Closing Date: 15th October, 2025

Description:

Job Description and Duties:
Are you passionate about making a significant impact in a dynamic, collaborative environment, driving positive change within your organization?

State Fund's Corporate Legal Department plays a pivotal role in advancing State Fund's mission, providing expert legal advice, representation, and training across diverse areas such as insurance, business, government, and regulatory laws. Our Corporate Legal Department is also at the forefront of representing State Fund in complex administrative and civil disputes.

We are currently in search of an experienced transactional attorney with a robust background in corporate, insurance, and California state governmental laws. Working under the guidance of an Assistant Chief Counsel, you will:

Navigate complex and sensitive corporate advice and transactions in areas such as state government, procurement, cloud software licensing, artificial intelligence, privacy, intellectual property, banking and investments, and insurance on behalf of State Fund.
Handle advisory matters, contract drafting, review and negotiation, regulatory affairs integral to State Fund's business, contribute to task forces and projects, and conduct legal research.
Provide counsel to executives, managers, and other internal business partners.
Assume the lead role on matters and mentor other attorneys and legal staff, contributing to a collaborative legal environment.

Position can be filled in: Sacramento, San Francisco, Alameda, Los Angeles, or Orange county.
You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement. (https://www.calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/FileDownload.aspx?aid=29102309&name=AttorneyIV_dutystatement.pdf)

Working Conditions:
To be considered, you must provide a fully completed STD 678 state application, resume, and statement of qualifications via CalCareers. Resumes submitted in lieu of the STD 678 may not be accepted. Completed STD 678 must include full duties performed, start and end dates, and hours worked per week for each position held.

Selected candidate(s) hired may be required to attend in-person Onboarding at our Vacaville office with expenses for attendance paid by State Fund.

Candidates must reside in California to be eligible for this appointment.

Special Requirements:
The position(s) require(s) a Background Investigation be cleared prior to being hired.

Desirable Qualifications:
In addition to evaluating each candidate's relative ability, as demonstrated by quality and breadth of experience, the following factors will provide the basis for competitively evaluating each candidate:

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills and abilities, focusing on the most complex and sensitive legal matters:
Proven experience in high impact business environment.
Effective collaboration in a remote work setting.
Exceptional legal skills for the drafting, review, and negotiation of contracts, and the writing of executive level memoranda.
Management of high political, reputational, and media scenarios.
Proficiency in providing training to internal stakeholders.
Navigate transactions with high to the highest potential dollar amounts.
Handle sophisticated legal matters with specialized opposing counsel.
Lead project-type initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.
Demonstrate expertise in navigating industry-standard and novel legal issues within regulatory law and business transactions.
Contribute to precedent-setting initiatives with high organizational impact.
Address potential regulatory exposure and enforcement proceedings.
Oversee potential exposure related to business practices, advising on major adjustments to these practices and processes.
Conduct comprehensive legal analyses of legislative materials, providing strategic guidance.