Description:
Description and FunctionsOpen Until Filled
General Description:
Lead at the highest level of state practice—without giving up your life outside the job.
If you are a seasoned attorney feeling burnt out by the billable-hour grind, equity demands, or endless business development, the Wyoming Attorney General's Office offers a prestigious and fulfilling alternative. Step into a leadership position where your experience drives state agency advice, guides complex litigation, and mentors the next generation of talented lawyers—all backed by predictable hours and a high quality of life.
As a Managing Attorney in our Civil Division, you will serve as a section supervisor leading a dedicated team of assistant attorneys general and support staff. You will oversee high-stakes legal counsel to state agencies, manage major trial and appellate litigation, and tackle complex administrative, regulatory, and legislative issues affecting Wyoming. Working in close collaboration with the Division Deputy and agency leaders, you will shape legal strategy on high-profile matters that directly impact the state.
Why Lead in the Civil Division?
- Executive Leadership & Mentorship: Manage, direct, and cultivate a team of attorneys and a paralegal. You will guide case strategy, assign workloads, and foster a collaborative environment without the pressure of marketing to potential clients or firm politics.
- High-Impact, Complex Practice: Handle complex trial and appellate cases, advise agency executives, review administrative rules, and evaluate draft legislation for the Governor's Office and state agencies.
- Unmatched Quality of Life & Total Rewards: Leave billable hours and financial quotas behind. Enjoy an executive legal career supported by a comprehensive public benefits package—including strong retirement/pension contributions, deferred compensation options, generous paid leave, and reliable, predictable working hours.
If you are an experienced litigator and manager ready to apply your expertise to meaningful public service, we encourage you to apply. Review the position qualifications below and submit your application today.
Working for the State of Wyoming offers more than a paycheck. Our total compensation package includes:
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid vacation, sick leave, FMLA, and holidays
- Retirement - Pension and 457B plans that help you build a secure future
- Flexible schedules and work-life balance options
- Meaningful work that makes a difference for Wyoming communities
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Human Resources Contact: Jennifer Erickson (307) 275-1460 jennifer.erickson1@wyo.gov
Essential Functions: The listed functions are illustrative only and are not intended to describe every function performed at the job level.
- Provide legal advice to the various agencies within the State of Wyoming on a day-to-day basis.
- Supervise and manage the attorneys and paralegals in the section, including assigning cases and monitoring workload.
- Review and advise agency personnel in responses to inquiries, complaints, and other communications.
- Conduct legal and other research.
- Present legal conclusions and advice in various formats, including legal documents, oral presentations, and formal and informal legal opinions.
- Handle appeals of various matters.
- Draft legal documents, including complaints, answers, memoranda of law, briefs, and discovery, and draft and edit agency rules.
- Consult with the division deputy on legal strategic decisions on cases.
- Confer and collaborate with other attorneys to formulate plans, policies, or strategies.
- Provide input on case assignments.
- Use specialized legal skills, knowledge, and experience to plan actions, devise strategies, resolve problems, and formulate legal questions, explanations, positions, and responses.
- Review administrative rules and regulations.
- Advise agency clients about relevant statutes and administrative procedures.
- Receive and provide training necessary to stay up to date on all aspects of relevant law.
- Provide assistance to clients and other staff attorneys with legal questions.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Agency Requirements/**agency Requirements:
- The online application system will require you to provide a significant amount of information during the application process. The system also allows you to attach additional electronic documents.
- All applicants must provide the following as part of the application process:
- Professional resume
- References
- Recent writing sample
- Law school transcript
- Cover letter explaining your interest in the position
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
The following categories of knowledge, skill, and ability are preferred:
- Knowledge of substantive and procedural law of state and federal courts and administrative agencies.
- Knowledge of the technical requirements of the law of evidence and procedure.
- Knowledge of political and legislative processes.
- Knowledge of statutory requirements affecting the conduct of public business by state agency clients.
- Knowledge of trial and appellate practice, administrative law, and civil procedure.
- Skill in legal research, including drafting legal memoranda and briefs, presenting results and conclusions in an advocate's position.
- Skill in organizing ideas and legal principles in clear and concise oral and written presentations.
- Skill in communicating facts, theories, and arguments to people of varying educational, social, and economic backgrounds.
- Skill in assessing legal strengths and weaknesses of the client's position and negotiating or litigating relative merits.
- Skill in public speaking and case presentation.
- Skill in writing clearly and concisely.
- Ability to anticipate problems and prepare for them.
- Ability to isolate and organize multiple issues and present each clearly.
- Ability to relate factual situations to personnel and licensing policies under the statutory guidelines.
- Ability to ask questions, discuss legal issues, and talk with people.
- Ability to manage large amounts of information and analyze for legal impact.
- Ability to organize ideas and legal principles in clear and concise oral and written presentations.
- Ability to locate authorities, assimilate, and reason from related authorities.
- Ability to litigate civil actions and take them through appeal, if necessary.
- Ability to prioritize and re-prioritize tasks as necessary.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education:
Juris Doctorate
Experience:
7+ years of relevant legal experience
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Requires membership in the State Bar as an attorney qualified to practice law in this state.
Necessary Special Requirements:
Physical Working Conditions:
- Desk work
- Ability to travel
Notes:
- FLSA: Exempt
- This position is at-will and is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the Attorney General (W.S. 9-1-608)
- Salary is commensurate with relevant legal experience.
- Those with experience or interest in civil litigation are encouraged to apply.
- Successful applicants are required to pass a criminal background investigation.
Supplemental Information:
015-Attorney General - Civil Division
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The State of Wyoming is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively supports the ADA and reasonably accommodates qualified applicants with disabilities.
Class Specifications are subject to change, please refer to the A & I HRD Website to ensure that you have the most recent version.
Human Resources Contact: Jennifer Erickson (307) 275-1460 jennifer.erickson1@wyo.gov