Place No: 125-589
Wage Vary: Commensurate with Expertise
Closing Date: February 2, 2023
Standing: Full-Time with State Profit Bundle
Recruitment: Inside/Exterior
Location: Bismarck, ND
Deciding on Supervisor: Claire Ness, Chief Deputy Lawyer Normal
Abstract of Work
The Solicitor Normal oversees civil and prison appeals involving the State and advises the Lawyer Normal and Chief Deputy Lawyer Normal on whether or not the State ought to enchantment a case to the North Dakota Supreme Courtroom, United States Supreme Courtroom, or the Eight Circuit Courtroom of Enchantment. The Solicitor Normal additionally manages the Civil Litigation Division of the Lawyer Normal’s Workplace. In these roles, the Solicitor Normal:
• Prepares or oversees the preparation of petitions, briefs, and different paperwork filed in courts;
• Takes a lead position within the briefing and argument of choose circumstances, together with essentially the most delicate and complicated circumstances;
• Advises the workplace management on civil litigation and appellate issues;
• Is chargeable for the coaching and supervision of civil litigation attorneys;
• Collaborates with different division administrators;
• Carries out different duties as wanted.
The Solicitor Normal will need to have:
• Exemplary analytical, advocacy, and communication expertise;
• Wonderful, confirmed management capabilities;
• Time administration and group expertise;
• Collegial interpersonal expertise;
• Impeccable authorized ethics;
• Not less than 5 years of litigation expertise, together with expertise presenting oral arguments within the North Dakota Supreme Courtroom, the best courtroom of one other state, america Courts of Appeals, or america Supreme Courtroom.
• Energetic membership within the North Dakota bar is required inside 6 months of rent.
• Expertise representing authorities entities and experience in constitutional regulation are most popular.
Along with the month-to-month wage, this place consists of totally paid medical insurance for worker and household, the choice to take part in employee-paid dental and imaginative and prescient for worker and household, participation within the state NDPERS outlined contribution retirement plan in addition to the choice to take part within the 457 deferred compensation plan, the choice to contribute to a medical spending account, and incomes annual and sick depart.
Minimal {Qualifications}
1. Licensed to observe regulation in North Dakota, or the expectation of imminent admission to the North Dakota Bar (inside 6 months of rent).
2. Excessive moral requirements; clear self-discipline report.
3. Means to keep up a excessive diploma of confidentiality.
4. Wonderful written and verbal communication expertise.
5. Wonderful authorized analysis expertise; capability to successfully use Westlaw or Lexis and different analysis instruments.
6. Interpersonal expertise wanted to work nicely with purchasers, colleagues, and the general public.
7. The judgment, reliability, and willingness to dedicate the time and vitality vital to offer glorious authorized companies to the State of North Dakota.
8. Means, demonstrated in earlier employment expertise or in any other case proven, to determine and preserve efficient, harmonious working relationships with purchasers, colleagues, and supervisors.
9. Wonderful time administration and group expertise.
10. Confirmed capability or potential to do glorious authorized work within the areas of writing, negotiation, and consumer recommendation.
11. Information of state and federal authorities regulation and compliance and talent to translate complicated laws and findings into comprehensible and significant phrases.
12. Means to train impartial judgment {and professional} discretion within the identification, administration, and determination of authorized issues related to a governing physique.
13. Expertise in employment regulation, contract regulation, civil rights, and schooling regulation, together with the Household Academic Rights and Privateness Act, most popular.
14. Profitable completion of the interview course of, reference checks, and commonplace background and prison report checks to find out information, expertise, and skills to carry out assistant lawyer basic duties.
Software Procedures
Candidates are screened primarily based on {qualifications}, profitable completion of the interview course of and a background and prison investigation. Candidates have to be presently approved to work in america on a full-time foundation. The Workplace of Lawyer Normal doesn’t present sponsorships.
Software package deal have to be acquired by 11:59 PM on the deadline listed on the opening.
TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE AT: www.nd.gov/careers
Paperwork to be submitted:
• Resume
• Cowl letter with a abstract that clearly explains how the applicant’s work expertise is said to the abstract of labor and minimal/most popular {qualifications}
• 3 Skilled References
• Faculty Transcripts (copies or unofficial variations are acceptable for the preliminary software course of however when the highest candidate is given a conditional employment provide, they’re required to current official transcripts)
Anybody needing help or lodging throughout any a part of the appliance or interview course of please contact Ashley, Workplace of Lawyer Normal: E-mail: aeisenbeis@nd.gov; telephone: (701) 328-1256 or TTY: 1-800-366-6888.
• Study extra about Workplace of Lawyer Normal at: https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/
• Study extra about Employment Advantages at: https://www.nd.gov/omb/public/careers/team-nd-benefits
• Go to North Dakota State authorities: http://www.nd.gov
To be taught extra about residing in North Dakota, go to https://findthegoodlife.com
Equal Employment Alternative
The State of North Dakota and this hiring company don’t discriminate on the premise of race, shade, nationwide origin, intercourse (together with sexual orientation and gender identification), genetics, faith, age or incapacity in employment or the provisions of companies and complies with the provisions of the North Dakota Human Rights Act.
As an employer, the State of North Dakota prohibits smoking in every single place of state employment in accordance with N.D.C.C. § 23-12-10.
