Attorney II (Litigation)

Salary\: $73,554 - $110,344

Position Grade\: 217G

Department\: City Counselor’s Office

Job Type\: Full-Time

Examination Number\: EX1588

Location\: Downtown - St. Louis, MO

Incumbents in this position handle moderately complex litigation work. The City Counselor’s Office represents the City in many types of civil litigation. Litigation attorney positions are housed in the office’s Litigation Unit, Affirmative Litigation Section and Employment Units.

Work includes preparation of written discovery, motions, and briefs; taking and defending depositions; representing the City in legal proceedings before state and federal courts as well as administrative bodies; and providing legal advice to City departments, Appointing Authorities, and employees or officials.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities\:

● Performs moderately complex legal research and writing.

● Provides legal advice and representation on a wide variety of legal matters to boards, commissions, officials, departments, and employees under general supervision.

● Handles civil litigation at the trial and appellate levels in both state court and federal court under general supervision.

● Prepares written discovery, takes and defends depositions, and argues motions under general supervision.

● Prepares for trials before judges and juries, argues motions, and participates in all phases of trials.

● Handles other assignments received directly from the Deputy City Counselor or an Attorney Manager.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

● Knowledge of the administrative review process as well as civil rights, equity, general tort, and personal injury.

● Data Utilization\: Requires the ability to perform mid to upper-level data analysis including the ability to coordinate, strategize, systematize and correlate, using discretion in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations within an organizational framework. Requires the ability to implement decisions based on such data, and overseeing the execution of these decisions.

● Human Interaction\: Requires the ability to apply principles of negotiation within the context of legal guidelines.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use\: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a computer, calculator, copy and fax machines, and materials used in performing essential functions.

● Verbal Aptitude\: Requires the ability to utilize reference, descriptive, consulting, design and advisory data and information such as legal briefs and opinions, statutes and ordinances, contracts and legal research material.

● Mathematical Aptitude\: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; ability to calculate percentages and decimals and may use basic algebra.

● Functional Reasoning\: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or synthesis functions involving planning and directing of interrelated activities or multiple departments. Ability to deal with several concrete and abstract variables in working out approaches to major problems.

● Situational Reasoning\: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.

● Environmental Factors\: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.

● Physical Requirements\: Tasks require the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work. Tasks may involve extended periods of visual concentration at a keyboard or workstation.

● Sensory Requirements\: Requires the ability to recognize and identify individual characteristics of colors, shapes, and sounds, associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks.