Staff Attorney 15/16 – Corrections Division – Attorney General’s Office

About the Role

As a staff or senior level attorney, handles complex legal assignments and cases involving employment related litigation for MDOC, MDHHS and other client agencies, constitutional litigation, and other assigned issues and claims, under the general supervision of the Division Chief, the First Assistant, or Section Head.

Responsibilities

• Drafts formal and informal legal opinions
• Provides day-to-day legal representation to various state agencies, boards, commissions, officers and employees including representation in state and federal administrative proceedings and courts
• Provides general legal advice to the client agency in other non-litigation matters
• Handles a larger and more complex caseload with matters that may include multiple legal/factual issues, novel interpretation of state or federal statutes, unique case law, constitutional challenges, involving significant fiscal consequences and sophisticated burdens of proof
• Handles legal assignments and cases including federal and state litigation, constitutional litigation, and other assigned issues and claims
• Develops and implements strategies pertaining to litigation
• Conducts extensive discovery and other pretrial practice
• Conducts pretrial motion practice
• Develops trial strategies
• Tries jury and non-jury trials
• Conducts post-trial motion practice
• Prepares and responds to appeals
• Presents oral arguments before state and federal courts of appeal

Qualifications

Education: Possession of a Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited school of law.

Experience:

• Attorney-Staff P15: No specific type or amount is required.
• Attorney-Senior 16: Four years of post-bar admission legal experience.

Licenses and Certifications: Membership in good standing in the Michigan State Bar.