Assistant City Attorney II
City of Clarksville
- Clarksville, TN
- $82,783-114,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
Essential Functions:
- Provides general legal guidance to the Mayor, City council, department heads, and City committees and boards, including preparing various legal documents.
- Prepares cases for hearings and trials.
- Represents the City in litigation proceedings in court, which includes determining procedural avenues for actions; attending depositions; making strategic and tactical litigation decisions; and/or performing related activities.
- Reviews contracts, deeds, bonds, ordinances, and resolutions to verify appropriateness of terms, conditions, and applicable clauses.
- Prepares and files legal pleadings, motions, briefs, and related documents.
- Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.
- Performs other related work as required.
- Juris Doctorate from an American Bar Association accredited school of law.
- Three (3) to four (4) years of experience as a practicing attorney.
- Tennessee State Law License.
- Legal theory.
- Applicable Federal, State, and local laws, rules, regulations, codes, and/or statutes.
- Contract management principles and practices.
- Court procedures.
- Criminal justice system.
- Interview methods and techniques.
- Research methods.
- Legal document preparation techniques.
- Computers and related software applications.
- Interpreting and applying applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
- Providing sound legal advice.
- Analyzing complex information.
- Conducting legal research.
- Preparing legal documents.
- Applying legal principles to determinations on individual cases and problems.
- Trying cases in court.
- Analyzing, appraising, and organizing facts, evidence, and precedents relevant to assigned cases.
- Using computers and related software applications.
- Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with subordinates, coworkers, supervisor, the public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.
- Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
- Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination sound.
- Mental Acuity: Making rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
- Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
- Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Visual ability 1: sufficient to perform an activity like preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
- Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.