ATTORNEY - 79011466:
- Requisition No: 850654
- Agency: Business and Professional Regulations
- Working Title: ATTORNEY - 79011466
- Pay Plan: SES
- Position Number: 79011466
- Salary: 2, Biweekly
- Posting Closing Date: 04/30/2025
Organization:
- State Personnel System is an E-Verify employer
- Mission: License efficiently. Regulate fairly. Florida counts on DBPR to ensure important matters are handled well.
- Stakeholders include professionals and customers
- Oversees professions and industries
- Under the direction of Secretary Melanie S. Griffin
Job Description:
- Highly responsible position in the Office of the General Counsel
- Enforce chapter 499, Florida Statutes
- Prevent fraud, adulteration, misbranding, or false advertising
- Safeguard public health and promote public welfare
- Administer Florida law in conformity with Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and regulations
- Prosecute administrative cases targeting licensed and unlicensed entities
Responsibilities:
- Perform administrative prosecution for violations
- Analyze violations of statutes or administrative rules
- Recommend appropriate action
- Draft administrative complaints, letters of guidance, dismissal orders, settlement stipulations, consent orders, closing orders, and emergency action documents
- Present recommendations to probable cause panels or agency management
- Identify cases where emergency action may be appropriate
- Prosecute administrative complaints at the Division of Administrative Hearings or before the Department’s designated hearing officer or board
- Conduct other civil and administrative litigation on behalf of the Department
- Prepare pleadings, motions, memoranda, discovery, proposed orders, etc.
- Conduct legal research and participate in settlement negotiations
- Participate in meetings for non-board matters, probable cause panels, final agency action, board/division rule workshops
- Provide legal advice on Department matters
- Prosecute and defend final orders, emergency suspension orders, declaratory judgments, and rule waiver and variance decisions
- Respond to or review responses to public records requests
- Prepare correspondence applicable to particular cases or complaints
- Perform other duties as directed by supervisor or the Office of the General Counsel
- Assist other units as needed
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Skill in drafting legal documents
- Skill in managing multiple complex cases
- Ability to prioritize work
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment
- Ability to communicate effectively
- Ability to conduct legal research
- Ability to make oral presentations in court and in large groups
- Ability to plan, organize, and coordinate work assignments
- Ability to utilize problem-solving techniques
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to recognize and act on emerging issues and shifting priorities
- Ability to travel
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association
- Current member of The Florida Bar or pass the Florida Bar exam within one year of appointment
- Must have a valid driver's license
Preferred:
- Please meet minimum requirements
Benefits:
- Competitive employee benefits package
- State of Florida retirement package
- Nine annual paid holidays and one personal holiday
- 176 hours of paid annual leave annually
- 104 hours of paid sick leave annually
- Health insurance coverage
- $25,000 life insurance policy
- Additional supplemental insurance policies available
- Tax deferred medical and childcare reimbursement accounts
- Tuition waiver program
Applicant Note:
- Selected candidate may be required to place current license in inactive status
- Security background check, physician assessment, drug screening, and participation in direct deposit required
- Applicants must apply through People First system by closing date
- Candidates requiring reasonable accommodation must contact DBPR Human Resources
- Male applicants born on or after October 1, 1962, must be registered with the Selective Services System
- Retirees of the Florida Retirement System must check with FRS on how current benefits will be affected if re-employed with the State of Florida
- Only . citizens and lawfully authorized alien workers will be hired
- Agency participates in E-Verify System
- Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer
- Candidates requiring reasonable accommodation must notify agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center
- Drug-Free workplace, subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing.
Salary:
- 2, Biweekly
Job Title:
- ATTORNEY - 79011466
Experience:
- Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association
- Current member of The Florida Bar or pass the Florida Bar exam within one year of appointment
- Must have a valid driver's license
