriate, to challenge AAB decisions.
- In addition, the attorney will provide advisory legal support to ARCC with a focus on the review and development of policies and procedures, contract review, legislative support, California Public Records Act requests, and records retention.
- The attorney will be expected to complete appraiser training, which will be provided by the Assessor’s Office.
- Although a mix of remote and in-person work will be permitted, the attorney must remain available for in-person for AAB hearings, which generally occur on Thursdays.
- Please note that the County is advertising three recruitments at the Senior Deputy County Counsel, Principal Deputy County Counsel, or Supervising Deputy County Counsel level. The candidate should apply for the position that best reflects the candidate’s level of experience. Please read the Senior Deputy County Counsel job description for additional information.
But the last two sentences about three recruitments and reading job description maybe considered application instructions? It's more about the posting. Might be considered meta but not boilerplate. However instruction says remove application instructions. This is not exactly application instruction but maybe still considered. Safer to keep? It's about level of experience; could be considered part of description. I'd keep it as part of description.
Ideal Candidate paragraph:
- The ideal candidate has experience providing legal advice to clients regarding assessment practices and the California Revenue and Taxation Code, as well as representing clients in writs of administrative mandate and refund actions.
- The ideal candidate is an analytical thinker, able to accurately identify and articulate the critical issues in a case.
- Additionally, the ideal candidate has excellent legal research and writing skills, strong courtroom presence, and the ability to work collaboratively and professionally with other attorneys and support staff.
Qualifications:
- Active membership in good standing with the State Bar of California, AND three (3) years of professional, post-bar civil legal experience as an attorney handling civil law matters and/or cases in a public or private sector law office.
- To be considered for this position, please provide your CA Bar number or attach a copy of your California Bar Card to your application. (This is application instruction; should be removed per instruction: remove application instructions. So we should drop that line.)
Notes:
- Please attach a copy of your resume to your application. (application instruction, remove)
- Please attach a concise substantive legal writing sample to your application. (remove)
Also Required Positions may involve necessary and timely transportation for field travel, requiring the ability to arrange transportation to different worksites, meetings, or field work. Must have a reputation for honesty and trustworthiness. Misdemeanor and/or felony convictions may be disqualifying depending on type, number, severity, and recency. Prior to appointment, candidates will be subject to a background investigation.
These are requirements.
Pay: Salary $155,542.40 - $189,072.00 Annually.
Schedule: mix of remote and in-person work permitted, must be available for in-person AAB hearings on Thursdays.
Now we need to decide sections.
We have description (the initial paragraphs). Responsibilities: we could extract duties from description that are action-oriented. But we already have description covering many duties. To avoid duplication, we could treat description as About the role, and Responsibilities as a list of specific duties. However the instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we combine description and responsibilities into About the role? But we need to follow heading usage: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We can include About the role (description), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (transportation, honesty, background), Qualifications (Bar membership, experience), Skills (ideal candidate traits), Pay, Schedule.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Good.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to ensure we don't create sections with no real content. All sections we plan have content.
Now we need to format lists: For each section that has list of items, use - . For prose, use
.
We need to decide which content is list vs prose.
About the role: Could be prose paragraphs. We'll put as
maybe multiple
elements.
Responsibilities: Could be list of duties: independent handling cases, providing legal advice, representing in litigation, providing advice to departments, working with AAB hearings, preparing writs, advisory legal support to ARCC, completing appraiser training, availability for in-person hearings Thursdays, mix remote/in-person. We'll list.
Requirements: list: ability to arrange transportation for field travel, reputation for honesty and trustworthiness, misdemeanor/felony convictions may be disqualifying, subject to background investigation.
Qualifications: list: Active membership in good standing with State Bar of California; three (3) years of professional post-bar civil legal experience as an attorney handling civil law matters in public or private sector.
Skills: list: experience providing legal advice regarding assessment practices and California Revenue and Taxation Code; representing clients in writs of administrative mandate and refund actions; analytical thinker able to identify and articulate critical issues; excellent legal research and writing skills; strong courtroom presence; ability to work collaboratively and professionally with other attorneys and support staff.
Pay:
with salary range.
Schedule:
describing remote/in-person mix and Thursday hearings.
Now we need to ensure we preserve all substantive information. Did we miss any? Let's verify.
