Description:
Incumbents in this position are responsible for providing legal representation and counsel in the City Counselor's Office Problem Properties Section.Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Performs legal research including electronic research.
- Educates community residents and business owners on how to report nuisance activity and code violations.
- Acts as liaison between property owners and Problem Properties Taskforce after Cease-and-Desist Notice issues.
- Reads, reviews and prepares legal documents of all types and provides legal advice in connection therewith.
- Attends and appears before administrative agencies, state, and federal courts.
- Prepares for hearings, trials and appearances before the above mentioned bodies. Such preparation includes, but is not limited to drafting briefs, motions, legal memoranda and pleadings; attending, taking, and defending depositions, drafting and responding to discovery; and interviewing clients and other witnesses.
- Responds and provides legal advice in a timely and competent manner in response to legal inquiries received from City departments/divisions, agencies, Appointing Authorities, employees or officials.
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.
Qualifications:
Graduation from a school of law approved by the American Bar Association; current membership in the Missouri Bar in good standing or licensure in another state with eligibility for reciprocity in Missouri; plus one year of legal practice with attention to problem property and land use.
Licensure: Documentation of license to practice law must be submitted with the Employment Application or upon request.
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.
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.