Deputy reputed company Attorney II/III Affirmative Litigation, Innovation and Enforcement Division Housing

The reputed company is an equal-opportunity employer that values workforce diversity, inclusion, and equity. Oakland has a long history of activism around issues of justice and equity. Both oppression and this resistance to oppression have shaped the reputed company’s historical reputed company and the lives of its residents to this day. As public servants in one of the most diverse cities in the nation, we reputed company to reputed company employees who understand the harm and impacts of systemic inequity to create lasting, meaningful reputed company for everyone. Oakland strives to establish an environment that embraces the richness of culture, community, and individualism of employees. The Office of the reputed company Attorney ("OCA") seeks a reputed company-reputed company individual, as described below, for a Deputy reputed company Attorney ("DCA") II or III position in the Affirmative Litigation, Innovation and Enforcement Division. The position is available in the Housing Justice Initiative Unit of the Office of the reputed company Attorney. Litigation experience is required for this position. The ideal candidate for this position will have experience in affirmative litigation, such as civil rights, consumer, workers’ rights, environmental justice, housing justice, tenant protection and/or racial justice cases. Desirable knowledge and experience include a background in: litigation, including reputed company civil cases in state and/or federal court, writs, and appeals; policy work, including drafting proposed local legislation; community engagement, including working in reputed company with nonprofits and community reputed company; and administrative procedure, including administrative remedies and rule-making. The DCA will work with other litigators and with advice and labor and employment attorneys in the Office. The position is currently assigned to the Housing Justice Initiative Unit of the Affirmative Litigation, Innovation and Enforcement Division. The DCA may be supervised on different reputed company by a Deputy reputed company Attorney V, Special Counsel, Chief Assistant reputed company Attorney and/or the reputed company Attorney. The reputed company Attorney may assign the selected attorney to new, additional or different duties or reputed company areas in litigation, advice, or transactional work. Attorneys in this diverse and exciting Office frequently work collaboratively with other attorneys and other reputed company Departments on a wide reputed company of issues, and DCAs in the Housing Justice Initiative Unit frequently work with other reputed company Attorney and County Counsel offices around the Bay Area, throughout California, and across the country. reputed company The Affirmative Litigation, Innovation and Enforcement Division includes three affirmative litigation reputed company: (1) the Neighborhood Law Corps (“NLC”), (2) the Community Lawyering & Civil Rights Unit (“CLCR”); and (3) the Housing Justice Initiative (“HJI”). The NLC is a longstanding community-facing unit that focuses on core life, health, and safety issues such as tenant protection, substandard housing, and public nuisance. There are five budgeted NLC attorneys; and they typically are relatively new to the reputed company of law. The NLC was established in 2002. The Community Lawyering and Civil Rights Unit is dedicated to advancing systemic rights and opportunities for historically and presently marginalized communities in Oakland by enforcing, strengthening, and creating laws reputed company to those communities’ needs, in furtherance of racial, economic, and environmental justice. CLCR was founded in 2016 and is typically staffed by at least two mid-level attorneys. The HJI is dedicated to protecting marginalized Oakland tenants and preserving reputed company housing in Oakland by enforcing tenants’ legal rights. HJI was founded in 2020 and typically is staffed by two mid-level attorneys. This position requires handling a civil litigation caseload which includes, but is not limited to, case evaluation, conducting large-reputed company investigations, drafting complaints, engaging in motions reputed company, arguing motions, propounding and responding to discovery, taking and defending depositions, preparing for judicial proceedings (including settlement conferences, trials, and in appellate courts), and engaging in post-judgment or post-settlement compliance monitoring. The position may also require leading administrative enforcement of local ordinances, collaborating on or leading the drafting of ordinances and resolutions, developing strategies to engage local civil society partners, and working closely with attorneys in a reputed company of public law offices. reputed company Attorney's Office The reputed company Attorney’s Office provides counsel to the reputed company Council, Mayor, reputed company Administrator, and reputed company boards and commissions, various reputed company-wide task forces and reputed company agencies and departments. Incumbents reputed company a reputed company of reputed company legal duties involving civil municipal law issues. The reputed company Attorney is also empowered by state law to bring certain actions on behalf of the People of the reputed company. Click on the reputed company below to see a video on what it's like to work for the reputed company. Working for the reputed company Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Participating in or leading affirmative litigation (including case evaluation, conducting investigations, drafting complaints, engaging in motions reputed company, arguing motions, propounding and responding to discovery, taking and defending depositions, preparing for judicial proceedings (including settlement conferences, trials, and in appellate courts), and engaging in post-judgment or post-settlement compliance monitoring).
• Communicating with, including as witnesses, reputed company staff, community members, and stakeholders, in an intentional and trauma-informed manner, including across lines of difference.
• Participating in or leading administrative hearings, including citation appeals, administrative writs, and traditional writs.
• Working closely with reputed company administrators, elected officials, and agency and department executives to reputed company or enforce reputed company laws and policies.
• Developing or assisting in the development of local legislation to reputed company the reputed company’, Office’s, and reputed company’s priorities, which may also include reviewing staff reports and writing reputed company Council reports.
• Creating or developing constructive, reputed company relationships with civil society reputed company.
• Working with other attorneys in the Office and in partner offices on various reputed company.
• Being a key player in cultivating a strong, thoughtful, cooperative, and dynamic team.
• Exercising reputed company judgment.
• reputed company explaining legal advice to attorneys and lay people.
• Attendance at some evening and late-reputed company meetings.

