Closing Date: 2nd May, 2024
Description:
General Job InformationJob Summary:
Located in the nation's capital, The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is the chief legal office of the District of Columbia. OAG enforces the District's laws, works to protect, and defend D.C. residents, and provides the highest level of independent legal advice and guidance to District of Columbia government agencies. The Civil Litigation Division of the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia is seeking a Section Chief for Section I.
The Civil Litigation Division defends the District of Columbia, including District agencies, officers, and employees, in civil lawsuits filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking monetary damages, equitable remedies, and other relief.
The Section Chief will work under the supervision of CLD's Deputy Attorney General and two Assistant Deputy Attorneys General. The Section Chief will directly supervise approximately nine (9) line attorneys and three (3) support staff.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensuring proper case assignment and case transfers to and coverage by AAGs to meet court, mediation, and other schedules or deadlines.
- Reviewing and approving pleadings, motions, memoranda, discovery and correspondence.
- Evaluating cases for settlement purposes and authorizing or recommending settlement amounts.
- Monitoring compliance of AAGs and staff with the Attorney General's Performance Contract requirements, including response to contacts within 24 hours.
- Reviewing litigation outcomes and making timely recommendations where appellate review is needed.
- Attending management meetings with the Deputy Attorney General and others at the Office of the Attorney General as requested, as well as attend such management and other specific meetings with District agencies, their units, or personnel as necessary or requested.
- Assisting in interviewing, reviewing, evaluating, and, where necessary, disciplining AAGs and staff, in accordance with D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct and OAG standards and policies.
- Maintaining requisite legal, management, inter-agency, human relations, and management-labor knowledge and skills; and collecting, maintaining, and disseminating timely, accurate and up-to-date data on the Section's activities.
