Attorney 4
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Attorney 4
Salary
Depends on Qualifications
Location
Baton Rouge, LA
Job Type
Classified
Job Number
418-211890-KB
Department
DPS-Office of Management & Finance
Opening Date
08/18/2025
Closing Date
8/23/2025 11:59 PM Central
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About this Job
At DPS, PSS, Office of Legal Affairs, our mission is to empower communities and improve lives by delivering responsive, inclusive, and forward-thinking public services. We are proud to serve the people of Louisiana with integrity, innovation, and a deep commitment to equity.
We're looking for attorneys to join our legal division - a proactive, people-focused team working to attract and support the talent that drives our mission forward. The attorney will serve as a senior attorney/legal advisor in the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Public Safety Services, Office of Legal Affairs, and as a specialist in legal areas related to public records law, including, but not limited to, all of Louisiana Title 44, and the Freedom of Information Act
If you're driven, collaborative, and ready to make an impact-this could be the opportunity for you!
Minimum Qualifications
Possession of a current Louisiana license to practice law plus three years of experience as a practicing attorney.
Job Specification
The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be foundhere (https://apps01.civilservice.louisiana.gov/onestopjobinfo/DisplayJobSpec.aspx?JobCode=171470) .
Job Duties and Other Information
Represent a department in highly complex and high-profile litigation before trial and appellate courts and administrative tribunals.
Represent the agency in complex procedural and substantive legal and regulatory proceedings involving multiple scientific, technical, regulatory, and legal issues combined.
To independently conduct evidentiary public hearings on issues pertaining to major program areas.
May serve as lead-worker over attorneys of lower rank. May supervise a lower ranking attorney or an administrative law judge.
Prepares and reviews the preparation and negotiation of contracts, requests for proposal, and other legal documents.
Drafts and reviews the drafting of new legislation.
Advise department officials on their highest profile and complex legal problems.
Serves as chief regional/district legal counsel for a state department/agency/office having program offices, in an assigned geographic region, and is responsible for independently providing highly technical legal direction, advice, assistance, consultation, representation and having a direct influence on the operations of the regional/district program offices.
Position-Specific Details:
Appointment Type: Probational, Promotional, or Job Appointment
Work Schedule:Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday - Friday.
Compensation:This position is eligible for premium pay and is based on years of service with DPS, OLA. The bi-weekly rate for this position is as follows:
Attorney 4 (AS621) - $ 2,480.80
Louisiana is a State as a Model Employer (SAME) that supports the recruitment, hiring, and retention of individuals with disabilities.
Selected Preferred Competencies:
Accepting Direction:The ability to accept and follow directions from those higher in the chain of command.
Communicating Effectively: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas.
Demonstrating Accountability:The ability to accept ownership for your actions, behaviors, performance, and decisions.
Displaying Expertise:The ability to exhibit specialized skills or knowledge gained from experience or training
Following Policies and Procedures: The ability to comply with policies and procedures of the organization as well as State Civil Service rules, and all applicable federal and state laws.
Managing Conflict:The ability to recognize and navigate disagreements in a rational, unbiased, and productive way.
Managing Performance:The ability to direct and to evaluate the work of employees.
Solving Problems:The ability to discover solutions to problems.
Thinking Creatively:The ability to generate ideas, manipulate ideas, and make unconventional connections to develop original approaches.
Thinking Strategically:The ability to generate insights and identify opportunities for future growth of the organization.
How To Apply:
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply"link (https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/louisiana) and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
Information to support your eligibility for the position must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.
For further information about this vacancy, contact:
Department of Public Safety
ATTN: Human Resources/Katy Bradley
P.O. BOX 66614 Baton Rouge, LA. 70896
Email:katy.bradley@la.gov
Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.
As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:
Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/
Parental Leave- Up to six weeks paid parental leave
More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx
Holidays and Leave - State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:
New Year's Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
Mardi Gras,
Good Friday,
Memorial Day,
Independence Day,
Labor Day,
Veteran's Day,
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
*** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor
State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.
Retirement - State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the @type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):
Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your\Retirement\System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system
Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),
Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others
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Phone
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Website
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