Description:
Overview:Independently performs specialized legal or administrative work or performs complex technical legal functions with related advisory responsibilities of a specialized nature; conducts hearings, investigations and research activities to determine facts, prepares administrative orders or decisions, or drafts legislative bills and resolutions; processes complex legal documents or papers.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plans and conducts extensive and complex legal research or management studies and prepares administrative reports.
- Confers with the general public, witnesses, other attorneys, legislators, board and commission members, employers on difficult problems of statutory interpretations and compliance.
- Drafts proposed bills, amendments, resolutions, procedures, rules and regulations.
- Revises, codifies and clarifies current legislation by preparing, editing, and advising on digests, reports and opinions.
- Participates in the administrative hearings process; prepares pleadings and takes depositions.
- Confers and advises on legal or administrative problems within the department.
- Reviews and reports on legal or administrative processes including petitions, notices and orders in litigation.
- May conduct negotiations with claimants, violators and interested parties with authority to settle claims.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned.
Specific Skills:
- Requires extensive knowledge of the common law and of the State and Federal laws relating to administrative and regulatory functions.
- Requires extensive knowledge of judicial and quasi-judicial procedure and of the rules of evidence, hearings, and trial procedures.
- Requires working knowledge of management practices and procedures.
- Requires ability to maintain satisfactory working relationships with superiors, other attorneys, employees and the public.
- Requires ability to present material in clear and logical form for oral or written presentation, as briefs, orders, reports or decisions.
- Requires ability to exercise sound judgement in appraising and evaluating problems of a procedural nature.
- Requires willingness to travel and possession of a valid Illinois driver's license as required by individual positions within the class.
Education and Work Experience:
Requires the possession of a license to practice law in Illinois AND one (1) year of professional experience in the practice of law.