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.
Deputy County Counsel II$114,712.00 - $152,339.20 Annually
Deputy County Counsel III$135,345.60 - $180,128.00 Annually
Deputy County Counsel IV$156,166.40 - $227,843.20 Annually
Minimum Requirements:
License: Active membership with the California Bar Association.
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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.
