Description
The County Counsel's Office is recruiting for a Workers' Compensation Attorney. The position will perform the following duties:
- Analyze complex legal and factual issues.
- Conduct extensive, well-reasoned legal research.
- Communicate, effectively work with, and provide guidance to Risk Management claim partners/adjusters.
- Prepare pleadings including applications, answers and responsive pleadings.
- Draft proposed compromise and release agreements, stipulations with request for awards, and AME/PQME letters.
- Prepare trial briefs and appeals including petitions for reconsideration and writs.
- Take depositions of applicants and cross-examinations of physicians.
- Prepare strategies for resolution with little or no supervision.
- Prepare for hearings including trial, cross-examination, trial exhibits and witnesses with little or no supervision.
- Communicate with the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, witnesses and opposing counsel and maintain a large caseload with little or no supervision.
Requirements
License: Active membership with the California Bar Association.
--AND--
Workers' Compensation Attorney II: Twelve (12) months of experience as a workers' compensation attorney.
Workers' Compensation Attorney III: Thirty (30) months of experience as a workers' compensation attorney.
Workers' Compensation Attorney IV: Forty-eight (48) months of experience as a workers' compensation attorney.
Desired Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have two years of experience working in Workers' Compensation as a member of the State Bar of California. Attorneys that are certified as a Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation Law are highly desirable.