From description we included: Office of County Counsel full-service law office, handling civil law needs, proactive participation in government decision making, active trial litigation program. Senior Deputy County Counsel will independently handle cases and assignments moderately difficult impacting County etc. Provides legal advice to County officials on finance/governance, advocates representing them in civil litigation state/federal courts and administrative tribunals. Attorney in dedicated section providing broad range legal advice and litigation support to departments: list of departments. Works in connection with AAB hearings: witness prep, legal advice, representation, drafting findings. Provide litigation support related to AAB matters: preparing/filling writs of administrative mandate to challenge AAB decisions. Provide advisory legal support to ARCC: review/development policies/procedures, contract review, legislative support, CPRA requests, records retention. Expected to complete appraiser training provided by Assessor’s Office. Mix remote/in-person permitted, must be available for in-person AAB hearings Thursdays. Note about three recruitments and reading job description (we kept maybe as part of description). Did we include that note? Not yet. We could include as a sentence in description. It's substantive: "Please note that the County is advertising three recruitments at the Senior Deputy County Counsel, Principal Deputy County Counsel, or Supervising Deputy County Counsel level. The candidate should apply for the position that best reflects the candidate’s level of experience. Please read the Senior Deputy County Counsel job description for additional information." This is more about application but still part of posting. Might be considered application instruction? It's about which level to apply. Might be considered not essential but still substantive. However instruction says remove application instructions. This is somewhat instructional. Safer to drop it? The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." This is application instruction (telling candidate which level to apply). So we should remove it. Good.
Thus description excludes that.
Now check if any other substantive info: "Ideal Candidate" we captured as Skills.
"Qualifications" we captured.
"Notes" about attachments removed.
"Also Required" we captured as Requirements.
Now ensure we didn't miss any details like "The attorney will be expected to complete appraiser training, which will be provided by the Assessor’s Office." included in Responsibilities.
Now check for duplication: We have description includes many duties; Responsibilities also list duties may duplicate. To avoid duplication, maybe we should not duplicate. The instruction:
for prose. We need to decide what to put as lists vs prose. For responsibilities, we can list bullet points. For qualifications, maybe list. For skills, list. For requirements (transportation, honesty, background), list. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from posting. Let's extract details: Description paragraph(s): - The Office of County Counsel is a full-service law office, tasked with handling the County’s civil law needs, including proactive participation in all phases of government decision making and a very active and successful trial litigation program. - The Senior Deputy County Counsel will independently handle cases and assignments that are moderately difficult that have impact upon the County and its officers, boards and districts. - This position provides legal advice to County officials on matters primarily involving finance and governance issues and advocates on behalf of the County of San Diego, as well as its officers and departments’ employees, by representing them in civil litigation in state and federal courts as well as before administrative tribunals. - The attorney in this position is in a dedicated section that provides a broad range of legal advice and litigation support to departments in the County’s Finance and General Government Group such as the Treasurer-Tax Collector, Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk (ARCC), Auditor and Controller, Chief Administrative Office, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Office of Economic and Government Affairs, Office of Ethics and Compliance, Office of Financial Planning, and Registrar of Voters. - This position works in connection with Assessment Appeals Board (“AAB”) hearings, including witness preparation, legal advice, representation at hearings, and drafting proposed written findings. - The attorney will also provide litigation support related to AAB matters, including preparing and filing writs of administrative mandate, as appropriate, to challenge AAB decisions. - In addition, the attorney will provide advisory legal support to ARCC with a focus on the review and development of policies and procedures, contract review, legislative support, California Public Records Act requests, and records retention. - The attorney will be expected to complete appraiser training, which will be provided by the Assessor’s Office. - Although a mix of remote and in-person work will be permitted, the attorney must remain available for in-person for AAB hearings, which generally occur on Thursdays. - Please note that the County is advertising three recruitments at the Senior Deputy County Counsel, Principal Deputy County Counsel, or Supervising Deputy County Counsel level. The candidate should apply for the position that best reflects the candidate’s level of experience. Please read the Senior Deputy County Counsel job description for additional information. But the last two sentences about three recruitments and reading job description maybe considered application instructions? It's more about the posting. Might be considered meta but not boilerplate. However instruction says remove application instructions. This is not exactly application instruction but maybe still considered. Safer to keep? It's about level of experience; could be considered part of description. I'd keep it as part of description. Ideal Candidate paragraph: - The ideal candidate has experience providing legal advice to clients regarding assessment practices and the California Revenue and Taxation Code, as well as representing clients in writs of administrative mandate and refund actions. - The ideal candidate