Closing Date: 20th October, 2026
Description:
About the Position:Career Opportunity
The city of Las Vegas invites applications for Deputy City Attorney III/IV. This position provides legal counsel, representation, advice and interpretation for all civil concerns for assigned departments, depending on assignment; provides legal advice and counsel to anticipate, avoid or resolve potential or pending legal issues, disputes and litigation; provides highly responsible and complex administrative support to the assigned Deputy City Attorney V, Assistant City Attorney and the City Attorney.
This Deputy City Attorney III/IV will be assigned to the Civil Litigation Division of the Las Vegas City Attorney's Office, and provides legal counsel, representation, and advice in highly responsible and complex matters.
The ideal candidate should have significant legal experience in all aspects of civil litigation, including discovery; motion practice and trials, and governmental immunities. This position requires independent handling of active and complex litigation matters. Municipal or government law experience is preferred but not required. The ideal candidate should also have the ability to research legal issues; clear and effective oral and written communication skills, and may require representation of various City Departments, Boards and Commissions and practice before administrative agencies and courts in contested matters.
Distinguishing Characteristics
This series contains levels from entry to first line supervisor. Each is distinguished by the level of complexity of assigned duties, the judgment and initiative required for the assigned duties; the expertise, accomplishment or specialization of a specific area of law; the level of supervision received; and the degree of knowledge required to satisfactorily carry out the assigned duties. Although flexibly staffed, some positions may not flex to the higher level. The Deputy City Attorney V is not flexibly staffed, and is the first line supervisory level.
Supervision Received and Exercised
Deputy City Attorney III: Receives direction from the City Attorney, Assistant City Attorney and assigned Deputy City Attorney V, if applicable.
May exercise technical supervision over professional staff. Depending on assignment, acts as a lead worker, exercising functional or technical supervision, including scheduling and assigning tasks, providing guidance, ensuring work is completed according to proper procedure, monitoring work progress, and reviewing results.
Deputy City Attorney IV: Receives direction from the City Attorney, Assistant City Attorney and assigned Deputy City Attorney V.
Selection Process:
The selection process will include a review of all applications to identify the most qualified candidates, who will be invited to participate in a hiring interview. Any individual offered employment must successfully complete a pre-employment drug test and all required background checks for the position.
Example of Duties:
Essential Functions:
When Assigned to the Civil Division:
When Assigned to the Criminal Division:
Marginal functions:
Minimum Requirements:
Deputy City Attorney III
Experience:
A minimum of three years of responsible experience as a practicing attorney, including civil litigation experience or prosecutorial experience, depending on assignment available.
Training:
A Juris doctorate from an accredited law school.
License or Certificate:
Membership in the State Bar of Nevada, and maintenance thereafter.
License to practice before the District Court, Federal District Court of Nevada and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the date of application, and maintenance thereafter depending on assignment.
Deputy City Attorney IV
Experience:
A minimum of four years of responsible experience as a practicing attorney, including prosecutorial experience or applicable specialized civil litigation experience, depending on assignment available.
Training:
A Juris doctorate from an accredited law school.
License or Certificate:
Membership in the State Bar of Nevada, and maintenance thereafter.
License to practice before the District Court, Federal District Court of Nevada and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the date of application, and maintenance thereafter depending on assignment.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Knowledge of:
Skills in:
The city of Las Vegas invites applications for Deputy City Attorney III/IV. This position provides legal counsel, representation, advice and interpretation for all civil concerns for assigned departments, depending on assignment; provides legal advice and counsel to anticipate, avoid or resolve potential or pending legal issues, disputes and litigation; provides highly responsible and complex administrative support to the assigned Deputy City Attorney V, Assistant City Attorney and the City Attorney.
This Deputy City Attorney III/IV will be assigned to the Civil Litigation Division of the Las Vegas City Attorney's Office, and provides legal counsel, representation, and advice in highly responsible and complex matters.
The ideal candidate should have significant legal experience in all aspects of civil litigation, including discovery; motion practice and trials, and governmental immunities. This position requires independent handling of active and complex litigation matters. Municipal or government law experience is preferred but not required. The ideal candidate should also have the ability to research legal issues; clear and effective oral and written communication skills, and may require representation of various City Departments, Boards and Commissions and practice before administrative agencies and courts in contested matters.
Distinguishing Characteristics
This series contains levels from entry to first line supervisor. Each is distinguished by the level of complexity of assigned duties, the judgment and initiative required for the assigned duties; the expertise, accomplishment or specialization of a specific area of law; the level of supervision received; and the degree of knowledge required to satisfactorily carry out the assigned duties. Although flexibly staffed, some positions may not flex to the higher level. The Deputy City Attorney V is not flexibly staffed, and is the first line supervisory level.
Supervision Received and Exercised
Deputy City Attorney III: Receives direction from the City Attorney, Assistant City Attorney and assigned Deputy City Attorney V, if applicable.
