Senior Attorney

Overview

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Agency: Business and Professional Regulations

Working Title: SENIOR ATTORNEY -

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND TOBACCO LEGAL UNIT
SENIOR ATTORNEY
Position Number:

Open Competitive

Our Organization and Mission:

License efficiently. Regulate fairly. Florida counts on the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) to ensure important matters are handled well. Responsibilities range from ensuring the safety of food service, maintaining the integrity of real estate transactions, furthering the transparency of condominium governance, and overseeing the qualifications of licensure that ensure work requiring a skilled professional is performed safely and sufficiently.

DBPR’s stakeholders include these professionals and their customers alike.

Under the direction of Secretary Melanie S. Griffin, DBPR oversees many of Florida’s professions and industries in the areas above, and many more which can be seen on our website:

The senior attorney position is responsible for litigation of enforcement actions related to Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco regulation.

• Provides training and guidance to attorneys, OPS personnel within the Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco Legal Unit;
• Evaluates investigative reports and evidence;
• Drafts and issues subpoenas;
• Negotiates settlements;
• Drafts pleadings, complaints, motions, notices, and orders;
• Witness preparation;
• Takes and defends depositions;
• Initiates and responds to discovery;
• Prosecutes and defends enforcement cases and rule challenges before the Division of Administrative Hearings;
• Prosecutes and defends final orders, emergency suspension orders, declaratory statements, rule waivers, and various cases in circuit courts;
• Files and answers foreclosure cases;
• Files claims and intervenes in bankruptcy proceedings and federal actions as requested by the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco;
• Drafts, reviews, edits, and evaluates proposed rule packages;
• Responds to Joint Administrative Procedures Committee correspondence;
• Implements agency policy;
• Responds to consumer inquiries in writing and verbally.

• Ability to make oral presentations and litigate;
• Ability to communicate points of law and regulatory policy persuasively and concisely;
• Ability to draft legal documents;
• Ability to manage multiple legal cases;
• Ability to work independently and in group and team settings;
• Ability to utilize problem solving techniques;
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships;
• Ability to multi-task;
• Ability to meet competing deadlines;
• Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments;
• Ability to travel;
• Ability to recognize and act on emerging issues and shifting priorities.

Preference: Knowledge of Chapters 120, 210, 561-565 Florida Statutes.

• Membership in good standing with The Florida Bar; and
• At least two years of experience in the practice of law; and
• Valid Driver's License.

“Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State’s total compensation package for employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits including:

• State of Florida retirement package: 3% employee contribution required.
• Nine annual paid holidays and one personal holiday
• Ability to earn up to 104 hours of paid annual leave annually as a new employee with the State of Florida
• Ability to earn up to 104 hours of paid sick leave annually.
• The State of Florida offers health insurance coverage (i.e. individual and family coverage) to eligible employees.
• The State of Florida provides a $25,000 life insurance policy to eligible employees.
• Additional supplemental insurance policies are available for dental, vision, hospital supplement, cancer, etc.
• Tax deferred medical and childcare reimbursement accounts are available.
• Tuition waiver program to attend an approved State of Florida College or University

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