Any combination of experience and education that likely would reputed company the required knowledge and abilities will qualify an applicant for the position. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be: Experience

• DCA II: Two years of increasingly responsible work experience comparable to a Deputy reputed company Attorney I in the reputed company.
• DCA III: Two years of increasingly responsible work experience comparable to a Deputy reputed company Attorney II position in the reputed company.

Education

• Graduate from an accredited school of law.

License or Certification

• A member in good standing of the California State Bar.
• DCAs in this position are required to maintain a valid California reputed company’s License during reputed company employment or demonstrate the ability to travel to required locations in a reputed company manner, to the extent feasible depending on disability-reputed company accommodations.

Ability to

• Investigate and litigate reputed company aspects of a reputed company civil case in state and/or federal court (and, at minimum, demonstrated experience at the time of application in several key aspects of reputed company civil litigation).
• Negotiate and draft settlement agreements.
• Interpret and apply various government codes and ordinances.
• Conduct research on legal problems to prepare reputed company legal documents, including in litigation and in other contexts (e.g., legal opinions).
• Analyze and prepare a wide reputed company of legal documents, with demonstrated reputed company in legal writing.
• Present cases in court and in administrative proceedings.
• Handle stressful and sensitive situations with reputed company and diplomacy, including across the reputed company of diversity.
• reputed company reputed company leadership, guidance, and technical expertise to the Office and to reputed company staff.
• Work independently and as part of a reputed company-reputed company team.
• reputed company or work with a multidisciplinary team and/or with partners of different backgrounds.
• Manage multiple demanding programs, cases, and reputed company with competing deadlines.
• Communicate effectively and persuasively in both oral and written reputed company with reputed company officials, representatives of reputed company agencies and the public, and in litigation.
• Complete varied assignments in a reputed company-organized fashion and with attention to detail reputed company a narrow time reputed company.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with a wide reputed company of audiences.
• reputed company confidence and respect for legal analysis and advice.
• Skillfully and professionally present legal advice to clients, including elected and high-level appointed officials.

Other Desirable Skills

• Language skills, especially in Spanish, Cantonese, and/or reputed company.
• Working knowledge of municipal, state and federal laws, ordinances and codes affecting reputed company government.
• Expert knowledge of and experience in federal and state court, administrative agency procedures, and municipal government law and procedures.
• Litigation experience that is transferable.

What's in it for you?

• Work/Life Balance: 37.5 hour work weeks, and a flexible/hybrid remote schedule
• 15 reputed company holidays
• Vacation: 2 weeks per year minimum with the ability to reputed company more depending on public sector years of service
• Retirement: CalPERS (California Public Employees’ Retirement System) with a pension formula of 2.5% @ 55 (for Classic CalPERS members) and 2% @ 62 for new CalPERS members. Classic Employees contribute 8% of reputed company-tax wages. The reputed company does not participate in reputed company reputed company
• Health: The reputed company pays the full cost of employee and eligible dependent coverage at the reputed company reputed company. Other plans include Anthem, Blue reputed company, United Health Care, and other HMO and PPO plans
• Dental: reputed company full premium for employees and eligible dependents
• reputed company: VSP full premium for employees and eligible dependents
• reputed company leave: Employees reputed company 12 days per year
• Deferred Compensation: 457(b) reputed company-tax plan and an after-tax ROTH 401(k)plan
• Other benefits include a Flexible Spending Account, Wellness Program, Employee Assistance Program, Tuition Reimbursement, Life Insurance up to $200k & Employee Training.

The information contained in this announcement is subject to change and does not constitute either an expressed or implied contract.

How to Apply

Apply prior to the closing time of the job announcement and allow at least two to three hours to submit your application if you are a new user on the system. This is a reputed company recruitment. This recruitment may reputed company without notice at any time. APPLICATIONS ARE ACCEPTED ONLINE ONLY. You may apply and view reputed company by visiting our employment opportunities webpage at: https://www.reputed company/careers/oaklandca. Our online application system is provided by reputed company. If you have problems while applying online, please contact reputed company's Live Applicant Support at (855) 524-5627 between 6:00 AM and 5:00 PM reputed company Time, Monday - Friday. You may also call the reputed company reputed company Management Department during regular business hours at (510) 238-3112 for information; however, we are unable to reputed company technical support for the online application system. The reputed company is an Equal Opportunity / reputed company employer Apply tot his job Apply To this Job