Description:

Description:
Salary: $47, 034

Position Grade: 15GT

Department: City Counselor's Office

Job Type: Full-Time

Location: Downtown - St. Louis, MO

Examination Number: EX1644

Incumbents in this position handle entry-level legal work under direct supervision in one of the Specialized Units in the City Counselor's Office. The Office represents the City in civil legal matters, litigation, and transactions. Attorney positions are housed in the Office's Litigation Unit, Affirmative Litigation Section of the Litigation Unit, Contracts & Special Projects Unit, Airport Unit, Police Unit, Development Unit, Problem Properties Unit, and Municipal Prosecution Unit.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Performs entry-level legal research and writing.
Provides legal advice and representation on a wide variety of legal matters involving municipal law to boards, commissions, officials, departments, and employees under direct supervision of a Missouri licensed attorney.
Either handles civil litigation at the trial and appellate levels in both state court and federal court under direct supervision or; alternatively, prepares and reviews contracts, leases, ordinances, resolutions, policies, and other transactional, legislative, and administrative documents under direct supervision under direct supervision of a Missouri licensed attorney.
Either prepares written discovery, takes and defends depositions, and argues motions under direct supervision or; alternatively, coordinates, prepares for, and attends public meetings under direct supervision under direct supervision of a Missouri licensed attorney.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid to upper-level data analysis including the ability to coordinate, strategize, systematize and correlate, using discretion in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations within an organizational framework. Requires the ability to implement decisions based on such data, and overseeing the execution of these decisions.
Human Interaction: Requires the ability to apply principles of negotiation within the context of legal guidelines.
Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a computer, calculator, copy and fax machines, and materials used in performing essential functions.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize reference, descriptive, consulting, design and advisory data and information such as legal briefs and opinions, statutes and ordinances, contracts and legal research material.
Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; ability to calculate percentages and decimals and may use basic algebra.
Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or synthesis functions involving planning and directing of interrelated activities or multiple departments. Ability to deal with several concrete and abstract variables in working out approaches to major problems.
Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.
Environmental Factors: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.
Physical Requirements: Tasks require the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work. Tasks may involve extended periods of visual concentration at a keyboard or workstation.
Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify individual characteristics of colors, shapes, and sounds, associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks.

Licensures and Certificates:
Must be eligible to be licensed as an attorney by the State of Missouri by the completion of the working test period as a condition of employment.

Qualifications:
Applicant must be a graduate from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association and eligible to be licensed as an attorney by the State of Missouri by the completion of the working test period as a condition of their employment.

Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail

Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request
When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Veterans Preference Points
To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.

City Residence Preference Points
City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.

Accommodations:
If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.