May exercise technical supervision over professional staff. Depending on assignment, acts as a lead worker, exercising functional or technical supervision, including scheduling and assigning tasks, providing guidance, ensuring work is completed according to proper procedure, monitoring work progress, and reviewing results.
Deputy City Attorney IV: Receives direction from the City Attorney, Assistant City Attorney and assigned Deputy City Attorney V.
Selection Process:
The selection process will include a review of all applications to identify the most qualified candidates, who will be invited to participate in a hiring interview. Any individual offered employment must successfully complete a pre-employment drug test and all required background checks for the position.
Example of Duties:
Essential Functions:
- Researches legal questions and evaluates the impact on city policies and procedures.
- Appears in court and administrative proceedings to represent the city's interest as required.
- Prosecutes actions in state and municipal court to abate public nuisances and collection of damages or debts regarding city property.
- Represents the city at all public hearings in which the city is a party.
- Conducts parking trials and appeals; initiates civil actions and collections of parking penalties and fines; accounts for all parking revenue which is City Attorney-generated.
- Coordinates office activities with those of other departments, outside agencies and organizations; provides staff assistance to the City Attorney; prepares and presents staff reports and other necessary correspondence.
- Reviews legal periodicals to keep abreast of current legal issues and cases; attends seminars to keep abreast of new laws and court decisions.
- Responds to citizen inquiries regarding matters related to assigned duties.
- Prosecutes for civil remedies to enforce city ordinances, abate public nuisances and recover for damages to city property; participates in negotiations of real estate transactions on behalf of the Redevelopment Agency; condemns property for public purpose and other matters.
- Defends the city in the state and federal courts against liability claims for personal injury and death stemming from alleged torts and civil rights violations.
- Assists with various negotiations, preparations and enforcement.
- Represents the City of Las Vegas in litigating various criminal and traffic cases; obtains, prepares and presents courtroom evidence, investigates crime scenes, reviews arrest reports and examines evidence to decide whether or what to charge in cases; summons witnesses and negotiates pleas.
- Represents the city at video or night court and all court hearings or proceedings in which the city is named as a plaintiff.
- May lead, plan and assign the work of staff. Ensures employees adhere to established work methods, techniques and schedules, and comply with applicable legal, city and department policies, procedures, standards and specifications; reviews needs with appropriate management staff; allocates resources accordingly; assists with providing training to division staff; provides guidance as a technical expert in a specialized area.
Marginal functions:
- Participates on a variety of boards and commissions; attends and participates in professional groups and committees.
- Assists in maintaining an orderly, adequately stocked and updated law library.
- Performs related duties and responsibilities as required.
Minimum Requirements:
Deputy City Attorney III
Experience:
A minimum of three years of responsible experience as a practicing attorney, including civil litigation experience or prosecutorial experience, depending on assignment available.
Training:
A Juris doctorate from an accredited law school.
License or Certificate:
Membership in the State Bar of Nevada, and maintenance thereafter.
License to practice before the District Court, Federal District Court of Nevada and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the date of application, and maintenance thereafter depending on assignment.
Deputy City Attorney IV
Experience:
A minimum of four years of responsible experience as a practicing attorney, including prosecutorial experience or applicable specialized civil litigation experience, depending on assignment available.
Training:
A Juris doctorate from an accredited law school.
License or Certificate:
Membership in the State Bar of Nevada, and maintenance thereafter.
License to practice before the District Court, Federal District Court of Nevada and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the date of application, and maintenance thereafter depending on assignment.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Knowledge of:
- Latest and complex principles and practices of public law.
- Methods of pubic agency administration.
- Legal principles, practices and procedures of civil, criminal, constitutional or administrative law, depending on assignment.
- Common law of the state of Nevada, particulrly in the area of assignment.
- Advanced methods and techniques of legal research, trial preparation, trial procedure and trial presentation.
- Pertinent federal, state and local laws, codes and regulations and their past applications.
- The organization, duties, powers, authority, limitations, policies and procedures of both the City Attorney's Office in general and the assigned division in particular.
- Robert's Rules of Parliamentary Procedure, for assignment to the civil division.
- Advanced trial techniques and advanced legal writing skills.
- Identity and mechanics of available sentencing alternatives, for assignment to the criminal division.
- Advanced techniques of negotiation and their appropriate use.
- Principles of lead supervision, depending on assignment.
Skills in:
- Properly interpreting and making decisions in accordance with laws, regulations and policies.
- Organizing, interpreting and applying complex legal principles and specialized knowledge of legal issues.
- Proficiently, innovatively and aggressively applying legal knowledge and skills in court.
- Achieving resolutions and decisions in accordance with the proper interpretation of laws, regulations and policies.
- Gaining cooperation through discussion and persuasion.
- Preparing clear, concise, sound and complex legal position papers, briefs, memoranda and opinions.
- Organizing, interpreting an