is an analytical thinker, able to accurately identify and articulate the critical issues in a case. - Additionally, the ideal candidate has excellent legal research and writing skills, strong courtroom presence, and the ability to work collaboratively and professionally with other attorneys and support staff. Qualifications: - Active membership in good standing with the State Bar of California, AND three (3) years of professional, post-bar civil legal experience as an attorney handling civil law matters and/or cases in a public or private sector law office. - To be considered for this position, please provide your CA Bar number or attach a copy of your California Bar Card to your application. (This is application instruction; should be removed per instruction: remove application instructions. So we should drop that line.) Notes: - Please attach a copy of your resume to your application. (application instruction, remove) - Please attach a concise substantive legal writing sample to your application. (remove) Also Required Positions may involve necessary and timely transportation for field travel, requiring the ability to arrange transportation to different worksites, meetings, or field work. Must have a reputation for honesty and trustworthiness. Misdemeanor and/or felony convictions may be disqualifying depending on type, number, severity, and recency. Prior to appointment, candidates will be subject to a background investigation. These are requirements. Pay: Salary $155,542.40 - $189,072.00 Annually. Schedule: mix of remote and in-person work permitted, must be available for in-person AAB hearings on Thursdays. Now we need to decide sections. We have description (the initial paragraphs). Responsibilities: we could extract duties from description that are action-oriented. But we already have description covering many duties. To avoid duplication, we could treat description as About the role, and Responsibilities as a list of specific duties. However the instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we combine description and responsibilities into About the role? But we need to follow heading usage: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We can include About the role (description), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (transportation, honesty, background), Qualifications (Bar membership, experience), Skills (ideal candidate traits), Pay, Schedule.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Good.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to ensure we don't create sections with no real content. All sections we plan have content.
Now we need to format lists: For each section that has list of items, use - . For prose, use
.
We need to decide which content is list vs prose.
About the role: Could be prose paragraphs. We'll put as
maybe multiple
elements.
Responsibilities: Could be list of duties: independent handling cases, providing legal advice, representing in litigation, providing advice to departments, working with AAB hearings, preparing writs, advisory legal support to ARCC, completing appraiser training, availability for in-person hearings Thursdays, mix remote/in-person. We'll list.
Requirements: list: ability to arrange transportation for field travel, reputation for honesty and trustworthiness, misdemeanor/felony convictions may be disqualifying, subject to background investigation.
Qualifications: list: Active membership in good standing with State Bar of California; three (3) years of professional post-bar civil legal experience as an attorney handling civil law matters in public or private sector.
Skills: list: experience providing legal advice regarding assessment practices and California Revenue and Taxation Code; representing clients in writs of administrative mandate and refund actions; analytical thinker able to identify and articulate critical issues; excellent legal research and writing skills; strong courtroom presence; ability to work collaboratively and professionally with other attorneys and support staff.
Pay:
with salary range.
Schedule:
describing remote/in-person mix and Thursday hearings.
Now we need to ensure we preserve all substantive information. Did we miss any? Let's verify.
From description we included: Office of County Counsel full-service law office, handling civil law needs, proactive participation in government decision making, active trial litigation program. Senior Deputy County Counsel will independently handle cases and assignments moderately difficult impacting County etc. Provides legal advice to County officials on finance/governance, advocates representing them in civil litigation state/federal courts and administrative tribunals. Attorney in dedicated section providing broad range legal advice and litigation support to departments: list of departments. Works in connection with AAB hearings: witness prep, legal advice, representation, drafting findings. Provide litigation support related to AAB matters: preparing/filling writs of administrative mandate to challenge AAB decisions. Provide advisory legal support to ARCC: review/development policies/procedures, contract review, legislative support, CPRA requests, records retention. Expected to complete appraiser training provided by Assessor’s Office. Mix remote/in-person permitted, must be available for in-person AAB hearings Thursdays. Note about three recruitments and reading job description (we kept maybe as part of description). Did we include that note? Not yet. We could include as a sentence in description. It's substantive: "Please note that the County is advertising three recruitments at the Senior Deputy County Counsel, Principal Deputy County Counsel, or Supervising Deputy County Counsel level. The candidate should apply for the position that best reflects the candidate’s level of experience. Please read the Senior Deputy County Counsel job description for additional information." This is more about application but still part of posting. Might be considered application instruction? It's about which level to apply. Might be considered not essential but still substantive. However instruction says remove application instructions. This is somewhat instructional. Safer to drop it? The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." This is application instruction (telling candidate which level to apply). So we should remove it. Good.
