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Government
Legal Staff
Min 5 yrs required
Senior Legal Analyst The candidate will independently performs a broad range of litigation support and case management tasks for the legal unit. Will be critical members of the legal team and provide high level assistance to attorneys, regularly and independently performing the full range of the most responsible, varied and complex analytical paralegal duties, providing consultative services to management and others, and communicating with management and other internal and external stakeholders. Also perform a various range of duties including to: analyze and summarize depositions, prepare and answer interrogatories, draft procedural motions and other routine briefs, perform legal research and analysis, draft research memos, and perform case and project management. Will work under the supervision of the Assistant Chief Counsel and will need to establish and maintain effective working relationships with State Fund’s attorneys, managers employees, and representatives, State Fund’s retained experts, and past and present policyholders (as assignments require), and other business partners and stakeholders. Under direction, independently provides paralegal and legal analytical support to an attorney in the most complex area of law; and performs other related duties. Under direction of an attorney who shall accept full responsibility for the tasks performed, reviews and analyzes client agency requests for legal services, develops strategies and proposals to rectify problem areas; analyzes statutory and regulatory authority, prepares analyses of legislation and regulations, drafts legislation and regulation proposals for client agencies, monitors progress of legislation and regulations; designs and conducts investigations, identifies issues of concern for investigations, interviews witnesses, gathers documentation, drafts declarations, makes recommendations for search warrants; researches and analyzes statutory and case law authority relating to specific issues and makes recommendations concerning handling of the issues; drafts various pleadings on the most complex issues; summarizes and categorizes deposition transcripts, creates manual and computerized systems for managing discovery documents, analyzes and summarizes trial evidence, assists attorney in trial; identifies, contracts and screens expert witnesses, assists attorney in preparing expert witnesses for depositions and trial testimony, analyzes and summarizes expert witness statements; attends settlement negotiations and drafts settlement agreements; creates systems for gathering and tracking litigation information; develops paralegal training material and trains other paralegals; serves as consultant to attorneys and others; may serve is needed a lead capacity over other paralegals. Independently gathers and analyzes documents and information for case management. Independently gathers and analyzes documents and information for case development, including communicating with and obtaining information from employers, witnesses, OSHA, law enforcement, and internal and external investigators and other sources, including insurance carriers and outside counsel. Obtains information from EAMS, SFO, CARE, TeamConnect, WCIRB and other Court and regulatory agency sources to assist with case management and strategy. Under the general direction of an attorney, prepares correspondence and pleadings, and all court mandated documents. Assists in civil and administrative trial preparation.Subpoenas and schedules witnesses for trial preparation and notifies witnesses of trial logistics. Completes special projects and assignments, as directed by the Legal Management. Ensures case files are kept current and maintained in an orderly fashion. Completes all mandatory training. Completes all required administrative documentation promptly.
Qualification and Experience
The candidate should have 2 years of experience in the California state service performing the duties of Legal Analyst Or 4 years of progressively responsible paralegal experience performing duties in one or a combination of the following specialty areas: Litigation and trial preparation, administrative law and procedures, criminal law and procedures, corporate and business law, medical malpractice, estate and tax law, environmental and land use law, antitrust, labor and consumer law. (Experience in California state service applied toward this requirement must include 1 year performing the duties of Legal Analyst.) Should have knowledge of: Basic legal concepts, terminology, principles and procedures; use of legal reference materials; role of a paralegal staff in a legal office. Must have ability to: Reason logically; analyze situations accurately and recommend an effective course of action; write effectively; prepare reports and summary sheets which set forth a statement of the facts, applications of relevant law and conclusions; read and understand statutes, court decisions, legal documents and similar material; prepare drafts of pleadings; draft litigation discovery documents, such as interrogatories and motions; work cooperatively with attorneys, clerical staff, technical staff and the general public. Demonstrated ability to act independently, to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, and to assume increased responsibility. Deadline: 6/25/2021.
Ref JC-255481
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