Supervising Attorney - DCA III/IV in Los Angeles, California at Los Angeles City Attorney's Office (CA)

The Public Rights Branch pursues civil enforcement matters, including complex, high impact matters, focused on a variety of areas including unfair business and housing practices, wage theft, environmental, consumer protection, nuisance abatement and cannabis regulation. The Branch uses a variety of statutory authorities, including the Unfair Competition Law, the False Advertising Law, the Public Nuisance Law and various Health & Safety regulations. The Branch also pursues False Claims Act claims on behalf of the City.

The primary responsibilities of the attorney selected for this position will be to serve as a supervisor in the Branch on complex, high impact and consumer protection matters, and to actively litigate such matters. The attorney will also assist with supervising and litigating other Branch litigation matters, and handling other tasks, as assigned by the Branch Chief.

• Licensed to practice law in all courts in the State of California;
• Demonstrated ability to supervise other attorneys, including junior attorneys, on high impact and consumer protection litigation matters;
• Minimum ten (10) years substantive civil litigation and trial experience, including experience drafting and filing civil complaints, pursuing material evidence through civil discovery or pre-litigation investigations, litigating cutting edge legal issues, engaging in multi-party settlement negotiations, and trying complex cases;
• Demonstrated ability to litigate high impact matters and substantial knowledge of consumer protection investigations and litigation;
• Experience litigating document intensive matters that require the use of eDiscovery platforms such as Relativity;
• Experience working with governmental agencies, elected officials, public officials, and individual citizens;
• Demonstrated high-level written and oral communication skills;
• Strong analytical and strategic skills;
• Substantial experience taking and defending depositions and drafting and arguing dispositive motions; and
• Strong desire to serve the public interest.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience investigating and litigating other subject matters handled by the Public Rights Branch;
• Experience managing outside counsel.

Writing Sample

Candidates are required to submit two writing samples that they personally have authored in the last two years.