Deputy City Attorney

• Provides general legal guidance to the Mayor, City council, department heads, and City committees and boards, which includes preparing a variety of legal documents; serves in the City Attorney's absence including, but not limited to, making presentations and providing legal advice during department meetings and various committee meetings (such as Finance and Administration Committee meetings).
• Confers with and, as necessary, advises outside counsel concerning litigation strategy; supervises and mentors in-house staff attorneys concerning litigation, drafting legislation, examination and drafting of contracts and other instruments, and drafting departmental policies; and Prepares cases for hearings and trials.
• Represents the City in litigation proceedings in court, which includes determining procedural avenues for actions; taking 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.
• May perform and examine abstractor and title search reports, evaluates economic feasibility of obtaining title insurance and performs additional services relating to real estate closings including, but not limited to, preparation of deeds, easement agreements and instruments of release; supervise the evaluation of City liens against real property including, but not limited to, liens arising from abatement of overgrown vegetation, debris and unsafe structures.
• Prepares and files legal pleadings, motions, briefs, and related documents.
• Performs other work as required.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Juris Doctorate from an American Bar Association accredited school of law.
• Five (5) years of experience as a practicing attorney, with significant civil litigation (federal and state) experience during those years.

• 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.
• Interview methods and techniques.
• Legal 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.