Thus description excludes that.
Now check if any other substantive info: "Ideal Candidate" we captured as Skills.
"Qualifications" we captured.
"Notes" about attachments removed.
"Also Required" we captured as Requirements.
Now ensure we didn't miss any details like "The attorney will be expected to complete appraiser training, which will be provided by the Assessor’s Office." included in Responsibilities.
Now check for duplication: We have description includes many duties; Responsibilities also list duties may duplicate. To avoid duplication, maybe we should not duplicate. The instruction:
. We need to decide which content is list vs prose. About the role: Could be prose paragraphs. We'll put as
maybe multiple
elements. Responsibilities: Could be list of duties: independent handling cases, providing legal advice, representing in litigation, providing advice to departments, working with AAB hearings, preparing writs, advisory legal support to ARCC, completing appraiser training, availability for in-person hearings Thursdays, mix remote/in-person. We'll list. Requirements: list: ability to arrange transportation for field travel, reputation for honesty and trustworthiness, misdemeanor/felony convictions may be disqualifying, subject to background investigation. Qualifications: list: Active membership in good standing with State Bar of California; three (3) years of professional post-bar civil legal experience as an attorney handling civil law matters in public or private sector. Skills: list: experience providing legal advice regarding assessment practices and California Revenue and Taxation Code; representing clients in writs of administrative mandate and refund actions; analytical thinker able to identify and articulate critical issues; excellent legal research and writing skills; strong courtroom presence; ability to work collaboratively and professionally with other attorneys and support staff. Pay:
with salary range. Schedule:
describing remote/in-person mix and Thursday hearings. Now we need to ensure we preserve all substantive information. Did we miss any? Let's verify. From description we included: Office of County Counsel full-service law office, handling civil law needs, proactive participation in government decision making, active trial litigation program. Senior Deputy County Counsel will independently handle cases and assignments moderately difficult impacting County etc. Provides legal advice to County officials on finance/governance, advocates representing them in civil litigation state/federal courts and administrative tribunals. Attorney in dedicated section providing broad range legal advice and litigation support to departments: list of departments. Works in connection with AAB hearings: witness prep, legal advice, representation, drafting findings. Provide litigation support related to AAB matters: preparing/filling writs of administrative mandate to challenge AAB decisions. Provide advisory legal support to ARCC: review/development policies/procedures, contract review, legislative support, CPRA requests, records retention. Expected to complete appraiser training provided by Assessor’s Office. Mix remote/in-person permitted, must be available for in-person AAB hearings Thursdays. Note about three recruitments and reading job description (we kept maybe as part of description). Did we include that note? Not yet. We could include as a sentence in description. It's substantive: "Please note that the County is advertising three recruitments at the Senior Deputy County Counsel, Principal Deputy County Counsel, or Supervising Deputy County Counsel level. The candidate should apply for the position that best reflects the candidate’s level of experience. Please read the Senior Deputy County Counsel job description for additional information." This is more about application but still part of posting. Might be considered application instruction? It's about which level to apply. Might be considered not essential but still substantive. However instruction says remove application instructions. This is somewhat instructional. Safer to drop it? The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." This is application instruction (telling candidate which level to apply). So we should remove it. Good. Thus description excludes that. Now check if any other substantive info: "Ideal Candidate" we captured as Skills. "Qualifications" we captured. "Notes" about attachments removed. "Also Required" we captured as Requirements. Now ensure we didn't miss any details like "The attorney will be expected to complete appraiser training, which will be provided by the Assessor’s Office." included in Responsibilities. Now check for duplication: We have description includes many duties; Responsibilities also list duties may duplicate. To avoid duplication, maybe we should not duplicate. The instruction: